Was the Country Blues style a deliberate choice for the intended audience?
I knew that Ralph had taken his stage name from Blind Willie McTell. Knowing that there were photographs of Willie and other blues originals in a book I had – ‘Country Blues’ by Sam Charters, I asked him if he fancied having them copied and stuck up in the set. He did! The idea was, this was Ralph’s room in the Post Office and these were his own photographs. Interestingly many of the photographs had been autographed – but all in the same hand! 4. Ralph has recently announced that he has now reissued all his back-catalogue on CD – yet ‘Tickle’ remains a glaring omission in this format. Do the tapes of the show still exist? Is there any chance of them appearing on DVD? I can’t help you with this. I suspect that tapes of the shows do exist but they may well be in a format that is not compatible with modern technology. Granada are very protective with any programme material. Although I actually wrote scripts for most of the programmes that I worked on I cannot access any of them! 5. Home v
