When is bert and dickie on bbc

See all. Item Information Condition:. Sign in to check out Check out as guest. The item you've selected was not added to your cart. Add to Watchlist Unwatch. Watch list is full.

Last item available. This amount is subject to change until you make payment. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program terms and conditions - opens in a new window or tab. Located in:. McMinnville, Oregon, United States. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program terms and conditions - opens in a new window or tab This amount includes applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees. Estimated between Mon. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods.

Seller does not accept returns See details. See payment details. Special financing available. Any international shipping and import charges are paid in part to Pitney Bowes Inc. Learn More - opens in a new window or tab International shipping and import charges paid to Pitney Bowes Inc. Learn More - opens in a new window or tab Any international shipping and import charges are paid in part to Pitney Bowes Inc.

Learn More - opens in a new window or tab Any international shipping is paid in part to Pitney Bowes Inc. Learn More - opens in a new window or tab. Add to cart to save with this special offer. If you Buy It Now, you'll only be purchasing this item. If you'd like to get the additional items you've selected to qualify for this offer, close this window and add these items to your cart. Buy only this item Close this window.

Report item - opens in a new window or tab. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Item specifics. Good: An item in used but good condition. May have minor damage to jewel case including scuffs or Read more about the condition Good: An item in used but good condition.

In , just three years after the end of WW2, London is half-destroyed and its people are starving. Thus the "Austerity Olympics" were born, and the film portrays just what was achieved with a "make do and mend" post-war mentality.

Bert and Dickie also begin to realise that they share more in common than they ever would have expected. Both have the same determination and drive and, on a personal level, both have been shaped by complex relationships with their fathers. As they realise that this is it - their big opportunity - they finally start to work together. Set against the backdrop of a country on its knees, Bert and Dickie is an uplifting, warm-hearted and celebratory story about how two men rose above distinctions of birth and class to become Olympic gold medallists - and how London did pull off a brilliant and triumphant Games.

Latest Olympic and Paralympic news, sport, culture, torch relay, video and audio. Main content. This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer. Bert and Dickie. Show more. Show less. Last on.

Fri 27 Jul They were thrown into the boat together with only six weeks to prepare for victory. So this was a drama partly about rowing — sculling, to be specific, as both chaps pulled two oars each — but also about the new postwar dispensation in which the classes were no longer confined to their own lanes like the modern motorist in London. Scriptwriter William Ivory asked every evailable fact to carry the freight expected of it.

Thus young man on the make Bushnell Matt Smith , eager to make his way forward or technically, backwards as a single sculler was gobbily narked to be put in a pair, while blue-blooded lunk Dickie Burnell Sam Hoare was selected more on entitlement than merit. Inside the boat, in short, there was a battle between the silver spoon and the chip on the shoulder.

The result was stirring but - unlike actual sport with its known unknowns - deeply unsurprising. Now let the real sitting down begin. Follow JasperRees on Twitter. View previous newsletters. Skip to main content.