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Made in Dagenham

Clip analysis - transcript

Transcript

(TELEVISION CAN BE HEARD IN THE BACKGROUND)

RITA O'GRADY: (WHISPERS) Wake your dad up.

(SON LAUGHS AND THROWS A CUSHION AT HIS DAD)

EDDIE: Oof!

SON: Wake up Dad!

EDDIE: Right, come on you two, pull your finger out, help your mum. Oi! Square eyes, what have I told ya? (EDDIE TURNS OFF T.V.)

DAUGHTER: ‘Ere dad, Martine Clarke's got colour. I've seen it!

EDDIE: Oh Martine Clarke's got colour ‘as she? We'll have to go round her house and watch it after tea then won't we? ‘Er mum will be pleased. (LAUGHS) Look, we'll have colour soon, right once you can rent them.

RITA O'GRADY: Eddie, don't go promising them colour. I ain't even paid for the fridge yet. And the three-piece is still on tick. Now we've got all this unrest at work.

EDDIE: What unrest? Oh (LAUGHS) That? You had a vote Rita; unrest is actually when you come out and strike. (LAUGHS) Blimey! Oh no no no, don't look like that, no, I'm only joking.

RITA O'GRADY: All right.

EDDIE: I'm proud o' ya. We all are aren't we? Sticking to your guns. We had a book going on the shop floor. No one even thought you'd take the vote so yeah good on ya. Well done.

RITA O'GRADY: It ain't just a vote now. I've got a meeting tomorrow. All the bosses and I'm going.

EDDIE: Eh?

RITA O'GRADY: It's all right. I'll plate your tea up in the morning and then if I come back late you can just heat it through. Apparently you go to a Berni Inn on the way there.

EDDIE: Snazzy.

RITA O'GRADY: Innit. (RITA AND CHILDREN LAUGH)