"Our Indifference To Ourselves": Beyond The "Virtue" Of Self-Sacrifice (Part 1)
by Media Lens / February 15th, 2021 The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV. Ridley played Private Godfrey, the loveable, most doddery member of a Second World War platoon of elderly Home Guard troops tasked with defending a stretch of the British coast ‘from the Novelty Rock Emporium to Stone’s Amusement Arcade’. Godfrey would typically interrupt preparations to repel Nazi stormtroopers with observations such as, ‘My sister ...