The Blue Lamp | On the Road in George Dixon’s London
Tonight, The Common Room is on the road.
We’ve left the Little Station on Commercial Street behind and crossed the Atlantic to the streets of West London—the world of Paddington Green, Harrow Road, George Dixon and The Blue Lamp.
Our starting point is the remarkable 1965 BBC Sunday Night Play adaptation of The Blue Lamp, featuring a young Ian McShane.
But the story begins earlier.
In 1950, Ealing Studios released The Blue Lamp, starring Jack Warner as PC George Dixon and a young Dirk Bogarde as Tom Riley.
On the surface, it’s a police story.
Underneath, something much larger is happening…
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