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'The despair is the same': Alan Bleasdale and James Graham on bringing back Boys from the Blackstuff by Mark Lawson

It's a dream team: the creator of the 1982 BBC series and the writer of Sherwood. The pair meet in Liverpool to discuss putting Yosser and the lads on stage in a new era of economic desperation Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff opened up a Britain few viewers knew. "I'd been writing it for three years," remembers Bleasdale, 77. "Walking around Liverpool, it was obvious mass unemployment was coming, but they d…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:33am on September 15, 2023 ☆ ⚑

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