Cultural References
Yeovil is the location for the School of Lifemanship in a series of novels by Stephen Potter: Gamesmanship (1947), Lifemanship (1950), One-Upmanship (1952), Supermanship (1958), Anti-Woo (1965) and The Complete Golf Gamesmanship (1968). The books were adapted for the 1960 film School for Scoundrels, starring Alastair Sim, Terry-Thomas, Ian Carmichael and Irene Handl. Later they were adapted by Barry Took into a BBC TV comedy series called One-Upmanship (1974–78), starring Richard Briers and Peter Jones. Yeovil was featured as part of The Idler's "Crap Towns" series. Yeovil is also one of the three principal locations in John Cowper Powys's 1929 novel, Wolf Solent.
Yeovil is known in Thomas Hardy's Wessex as "Ivell". In the novel The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, the character of Maddox is cited as living in the nearby village Marston Magna.
Local band The Chesterfields released a single called "Last train to Yeovil" and the pop band Bubblegum Splash also released a song called "18:10 to Yeovil Junction". The folk band Show Of Hands wrote a song entitled "Yeovil Town" about the violence and criminality they experienced after playing a small gig in Yeovil.
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