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Front Row: Mackenzie Crook, Collaborative board games, Janey Godley, Zing Tsjeng's party choice

Mackenzie Crook, Collaborative board games, Janey Godley, Zing Tsjeng's party choice

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Mackenzie Crook as Worzel Gummidge, cooperative board games, Janey Godley's video short.

Mackenzie Crook discusses taking on the character of Worzel Gummidge, best board games to play collaboratively, Janey Godley's video short for the National Theatre of Scotland.

Mackenzie Crook talks about Saucy Nancy, the latest episode in his festive revivals of the children’s TV series Worzel Gummidge, which originally aired in the late 1970s. Saucy Nancy sees the children visit a scrapyard, where they meet Worzel's old friend Saucy Nancy. She's a carved ship’s figurehead, and wants their help to get back to the sea. 

As tensions run high in houses all over the country where people are cooped up over the Christmas period, writer and board gamer Natasha Hodgson reveals the world of cooperative board games: games where the players work together towards a goal, rather than trying to crush or bankrupt your dear mum. With many titles and styles to choose from, are the days of shouting over the Monopoly board over?

In May, comedian Janey Godley was one of the Scottish actors and writers who took part in the National Theatre of Scotland’s project Scenes for Survival. Janey’s video short featured her as a character called Betty whose difficult relationship with her husband came to a head under Lockdown. It was one of the most viewed in the series and led to a follow-up. Now for Christmas and New Year, Janey revisits Betty.

As festive party season is well and truly cancelled this year, Front Row is celebrating the best parties in culture. Today it’s Vice’s Zing Tsjeng on Euphoria and the dark side of teen parties. 
 
Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe 
Producer: Jerome Weatherald

Main image: Mackenzie Crook as Worzel Gummidge 
Image credit: BBC/Leopard Pictures/Amanda Searle

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