The Bible in Cockney
Well bits of it anyway
by Mike Coles
GoodBookStall Review:
In 1960 the Religious Education classroom was liable to be equipped with 36 copies of the Authorized Version of the Bible, and a significant proportion of the lesson was likely to be spent in translating Jacobean English into the (then) present-day. However, soon Carl Burke's "God is for Real, Man", Bernard Miles's "God's Brainwave" and perhaps Kit Calvert's Wensleydale, or your own local dialect version of well-known passages brightened up the lesson. And then the standard homework would be "Re-tell this parable in a modern setting, in dialect if you wish." But here it is the teacher who has rewritten the Dicky Bird, and I fear the RE lesson will again have to begin with translation - back! Inclusion of the crucifixion account is in my view bad taste. For the rest though, while I have little lemon and lime for this rookery as a serious piece of Dunkirk, yet as after-Lilley&Skinner entertainment - turtle dove it!
Reviewer: Mike Topliss (20/06/01)
In 1960 the Religious Education classroom was liable to be equipped with 36 copies of the Authorized Version of the Bible, and a significant proportion of the lesson was likely to be spent in translating Jacobean English into the (then) present-day. However, soon Carl Burke's "God is for Real, Man", Bernard Miles's "God's Brainwave" and perhaps Kit Calvert's Wensleydale, or your own local dialect version of well-known passages brightened up the lesson. And then the standard homework would be "Re-tell this parable in a modern setting, in dialect if you wish." But here it is the teacher who has rewritten the Dicky Bird, and I fear the RE lesson will again have to begin with translation - back! Inclusion of the crucifixion account is in my view bad taste. For the rest though, while I have little lemon and lime for this rookery as a serious piece of Dunkirk, yet as after-Lilley&Skinner entertainment - turtle dove it!
Reviewer: Mike Topliss (20/06/01)
