When you pressed the red button in the driver’s cab a cheery tune crackled out from a speaker at the back. And author Tony Macaulay is hopeful that a young unknown talent from the west of the city will rise to the challenge and star in the show. He has given talks at Lehigh University and DeSales University in Pennsylvania, the University of Denver, Colorado, the University of Notre Dame and Goshen College in Indiana and Pepperdine University, University of California, Irvine, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and California State University, Dominguez Hills in California. The fizzy drinks could occasionally be problematic because they often exploded on opening due to all the movement going over potholes where buses had burnt, but most of the other merchandise was warm, fresh, inviting and relatively inert. Have had a silver one of these for years - following a kitchen upgrade thought I'd brighten things a bit with a lime green one.

The Breadboy keeps bread fresh with the use of it Wesco's unique back ventilation holes that allows for air circulation. While Paperboy was set in 1975 when the author had just turned 12 and had bagged himself a new job selling the Belfast Telegraph, Breadboy takes place in 1977. When Breadboy Tony Macaulay was growing up on the Shankill in the 70s, the Troubles were ever-present and times were hard. And the show ends, as it should, with a look towards the future when teenagers won't have a troubled backdrop. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Yer man’s an awful good big crater,’ explained my mother, ‘Sure he’s in the Black as well as the Orange. There was tragedy - Mr Oliver's death, slightly lost in the action onstage - and there was naturally comedy too as Macaulay has a gift for observational humour. Inevitably I sometimes pressed the wrong button or the provos pressed a very different button to blow up the electricity sub-station and the radio alarm didn’t go off at all.

Leslie hadn’t asked for a written reference from my previous employer, Oul’ Mac, the newsagent, which was lucky because it might have presented a difficulty. The adventures of a Belfast Breadboy prove to be an uplifting tale irish Examiner Weekend Breadboy delivers Antrim Guardian a tale of courage, optimism, and simple niceness Belfast Telegraph Breadboy is an affectionately-drawn memoir, in many ways a cultural survey of the era, part personal narrative, part historical record. The musical version of Paperboy had two sell-out runs at the Lyric Theatre in the summers of 2018 and 2019 and the Breadboy production is set to run at the same venue from July 28 to July 31, 2022.British Music Youth Theatre is on the look-out for someone to play the lead role as well as other parts and Macaulay says he hopes a raw talent from the area he grew up in makes use of the golden opportunity. This theatre production has received support from the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council which aims to promote a pluralist society characterised by equity, respect for diversity, and recognition of interdependence. The Bee Gees fill the airwaves, there's Smash and fishfingers on the table for tea, and Tony's love of peace and pets is soon rivalled by his interest in parallel universes and punk . My mind often wandered towards more exciting preoccupations like music and movies and outer space and Judy Carlton. He had thin brown hair combed to the side with Brylcreem and very clear white skin and rosy cheeks like a Free Presbyterian.

Guaranteed to bring back a flood of childhood memories, this wonderful memoir is touching, warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and steeped in the atmosphere of the 1970s. It is hoped that Paperboy might yet still get to tour the States, where there is much interest in Belfast and the stories of ordinary people living through strife.There were some nice moments and songs, though, in this rites of passage tale of the teenager working the Ormo bread van. The Wesco Breadboy classic design is made from a high-quality powder coated steel body with an attractive chrome handle and a chrome base. On a busy day, or if there was a suspected hijacker on the street, it could reach speeds of up to 25 mph. I wondered if our shared love of bread provided a common bond, which held out some hope for peace in the future.