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'Let's get this straight once and for all. I'm holding this shovel. They've employed me to do the job and they're paying me when it's done. I've got a job and you haven't. I'm working and you're watching - and now you're offering me a partnership in my own job?'

Billy is a casual labourer who becomes the target of the schemes of the parasitic Darkly.

Darkly comic tale written by Barry Hines.

Bill ……. Arthur Lowe
Darkly ……. Ronald Baddiley

Producer: Alfred Bradley

First broadcast on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Third Programme in August 1963.

Barry Hines was to later write the novel 'A Kestrel For A Knave' - filmed for the cinema by Ken Loach as 'Kes'.