Our UK readers who don’t mind staying up late may want to watch ITV3 tonight, at 12:25. As a part of their Roald Dahl weekend, they are showing Galloping Foxley, as part of “Tales of the Unexpected”.
ITV’s website sums it up thus:
A man is haunted by an unhappy childhood and taunted by school bullies – and a stranger on a train could be responsible for his misery. John Mills and Anthony Steel star.
Like this sort of misery:
When Foxley disappeared I knew he was walking down to the far end of the basin-passage. Foxley always did that. Then, in the distance, but echoing loud among the basins and the tiles, I would hear the noise of his shoes on the stone floor as he started galloping forward, and through my legs I would see him leaping up the two steps into the changing-room and come bounding towards me with his face thrust forward and the cane held high in the air. This was the moment when I shut my eyes and waited for the crack and told myself that whatever happened I must not straighten up.
Anyone who has been properly beaten will tell you that the real pain does not come until about eight or ten seconds after the stroke. The stroke itself is merely a loud crack and a sort of blunt thud against your backside, numbing you completely (I’m told a bullet wound does the same). But later on, oh my heavens, it feels as if someone is laying a red hot poker right across your naked buttocks and it is absolutely impossible to prevent yourself from reaching back and clutching it with your fingers.
“Foxley” is showing seriously late for me, but I don’t know if I can resist staying up for it. This short story is one of my childhood literary experiences responsible for the fact that out of all the flavours of spanking fetish, I’ve ended up with a British boarding school kink. I’ve got to see it on the screen.
Also, I love John Mills.
(Thanks to Gerrard for a heads-up on the TV programming.)
That’d be the very early hours of tomorrow morning (Monday), in case anyone’s confused.
I think I’m right in deducing that the ITV3 channel can also be viewed online for readers outside the UK:
http://www.itv.com/itv3/
I’ve seen it before but can’t remember much other than the train carriage, so perhaps I’ll stay up too, that od figure out how to work the video that has sat there for years never being used!
This why I thank God for sky plus! Was so good, Thanks for metioning it.
Sounds yummy! I must look for the book.
As far as staying up late goes, is there a reason you cannot tape it on a VCR or DVD? We almost NEVER watch TV per se, just tape the shows we want to see, whenever they come on, then watch them in the evening.
Of course, if your VCR happens to be flashing 12:00 after owning it for several years, I quite understand the problem .
Hugs,
Hermione
Our VCR died a while ago, and we never found a suitable replacement, so staying up it is…
It takes spmething to drag me away from the NFL on a Sunday night/Monday morning, but this is a topper for that.
I guess it’s those cold Canadian winters that force us to look for indoor entertainment, but we actually have 3 VCRs, and two are programmed to record several programs weekly. Coronation Street Omnibus, for instance, which is on while I’m at church. The third’s a backup.
But then you have loads more interesting recreational events coming up, what with those new canes and all. Maybe we will too when global warming hits us LOL.
Haron explains that our VCR has died. She is being generous. We’d had it five years, and I still didn’t know how to programme it… (I’d just about mastered the art of playing back videos that were… ahem… interesting to readers here. But recording things? Nah!)
PVR’d and DVD’d successfully….eventually. Actually, even if that sounds smug, it was a shambles. I had 4 remote controls in front of me at one stage, and I don’t know what 80% of the buttons do on 2 of them! And it took 3 discs to get a working version. Now I remember why I don’t put too much stuff to DVD
Plus I bet I don’t watch it again until its on tv.
thanks for the tip off – would have missed it. And who says I only visit here for the buzz?
great site by the way
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