Selected Monologues and Poems

By Olive Sweetman

Monologues and poems in the Lancashire idiom, written with humour and a touch of nostalgia. These work really well when spoken aloud.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Olive Sweetman
• Release date: Jun 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311269690

Olive Sweetman

Olive Sweetman’s interest in monologues and poems began as a 10-year-old schoolgirl during World War 2. At local concerts she would recite well known monologues such as ‘Albert and the Lion’ by Marriott Edgar and famously performed by Stanley Holloway. She then started to write her own and having been born and brought up in Maghull Liverpool she found it natural to write in the Lancashire idiom.After moving to North Wales, Olive served for many years, as a Community Councillor and Youth Leader in Gwernymynydd.In 1981 she was employed by BBC Local Radio based in Mold as an interviewer and presenter on the BBC Radio Clwyd morning programme. Sadly the station no longer exists on air, but there is a tribute website to Radio Clwyd at this address: http://657khz.co.uk/. Olive retired in 1993.

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Selected Monologues

and

Poems

Olive Sweetman

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2014 Olive Sweetman (Text)

Vicki Trowler (Line drawings)

& Ken Sweetman (Photograph)

The Author

Olive Sweetman’s interest in monologues and poems began as a 10-year-old schoolgirl during World War 2. At local concerts she would recite well known monologues such as ‘Albert and the Lion’ by Marriott Edgar and famously performed by Stanley Holloway. She then started to write her own and having been born and brought up in Maghull Liverpool she found it natural to write in the Lancashire idiom.

After moving to North Wales, Olive served for many years, as a Community Councillor and Youth Leader in Gwernymynydd.

In 1981 she was employed by BBC Local Radio based in Mold, as an interviewer and presenter on the BBC Radio Clwyd morning programme. She retired in 1993.

Contents

The Amazing Adventures of the Brown Family

Good Lad Les

The Haunting of Fred Platt

Rosie’s Rescue

The Sad Saga of Annie Fat and Sally Tall

The Last Performance

The Amazing Adventures of the Brown Family

A family lived in Postlethwaite

A northern English town

There was Mother, there was Father

And their young son Bertie Brown.

Quite a normal little family -

Or so you would have thought,

But all their lives were altered

By some breakfast food they bought.

Father wanted cornflakes -

And Mother,' Shreddy Tops'

But Mother, little Bertie wailed,

"I