I can’t pull live updates right this moment, but here’s what’s known about Greg Davies and his project related to Kes.
- Greg Davies has previously explored Kes in Looking for Kes, a BBC Four documentary about Barry Hines’s novel and Ken Loach’s film Kes. That documentary aired in 2019 and followed Davies’s personal connection to the story and Barnsley.[3][5][7]
- There is historical coverage noting Davies’s involvement with Kes material, including a 2019 BBC Four/ BBC Arts collaboration that celebrated the literature and its impact on working-class portrayal in fiction.[1][3]
- Since then, Davies has remained active in British TV and comedy, with related projects like Taskmaster and The Cleaner, but there hasn’t been prominent, widely publicized new Kes-specific documentary announced in the most recent sources available up to 2024–2025 in mainstream outlets.[2][10]
If you’d like, I can search for the latest news now and pull the most recent articles or official announcements about any new Kes-related documentary or Greg Davies projects. Would you like me to do that?
For quick context, here are a few quick references you can check:
- Greg Davies: Looking for Kes (2019) on IMDb or Letterboxd for synopsis and credits.[5][10]
- Coverage of Davies’s Kes-related BBC appearance and reception in the 2019 press around Kes: A Boy’s Life on BBC Four.[1][3]
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The Inbetweeners star is a lifelong fan of Hines' novel
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economictimes.indiatimes.comComedian, actor and former English teacher Greg Davies is to present a BBC four documentary entitled Kes: A Boy's Life. It will air on BBC Four on 19 November at 9pm.Davies is a lifelong fan of Barry Hines' classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the story of Billy Casper training a kestrel as an escape from his troubled home and school life, which was famously made into the film Kes by Ken Loach.In this BBC film, Greg celebrates a novel that transformed how working class lives were portrayed in...
www.beyondthejoke.co.ukThis year marks the 50th anniversary of Ken Loach’s film Kes, and the 51st of A Kestrel for a Knave, the Barry Hines novel it was based on. The story of Barnsley boy Billy Casper who finds an escape from his painful home life and brutal schooling by training a wild kestrel has resonated down the decades, and the film is regarded as a classic of British cinema, even if the Americans couldn’t understand its Yorkshire accents.
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www.gbnews.comComedian, actor and ex-English teacher Greg Davies is a lifelong fan of Barry Hines's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the story of Billy Casper training a kestrel as an escape from his troubled home and school life. In this documentary, Greg goes in search of the book's enduring appeal, travelling to Barnsley, where the book was set and where Ken Loach's famous adaptation, Kes, was filmed.
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