Katana VentraIP

I Luv You Jimmy Spud

I luv you Jimmy Spud is a play set in Newcastle upon Tyne by British playwright Lee Hall[1] starring Gus Brown as Jimmy Spud and Michael Walpert as Stephen (Scout). Originally commissioned by BBC Radio 4, it was first broadcast in 1995.

I Luv You Jimmy Spud

  • Gus Brown as Jimmy Spud
  • Michael Walpert as Stephen (Scout)

1995

The play initiated the God's Country tetralogy; the other plays in the sequence are, in order:


I luv you Jimmy Spud has been made into a 2001 film Gabriel and Me starring Iain Glen and Billy Connolly as the angel Gabriel.


In the forward to the book Byker Revisited, Hall said that I Luv You Jimmy Spud was heavily influenced by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's book, Byker.[2]