Winners & Losers: Shining with the Shiner

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Winners & Losers: Shining with the Shiner

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Conman and victim face off in the first, and arguably funniest Winners & Losers episode. Legendary vagabond The Shiner (Coronation Street's Ivan Beavis) sets out to prove to his fellow swaggers that he can con alcohol from a dour publican (Ian Watkin). Co-director Ian Mune dons a fake eye; singer Tommy Adderley plays harmonica. The real life Shiner — Irishman Ned Slattery — was immortalised in a series of stories by John A Lee.  Although Lee claimed to have "once walked thirty miles side ...

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Video

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1976

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/winners-and-losers-shining-with-the-shiner-1976

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the shiner / otago / itinerant worker / joker / laughing / mischief / coronation street / unemployed / beer / publican / pub / rough / harmonica / tricks / con man / shout / escape / camp / fire / swagger / ned slattery / john a lee / folklore / bum / conman / adptation / literature / nz fiction / new zealand fiction / nz literature / new zealand literature / fiction / short story / creative new zealand / creative nz

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