
TV comedy BRASS is set in the 1930s Bradley Hardacre (Timothy West) owns a brass factory coalmine shipyard (and most of the Lancashire town of Utterley come to that) & is a ruthless man of luxury & wealth living in the big house on the hill with his wife Lady Patience & his children sons Austin & Morris & daughters Isobel & Charlotte At the other extreme are the working-class Fairchilds who are employed by the Hardacres live in a tiny house at the bottom of the hill--Agnes & George & their sons Jack & Matthew Hardacre was once one of them but has grown rich & self-superior on 'ard graft & ruthless cigar-smoking Northern ruthlessness The soap opera mix of rich & poor strong & weak homosexual nymphomaniacal feminist & flat-capped characters provides ample situation comedy & the production budget allowed for great sets locations cars & costumes