This is a green and pleasant land and we don't want this

Consultation closed today for a proposed extension to oil drilling at the Broadford Bridge site near Billingshurst in West Sussex. Campaigners,
led by Actors James Bolam and Sue Jameson, rallied outside West Sussex County Hall and handed in a giant postcard from objectors to WSCC Director of Economy, Infrastructure and Environment Lee Harris. The actors called on people to object before it is too late:

[@stephenholmes1036]

When the boat comes in was magnificent

[@josephd548]

James and Susan are truly talented actors with good principles to match. God bless them both x

[@glamdolly30]

Good principles? It's obvious you only 'know' them through a TV screen!

[@margolenney6032]

Mmm ask her about her first child!

[@edgarlee2802]

@@margolenney6032 Exactly.

[@trevorpettingill4871]

SHOULD HAVE HAD A SIMILAR DEVOTION TO RODNEY BEWS

[@gunner678]

Get your hammer out Jack Ford.......well spoken, none of us do enough. Protest, protest, protest!

[@richardoliver2930]

James Bolam and Rodney Bewes you cant say one name without they had something special together

[@MarkHarrison733]

Bolam hated Bewes.

[@keyfizz]

It's a wonder they didn't blame Rodney Bewes for it .....

[@billdennis3681]

well done to bring this to the press

[@russtill403]

both fantastic actors,thankyou both.

[@AbandonEarth911]

When the boat comes in a wonderful series about the hard life in the north/east after the first world war. Nice to see Jack ford and Jessie seaton.

[@williamanderson5437]

'Sergeant Jack Ford and Jessie Seaton' please - by far the best period drama ever on television, brilliant scripts and so well acted.

[@chrisbarry7836]

Wonderful series just started watching it again

[@marcdrye8645]

Jack and jessie reunited lovely to see

[@sandismall8559]

Good luck bonnie lad.

[@PC-lu3zf]

He was brilliant as evil Dr Shipman he played it really well.

[@Stark238]

​@ikedyson6426before new tricks, the full show is on KZbin

[@mattsta1964]

Sue Jameson was an uberbabe when she was young!

[@gillkidman6243]

Wake up to this people, this is so scary.

[@algie-t2w]

Since the 1960s and 1970s local authorities and spivs have made a midden of our country.

[@sharpear1031]

God bless them.

[@priyawije4316]

OMG Susan Jameson and James bolham you two were the actors in my childhood show grandpa in my pocket however I discovered this show again this year. James bolham you played the titular grandpa in Jason mason’s pocket himself. And you Susan Jameson, you have played great aunt Loretta who won’t say the word toilet out loud because you think the word “toilet” out loud and you always stub your toe as great aunt lorettan lucky for you Jason mason provides you a pack of peas to heal your foot up.

[@jamesunsworth6865]

Jimmy, in spite of my comments about you. I stand by my original comments. (A) you have brought pleasure to millions of people, like me in the sixties, seventies, eighties,and nineties . 25 years ago I attended a lecture on “ Climate Change “ in the then Liverpool Polytechnic School. Now known as the John Moore’s University. EVERYTHING that guy said has come true. Three words were added to my lexicon, “ Extreme Weather Events. “I saw with my own eyes, the German attitude to Climate Change 50 years ago. They already had a great sense of what we were about to experience. As a consequence were doing something about it. I am lucky to live very near to Snowdonia National Park. WHY do people lust after “ things “ which at best give you transient pleasure. Then they want another “ thing “ MADNESS. I just thank God I am a simple guy, Rucksack on his back, and I am in Nature, which I NEVER tire of. Finally we live in a small overcrowded Island, we are only the Custdodions of it. It’s during our tenure we have a DUTY to pass it on in good order.

[@gunner678]

Great comment 👍

[@jamesunsworth6865]

My favourite actor, I was in the North East, just when Falkland War was on. I am your side re Climate Change, Bonny Lad/ Lass

[@stephenhowlett6345]

This country is wrecked the roads are so clogged it's horrendous, you can't even find a lane that's now not like a motorway there's so many cars, the air must be almost unbreathable and it's getting even worse.

[@jacksugden8190]

First saw Sue in Bergerac, in an episode of the Gerry Anderson sci-go series U.F.O. The Sound of Silence.

[@andipandi5641]

i never expected a sequel to when the boat comes in with jack and jessie continuing to campaign for some worthy cause ??

[@Puppy-ew4be]

"They give their version" - yes, just like James did over his rift with Rodney Bewes.

[@longasaya]

So, tell us precisely what you know about that rift that we don't know about. Facts, please, not speculation.

[@gerardmackay8909]

@@longasaya it’s not hard to access footage from Rodney Bewes himself that Bolam permanently ostracised him after a 1976 interview by Bewes that Bolam felt was indiscreet. The vendetta was relentless and spiteful to the extent that Bolam refused ever to allow repeats of The Likely Lads which would have greatly eased financial pressure on Bewes who, unlike Bolam, never made it big and struggled to manage in his later years. Bolam is a cantankerous piece of work but this environmental campaigning certainly is laudable (and his wife Susan is a delightful lady who is every bit as sincere as this clip would suggest).

[@MarkHarrison733]

@@gerardmackay8909 Bolam did not have the ability to block repeats.

[@gerardmackay8909]

@@MarkHarrison733 your source is definitive Mark mine speculative?

[@MarkHarrison733]

@@gerardmackay8909 In interviews in his final years Rodney Bewes would often claim that James Bolam had vetoed repeats of the series. The reality, however, was that, since the series finished its run in 1974, episodes from both versions of the sitcom had been repeated on BBC One or Two in 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004, plus 2013 and 2015, in addition to countless re-runs on the satellite channels, as well as numerous repeats of the BBC radio adaptations, and have remained an option in terms of subsequent mainstream repeats. Bolam said, "How could I do that? I can't stop repeats. A, I get paid for them, which is very nice, and B, there's no way I could do that even if I'd wanted to."

[@alecjefferson1251]

We have not done the ozone in 150 years of using fossil fuels!! Chopping trees rain forest down is main reason. 🇬🇧

[@stevendavidson5700]

James Bolam made his co star in the likely lads life a misery. All on the back of a wrong comment. He made sure his co star never got work again. How Bolam can look at himself in the mirror every morning god only knows. A horrible bitter man.

[@neilconnolly485]

That's a load of rubbish

[@mreddiegdaly]

@@neilconnolly485 I totally agree with you I'm bored sick reading all these negative comments about James Bolam. one would swear he was responsible for all Bewes misfortune. if they have nothing positive to say about James they should keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves.

[@scottfraser8825]

Get your facts straight my friend. What you've said is total rubbish.

[@thedoc4447]

Steven, sad to say but it was Rodney Bewes who started the feud with untrue comments in the papers which later he retracted but unfortunately the damage had been done. It is a shame but James Bolam never forgave him.

[@Willsey]

@@thedoc4447 maybe he did let slip a couple of comments to the press but he apologised and if Bolam had anything about him he would have accepted it. Not cancelled him for life

[@SuperFerdie1965]

What a miserable couple they look. Poor Rodney Bewes.

[@Japan_C2]

They are both hypocritical socialist twats

[@AbandonEarth911]

Yes indeed we all breathe the same polluted air, we all drink the same polluted water. If you are retired actors

[@AbandonEarth911]

If you are retired actors Footballers or coal miners, as long as you care and speak out surely that is what counts.

[@johndocherty9501]

@@SuperFerdie1965 Ooh bad troll attempt mate. Try harder.

[@SuperFerdie1965]

@@johndocherty9501 Infantile comment.

[@errol-ih4jy]

I PREFERRED HIM ON LIKELY LADS, HE TURNED INTO A MIDDLE CLASS GREEN HENPECKED BLOKE, THATS WORSE THAN ANY CLIMATE CHANGE.

[@davidsanderson5918]

"They bend the truth to suit their needs." THE STORY OF THE HUMAN RACE!!

[@sdkjsdfo]

Wow so surprised he speaks so posh

[@MarkHarrison733]

He went to the Central School of Speech and Drama.

[@redfield1007]

Poor Rodney. Couldn't even collect a repeat cheque.

[@dazauto1400]

Shame on you Bolam for that pathetic one sided, 40 Yr feud with Bewes. Sadly the better man went first.

[@dazauto1400]

@@greatwesternproductions2857 Read up on it pal your wrong

[@scottfraser8825]

Absolute garbage. The truth has come out now and far from being the better man as one of the guy's who has already replied to you has said it was in fact Rodney Bewes that was the cause of all the trouble. You and many like you open your mouths without knowing anything about what really happened and you all own James Bolam an apology.

[@chriswatkin5476]

It wasn't just Rodney Bewes who lost out but the rest of the cast.

[@Willsey]

@@scottfraser8825 rubbish. They both look stuck up.

[@futtocks23]

She Abandoned her child because she wanted to concentrate on her acting career, then was not interested when her child wanted a reconciliation

[@stewartkee6115]

futtocks23 like you would fucking know. Stop spreading bullshit you know fuck all about.

[@glamdolly30]

Some people can't handle the truth about supposed celebrities like this miserable pair! If they met Bolam or Jameson they'd soon stop blowing smoke up their wrinkly, overrated arses.

[@williamanderson5437]

@@stewartkee6115 Apparently it's true though, you should learn the real facts before gobbing off. It's up to them how they handle their own private lives.

[@Willsey]

@@glamdolly30 its only because they are tree huggers that they are being supported. Susan Jameson is not a nice person. Sticks out a mile actually

[@paulwalker2401]

I'm sure he use to be married to her

[@karenf1001]

He still is 🥰

[@hmu05366]

Cleanest power is nuclear folks

[@grantross2609]

the ball started rolling with the dawn of man..... and there's no way to stop it !

[@teescottageguyproductions]

It’s grandpa in great aunt Loretta!

[@loungejay8555]

Typical NIMBY's. If the oil company wanted to drill in, say, Sunderland would she be protesting that? ...nah didn't think so!

[@gallowgate68]

First time I have seen this couple outwith their acting roles. By all accounts extremely private off screen so this is strange seeing them interviewed like this. James Bolam is a terrific actor but not so sure he's a terrific person. Don't think he's the kind of guy you can have a pint with down the local which is a shame as his work has been outstanding.

[@jeanwilson5029]

They've been married for ever i wonder if she always talks over him.

[@lordmashie]

I just see Grandpa and Great Aunt Loretta

[@wimlahstockingrobinson7540]

Me too. I love Grandpa in My Pocket.

[@glamdolly30]

That kiddies show they did was embarrassingly bad!

[@lordmashie]

@@glamdolly30 It's treason, then.

[@quietman2672]

Love Terry the character. Hate Bolam for his treatment of Bewes over a trivial matter. Bit of karma here. Me thinks it’s more property devaluation than any climate issues that’s concerning these two .

[@joesmith8701]

the vast majorty of fall outs are over petty shit ven muder is mostly over petty shit dont hate the man for being irational hate his behaviour over that insdent bet uve fallen out with ppl over petty shit

[@williamanderson5437]

Your opinion - You should learn to respect a persons private life before opening your mouth.

[@Willsey]

Can see now why his friendship with Bewes ended. It started when he met Susan. He changed, they both look like they are up themselves

[@husamalom8967]

Grampa in my pocket Great aunt loretta Grampa

[@harveyhudson76]

I suspect this has more to do with a drop in property values than environmental issues?

[@stuclark5081]

In Sue & James’s case ‘no’. They were involved initially in campaigning against Celtique Energie’s proposal to exploratory drill between Wisborough Green & Kirdford. That campaign was successful & after discovering how futile & destructive the process is in small villages around the U.K they decided to ‘continue’ to campaign with other groups against other proposals for unsuitable sites. Don’t forget that hydraulic fracturing in the U.K is merely a ponzi scheme to gain huge investment to artificially inflate the financial attributes of companies portfolios, and the cost............destroying local ecology, endangering the progression & sustainability of flora & fauna, not to mention the corrosion of community cohesion. These cowboys move in, gain investment from non local investors, wreck the beautiful landscape, fail to provide any long term energy needs, then keep investors ‘on the hook’ for the ‘big payoff’ down the road. It’s nothing more than a glorified pyramid scheme where the average Joe foots the Bill for corporate gain all the while destroying the countryside. Jameson & Bolam among others have used their celebrity status to highlight the issue & have done a sterling job. Their input had ‘nothing’ to do with personal gain from property devaluation. As I started the initial campaign that was successful at Wisborough green I can tell you that as a matter of ‘fact’. I obviously can not speak for others that ‘may’ have asset protectionism as part of a wider agenda, but in ‘this’ instance, no.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

Might be if they were planning to sell their house but I'd doubt that.

[@thecovidprisoner]

Don't mention 'The Likely Lads ' and his fall out with Rodney Bewes to James Bolam . Wish you were here....he doesn't think that about his fellow comedy actor. Bizarre story........

[@paulrogers9511]

Let Turry speak Thelma man but. She's even won't let the seagulls get a word in!.

[@futtocks23]

R-I-P Rodney Bewes

[@david-pb4bi]

What in tarnation has Rodney Bewes got to do with it?

[@dazauto1400]

Shame on you Bolam for the 40 Yr feud with Bewes. Too late now pal. The better man went first.

[@greatwesternproductions2857]

Daz Auto That’s all in the past

[@jujuoliver6959]

Oh woman let him talk. Poor James Bolam trying to talk and constantly being interrupted 🙄.

[@glamdolly30]

Ironic that Susan Jameson expresses concern for the environment and it effects on her grandchildren. She's never met and couldn't care less about 4 of her grandchildren - the offspring of the son Nigel she had out of wedlock and gave up for adoption in 1960. Nigel reached out to her, his birth mother, as an adult, and after one polite meeting (with her only other child, a daughter with James Bolam) she told him she didn't feel like a mother to him and washed her hands of him! I have met these two - they are as cold and aloof a couple as you'll ever meet. I doubt they care a toss about the environment, this will all be self serving and to do with the value of their houses and the 'environment' as it affects the area immediately around them! Selfish, awful, hard faced pair - I don't believe a word they say. "By their deeds shall ye know them". Nuff said!

[@carloscasillero4422]

Plenty of people are estranged from family. Get a grip! Two damn fine actors. So what if they're aloof.

[@glamdolly30]

@@carloscasillero4422 You're right, they've done some great acting work especially early in their careers. But I was referring to this video in which they are not acting, but instead setting out their stall as human beings. And very preachy and sanctimonious they are too! I once met this couple professionally and didn't like them at all. They were insufferable - extremely rude, arrogant and superior in manner. I get a big whiff of hypocrisy off this video. If you like them, or don't care either way, that's fine, you're entitled to your opinion. I'm merely expressing mine. We must speak as we find in this life.

[@thewomble1509]

@@carloscasillero4422 Yes, how silly of us. Being proficient at anything automatically assuages the need for qualities such as basic humanity, compassion, forgiveness and perspective.

[@viewerdotcomviewerdotcom2926]

I met James Bolam and he was an utter gent. One of my friends interviewed Susan, she saw his DVDs of When the Boat Comes In, and asked if he would liked them signed by her and James. He couldn't believe his luck when she took them home with her and both her and James signed them and brought them back to his home.

[@glamdolly30]

@@viewerdotcomviewerdotcom2926 So you met James Bolam, and your friend met Susan Jameson, in totally unconnected encounters, and both of you found them charming? How extraordinary!

[@aryandefenseleague8243]

They need to build migrant centres on these sites

[@stevemcgill2278]

Don’t know their born...what a life of jam they’ve had.

[@Hvamp]

She won’t let him talk

[@TallSilentGuy]

Doesn't surprise me one bit that Bolam is a self-serving nimby.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

??? we ve drilled 1000s of wells around the world.. we always meet all environmental rules.. there are 1000s of wells around dallas, ft worth, houston, every major city in the usa and 1000s around the world.. no one knows where these wells are.. how silly.. we clean the area.. we reclaim the trees and soil.. we dont use chemicals.. im not sure what oil companys your talking about.. we have a dozen oil wells on my ranch.. why would we drill if it was going to kill us.. 90% of the profits go to the community and land owners and surrounding peoples.. i love these actors ,,,but yall are INSANE

[@thedandelion157]

What did come out of it? Anybody knows? I'm not from Britain, so I am asking...

[@xvdd1]

As far as I can tell the site was shut down because of poor flow so not commercially viable.

[@user-de8zu5eb8j]

Why not go on facebook or youtube and people who sit down in the road campaign , get beaten up kicked and punched and then enjoy whats happening to them, but have no clue as to you or your childrens future , and its serves as a scape goat and makes it so make money profit vast amounts but you will not notice what happening because you have been hoodwinked i feel that some people really are the ambulance at the bottom of a cliff

[@stephenstumbke1721]

Just seen these two in the 60s original likely lads episode

[@philsooty5421]

Their concerns are all about themselves, not concerned about other parts where this is happening though are they!

[@doloresfisher596]

Susan Jameson seems quite a dominant woman.could be wrong like but coming across that way.

[@markrees8166]

Maybe she should care about her child and he should have had some consideration for Rodney Bewes

[@stewartkee6115]

Mark Rees perhapes you should shut the fuck up.

[@glamdolly30]

Well said, they are a pair of miserable hypocrites, pretending to save the environment - all they care about is the value of their property portfolio.

[@dazauto1400]

Shame on Bolam for the pathetic, one sided 40 Yr feud with Bewes. Anyhow the better man went first. Hold your head in shame.

[@dazauto1400]

@@greatwesternproductions2857 What a fucking noob u are

[@thewomble1509]

@@greatwesternproductions2857 Stones, glass houses, etc?

[@Mrbluesplayer43]

Lovely couple, and great actors, but they really haven't a clue what they are talking about. No doubt they drove down in petrol or diesel vehicles, heat their homes with fossil fuels, are wearing cloths made from synthetic petroleum based fibres, have many plastic objects in their home, fly in planes for their holidays and travel, wear petroleum based makeup, yet they don't want anybody drilling in their backyard. Yes, if would be great not to rely on fossil fuels and do less drilling, but we don't have viable alternatives to replace everything and all the by products we rely upon, yet. FYI there are no radioactive substances placed in drilling fluids, we have far far stricter environmental rules and regulations than in the US, in the areas they talk about the zones of interest are nowhere near the aquifers.

[@jimmann8659]

james bolin and his partner were a bit push there it the first time I herd him in interview good work both keep it up

[@NR-rv8rz]

Rich luvie ladder pullers

[@sunnyjohn552]

Hi - grandpa Hello - great aunt Loretta

[@quietman2672]

Radio active waste??😂😂 I’ve just been watching a programme about the construction of the nuclear power station Hinckley 3. The planning and construction and precautions being made and imposed are beyond belief to ensure it’s a million per cent safe. Every single inch of welding is x rayed to ensure no faults, Steele and concrete jackets 30 feet thick. Pipe lines laid underground that are the the highest safety spec tunnelling ever produced. They even planned meteor strike events into the planning. It’s costing billions and billions and billions of pounds. Does she really think radio active waste water is going to be allowed to escape int the environment ???😂😂

[@joesmith8701]

all i see is terry collier lol

[@barrycuda3769]

Collier 'as in pit.

[@teressaalcantara5762]

You come from the north east what you doing there. Tractor. It is the end of the world. Live on Gibraltar you will soon see what it is like no where to move. Every where is pulsated. What your living in the south I don’t know.

[@Ian-co5ku]

Snobs.

[@Somemaysayso]

Radio active waste? I have heard it all now!

[@stewartkee6115]

Mark Briggs next you,ll discover climate change. Wakey Wakey

[@ericdinnair4091]

I Think they both a pain with Bolan giving all this bullshit about(Rodney Bews RIP mate) I have read all the interviews from Rodney even to his dying day he wanted to make it up with Bolan but even before his was dying and the same when Rodney's wife died he never contacted Rodney. Bolan busy my arse. He had enough time for Keith Baron when he died !! About Sue Jameson She can not be that great actor I remember seeing her in That Bullshit ATV Crossroads YOU COULD NOT GOT A WORSE TV SERIES THAN THAT !!! She took a shining to Benny I am also Adopted NO way Would I contact my Birth Mother My Adopted Mum AND DAD love me to bits all there lives (RIP MUM AND DAD ) I am now 68 and if the bitch was still alive I do not know what I would do I do not give a toss what them two do and do not give a shit I just hope they dissaper soon by the way I also live in Sussex GO TO HELL BOLAN & JOHNSON!!

[@paulrogers9511]

Eric Dinnair I know what Benny would say......."Erm yes miss Diane". Oh and Eric , it's BolaM not Bolan.

[@ivanmayer1353]

We need oil,and we need land for houses. The obvious places to drill for oil and build houses is where the countryside is. I agree that there may be a bit of inconvenience during the building and drilling,but you can't please everyone all the time. And as for the wildlife,well,we still have the zoo's.

[@lesliedodds4011]

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