A young man comes of age in the provincial music hall just before the outbreak of the First World War.

It was set in a similar milieu to Priestley's earlier work The Good Companions.

In 1986 it was adapted into a television series of the same name starring Colin Firth, John Castle, Laurence Olivier.

[1] A BBC radio dramatisation by Bert Coules starring Tom Baker as Nick Ollanton was first broadcast in 1994, most recently repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra in May 2020.

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