Scene: The Ballad of Ben Bagot
The Ballad of Ben Bagot is an episode of the BBC schools TV series Scene from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, covering citizenship for secondary school pupils.
Ben Bagot is 17; bright, charming and attractive, but he has difficulty setting his sights on reality and always makes the wrong decisions for himself and others. Faced with a pregnant girlfriend, he 'chucks' his job in a shoe shop without any future plans.
==From the teacher's notes==
"Like much of Terson's writing the play is superficially a farce and fundamentally a tragedy; it is based on a real person and tries to say that though you are young you can make decisions now that affect your own life, and the lives of others, very deeply." - Scene teacher's notes autumn 1975 p.6.
"The Ballad of Ben Bagot is a familiar story - and the themes of the play are often covered in literature for young adults. The story of the intelligent, thoughtless waster who suddenly finds himself in trouble is well-known, but Peter Terson represents it in a distinctive style." - Scene teachers' notes summer 1994 p.19.
Credits
| Written by | Peter Terson |
In the archive
Exists. This programme is preserved in the BBC archives.
Broadcasts
Also broadcast for a general audience, in the evening on BBC2 as part of a run of Scene dramas in August 1977.
Related programmes
- English: Zigger ZaggerAnother play by Peter Terson produced by BBC schools TV in the 1970s.
Links
- British Film Institute Collections for The Ballad of Ben Bagot
- The Ballad of Ben Bagot on the Internet Movie Database
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