{"id":9068,"date":"2021-11-19T07:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=9068"},"modified":"2021-11-19T07:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:42:32","slug":"dr-fergos-last-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/11\/19\/dr-fergos-last-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Fergo&#8217;s Last Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popping up on eBay, the programme for the Arthur Berry play <em>Dr. Fergo&#8217;s Last Passion<\/em> (aka <em>Doctor Fergo&#8217;s Last Passion<\/em>) from 1979, later followed by <em>Dr.  Fergo Rides Again<\/em> in 1982. New to me. Described as &#8220;a rude ballad opera&#8221; with comedic songs, by a snippet from one old paywalled newspaper review. It has a local Potteries setting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/1979-fergos-lastpassion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/1979-fergos-lastpassion.jpg?w=489\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9070\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regrettably there never seems to have been a recording or a radio version. Presumably the scripts and staging directions are still available. Might it then be revived? Possibly it would be too bawdy and &#8216;incorrect&#8217; for our censorious times, but perhaps it could be done as a full-cast audio-only recording?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popping up on eBay, the programme for the Arthur Berry play Dr. Fergo&#8217;s Last Passion (aka Doctor Fergo&#8217;s Last Passion) from 1979, later followed by Dr. Fergo Rides Again in 1982. New to me. Described as &#8220;a rude ballad opera&#8221; with comedic songs, by a snippet from one old paywalled newspaper review. It has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}