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duport · 09-01-2010, 11:03

Let me tell "A TALE OF TWO LESLIES":

In the 1950s, Dad was submitting short stories to BBC radio, and was fortunate to have several accepted for broadcast. He read some of these himself, but others were read by Violet Carson.
When Coronation Street was being set up, Violet Carson suggested Dad as a scriptwriter. Although the BBC knew how to contact Dad, he was an unknown to ITV, and so they did not have his address. When they searched for it, they came up with the “other” Leslie Duxbury, and so it was he, rather than Dad, who got the job.

That cloud had a silver lining for Clayton Leslie. (He was born in Clayton. Where he lived later I don't know.)

09-01-2010, 11:03	#9
duport Junior Member+ Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 13 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 0	Re: "A Child of Yesterday" Let me tell "A TALE OF TWO LESLIES": In the 1950s, Dad was submitting short stories to BBC radio, and was fortunate to have several accepted for broadcast. He read some of these himself, but others were read by Violet Carson. When Coronation Street was being set up, Violet Carson suggested Dad as a scriptwriter. Although the BBC knew how to contact Dad, he was an unknown to ITV, and so they did not have his address. When they searched for it, they came up with the “other” Leslie Duxbury, and so it was he, rather than Dad, who got the job. That cloud had a silver lining for Clayton Leslie. (He was born in Clayton. Where he lived later I don't know.)