Ridley Road (2021)

Watchseries; The only reason why this has a very low rating is the people voting would have been on the side of the fascists.

They should take a long hard look at themselves.

And they should watch the programme in full so they can reflect.

The only reason why this has a very low rating is the people voting would have been on the side of the fascists.

They should take a long hard look at themselves.

And they should watch the programme in full so they can reflect.

Ridley Road watchseries. A disproportionate amount of low scores, not based on the quality of story or acting but perhaps because of an uncomfortable feeling while watching.

People in meetings saying 'we want our country back' portrayed as the bad guys. How can this be?

Important story- resonates with the current political climate. Reinforces how dangerous this mindset can be.

Before I start I should emphasise that the purpose of the BBC should be to entertain and inform and not to indoctrinate. Ridley Road does neither of the former and plenty of the latter.

Formulaic, predictable and funded by license payer's money, it's yet another in the stable of BBC programming aimed to berate the viewer on racism, fascism and nasty Nazis. Remember David Edgar's 'Destiny'? This is very similar.

Many of those who gave this a low score did so because it's crap, to put it in the vernacular, and not because of any political viewpoint or 'racism'. Jordan's NSM, a spawn of his earlier White Defence League, were small and insignificant but they aroused the ire of the so called '62 Group', a gang of Zionist thugs associated with East End London gangsters such as Jack 'Spot' Comer and the paedophile pimp Soho cafe owner Harry Bidney. I wonder if these two less than illustrious characters will appear in future episodes of this tripe? Fat chance!

I'm interested to see who will play Francoise Dior and John Tyndall. That's as far as my interest goes.

Abolish the license fee now.

In 1960 I was 11 years old and living in Manchester. My mother was a great seamstress and we would go into the city centre to buy materials, in and around Stevenson's Square. That was my first introduction to a Jewish community. I asked many questions such as "What is a Jew?", "What is the Jewish religion?," and "Why are there so many tailors & fabric shops in the area?. My mother explained about coming to Britain for safety and then told me about the Holocaust. It was aweful to learn about, but very necessary. My father worked for Home Office Approved Schools at that time and was full of admiration, that there was only one Jewish approved school in the country, and that was never full. The Jews, he said, look after their own and family was everything. I admired that too and wished I'd come from a Jewish community. "Ridley Road" has taught me some uncomfortable truths, that although I thought 'normal' people didn't judge by colour, creed or sexual orientation - and I still think that, nevertheless old prejudices were dangerously held whilst I lived in ignorance. At 72 maybe I still do. Everyone should watch this series. Food for uncomfortable thought indeed.

Having been brought up about 500 yds from Ridley Rd, I looked forward to seeing this. Having seen the first episode, I am reminded of the wise words of Mark Twain, "The difference between truth and fiction, is that fiction has to be believable. This was not.

I am old enough to remember both Colin Jordan and Oswald Mosley, and in particular, the 1962 "visit" by the latter to Ridley Rd in 1962. This ended within minutes with Mosley receiving a police escort to get him out of the area. I'm not certain, but If that was not his last public appearance, it must have been close to it.

What I don't recall from that period, was that there was a Dalston office of Mossad operating in the area. I know that may seem harsh, but the problem I have with it, is that even as "Faction", it doesn't work for me. When it's gets as specific as naming a real place and a real date, you'd expect to see bits that you can recognise as being "based on a true story". But so far, I've seen nothing of the sort. This bears no resemblance to my recollections of Ridley Road and events in 1962.

I think the writing and plot is weak, unconvincing and unbelievable. No problems with the set, scenery and the use of archive film of street scenes of the period are great. The performances are good too but it it ends there. The plot is thin, superficial and full of holes and appears to be lossely constructed to present set scenes.