The Skinny
Cerebral Manchester-based comic Sean Morley unearths a little-known feminist gem Feature by Sean Morley | 12 Apr 2021
I read about
The Rag Trade years ago. A 1960s workplace sitcom about female textile workers with the punchline that they’re always going on strike. It sounds interesting! It sounds risky! Sometimes when delving too far back in the archives of 20th century comedy the best you can hope for is an artifact best viewed with the humorless curiosity of an archaeologist meticulously brushing silt off a cacked glob of bronze, and the worst is a low-res bigotry winceathon.
In researching this article I watched the original 1961 series of