Episode 130 - Ratcatcher (1999)

On this episode, we’re travelling to Glasgow in the 1970’s as we
look at the directorial debut from Lynne Ramsay and essential
Scottish viewing, Ratcatcher. 12-year-old James Gillespie lives
on a Glasgow housing estate during the 1973 refuse collectors’
strike. After James’ friend falls into a canal and drowns, James
becomes increasingly withdrawn and racked with guilt.


In the news we get our best leather waistcoats and chaps on to
meet the most miserable landlord in Scotland, buy some finest
Scottish tea from Mr. Tea, aka Tetley Tam, debate the past life
of a flag bearing child in the American Civil War and chuckle at
the latest Scottish words to be added to the Oxford English
Dictionary.


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