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Extract of a South Bank Show interview (1984) with Alan Bleasdale where he talks about growing up in Huyton.
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?".- the last hours of Elvis.
Go to part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGfcSE_16E
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My deepest gratitude to the lovely lady who gave me this to digitalize.
- published: 17 Sep 2009
- views: 4889
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - the last hours of Elvis.
I own nothing, all copyright remains with the rightful owners.
My deepest gratitude to the lovely lady who gave me this to digitalize.
- published: 17 Sep 2009
- views: 1693
Derek Hatton goes on the Channel 4 viewer feedback show to argue that Alan Bleasdale's drama GBH is a thinly veiled attack on him and the politics of Liverpool in the 80s.
- published: 21 Jul 2014
- views: 3581
Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these
profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive.
Essential Viewing - All 5 Episodes
1, 0:00:00
Jobs For The Boys
Chrissie assembles an unofficial building gang but their moonlighting is being watched by the Department of Employment's
investigators. A raid by the fraud squad leads to tragedy.
2, 0:53:59
Moonlighter
Dixie, father of four and once the proud foreman, is working illicitly on the docks when he discovers happenings that he'd rather not see. Meanwhile after threats from the Department of Employment, his wife Freda is too scared to open the door.
3, 1:51:13
Shop Thy Neighbour
Chrissie's dole money has been stopped pending the enquiry into the 'moonlighting' affair. With no food in the cupboard the scene is set for a showdown with his wife Angie - this after all, was going to be her time.
4, 2:51:01
Yossers Story
Once Yosser dreamt of making it big. Now his manic search for work alternates with fruitless efforts to avoid eviction and keep his three children from being taken into care.
5, 3:58:35
George's Last Ride
A lifetime of adversity has left George's beliefs unbroken. When the end comes Chrissie discovers a legacy and finds that something must be said.
Boys from the Blackstuff was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, as a sequel to a television play, The Black Stuff. The British Film Institute described it as a "seminal drama series", a warm humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way economics affect ordinary people. TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class British culture.
The series follows the stories of the five now unemployed men who lost their jobs due to the events of the original play The Blackstuff. Set in Bleasdale's home city of Liverpool, and reflecting many of his own experiences of life in the city, each episode focuses on a different member of the group.
The series was highly acclaimed for its powerful and emotional depiction of the desperation wrought by high unemployment and
a subsequent lack of social support. Although the series is and was noted by many reviewers as a critique of the Margaret
Thatcher era, which was seen as being responsible for the fate of many of the unemployed lower and working classes, particularly in the North of England (and in fact fuelling the North-South divide), most of the series had actually been written in 1978 during Labour's James Callaghan's prime minister-ship, therefore preceding Thatcher's Britain by a year. Unemployment stood at a 40-year high of more 1.5 million by the summer of 1978, compared to some 600,000 just four years earlier, but by early 1982 had reached 3 million (some one in eight of the workforce) as a result of economic recession and restructuring of industry.
Indeed the most memorable and poignant of the characters was Yosser Hughes, a man driven to the edge of his sanity by the loss of his job, his wife, the authorities' continued attempts to take his children away from him and his constant attempts at salvaging his male pride 'often being the main give-away of his insecurity'. His catchphrases, "Gizza' job!" ("give us a job") and "I can do that!" became part of the popular consciousness of the Eighties, summing up the mood of many who sought desperately for work during the era.
Written by: Alan Bleasdale
Starring: Micael Angelis, Bernard Hill, Alan Igbon, Peter Kerrigan and Tom Georgeson
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Boys from the Blackstuff
Chrissie Loggo George Dixie Yosser
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Individual Episodes
1, 0:00:00 --- Jobs For The Boys
2, 0:53:59 --- Moonlighter
3, 1:51:13 --- Shop Thy Neighbour
4, 2:51:01 --- Yossers Story
5, 3:58:35 --- George's Last Ride
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- published: 04 Feb 2015
- views: 13154
Alan Bleasdale explains that Julie could've changed the course of theatre and literature.
- published: 20 Mar 2015
- views: 132
No Surrender is a dark humour Alan Bleasdale film.
Set in Liverpool in the 1980's, it has many sub plots going on at the same time involving 2 sets of pensioners (one Catholic and the other Protestant), a band who can't play, a magician who can't do magic, an underworld gangland boss torturing the previous manager, a group of very old mentally handicaped patents and enough bad language to make a Chubby Brown show look PG!!!!
A normal night out these days.
- published: 06 Nov 2010
- views: 10319
Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool Football Club. Written by Alan Bleasdale.
- published: 10 May 2011
- views: 22439
Chilling excerpt from Alan Bleasdale`s 1991 drama GBH.
GBH is an epic drama of seven feature length episodes written and directed by Alan Bleasdale and starring Michael Palin and Robert Lindsey. It is currently available on Channel 4`s "4od" service.
The song "The Three Bells" is not credited on GBH literature. Information on the source of the song can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Bells
- published: 17 Mar 2013
- views: 4105
Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool Football Club. Written by Alan Bleasdale.
- published: 15 May 2011
- views: 3953
Alan Bleasdale (born 23 March 1946, Liverpool, Lancashire, now Merseyside, England) is an English television dramatist, best known for writing several social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people.
Bleasdale is an only child; his father worked in a food factory and his mother in a grocery shop. From 1951-57, he went to the St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Infant and Junior Schools in Huyton-with-Roby (then in Lancashire). From 1957-64, he attended the Wade Deacon Grammar School in Widnes (now the Wade Deacon High School). In 1967, he obtained a teaching certificate from the Padgate College of Education in Warrington (which became Warrington Collegiate Institute, now part of the University of Chester).
In 1967, he married Julie Moses; they have two sons and one daughter. For four years he worked as a teacher at St Columba's Secondary Modern School in Huyton from 1967-71, then King George V School (now The King George V & Elaine Bernacchi School in Bikenibeu in South Tarawa) on the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (now called Kiribati) from 1971-4, and lastly at Halewood Grange Comprehensive School (now known as Halewood College) in Halewood from 1974-5. From 1975 to 1986 he worked as a playwright at the Liverpool Playhouse (becoming associate director) and the Contact Theatre in Manchester (a University of Manchester venue).
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3:31Bleasdale - Huyton
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Extract of a South Bank Show interview (1984) with Alan Bleasdale where he talks about growing up in Huyton. -
8:52Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 1/2
Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 1/2Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 1/2
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?".- the last hours of Elvis. Go to part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGfcSE_16E I own nothing, all copyright remains with the rightful owners. My deepest gratitude to the lovely lady who gave me this to digitalize. -
2:59Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 2/2
Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 2/2Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 2/2
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - the last hours of Elvis. I own nothing, all copyright remains with the rightful owners. My deepest gratitude to the lovely lady who gave me this to digitalize. -
14:44Right to Reply - Derek Hatton on GBH
Right to Reply - Derek Hatton on GBHRight to Reply - Derek Hatton on GBH
Derek Hatton goes on the Channel 4 viewer feedback show to argue that Alan Bleasdale's drama GBH is a thinly veiled attack on him and the politics of Liverpool in the 80s. -
306:14BOYS From The BLACKSTUFF - 'Complete 5 Episodes' (full)
BOYS From The BLACKSTUFF - 'Complete 5 Episodes' (full)BOYS From The BLACKSTUFF - 'Complete 5 Episodes' (full)
Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive. Essential Viewing - All 5 Episodes 1, 0:00:00 Jobs For The Boys Chrissie assembles an unofficial building gang but their moonlighting is being watched by the Department of Employment's investigators. A raid by the fraud squad leads to tragedy. 2, 0:53:59 Moonlighter Dixie, father of four and once the proud foreman, is working illicitly on the docks when he discovers happenings that he'd rather not see. Meanwhile after threats from the Department of Employment, his wife Freda is too scared to open the door. 3, 1:51:13 Shop Thy Neighbour Chrissie's dole money has been stopped pending the enquiry into the 'moonlighting' affair. With no food in the cupboard the scene is set for a showdown with his wife Angie - this after all, was going to be her time. 4, 2:51:01 Yossers Story Once Yosser dreamt of making it big. Now his manic search for work alternates with fruitless efforts to avoid eviction and keep his three children from being taken into care. 5, 3:58:35 George's Last Ride A lifetime of adversity has left George's beliefs unbroken. When the end comes Chrissie discovers a legacy and finds that something must be said. Boys from the Blackstuff was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, as a sequel to a television play, The Black Stuff. The British Film Institute described it as a "seminal drama series", a warm humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way economics affect ordinary people. TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class British culture. The series follows the stories of the five now unemployed men who lost their jobs due to the events of the original play The Blackstuff. Set in Bleasdale's home city of Liverpool, and reflecting many of his own experiences of life in the city, each episode focuses on a different member of the group. The series was highly acclaimed for its powerful and emotional depiction of the desperation wrought by high unemployment and a subsequent lack of social support. Although the series is and was noted by many reviewers as a critique of the Margaret Thatcher era, which was seen as being responsible for the fate of many of the unemployed lower and working classes, particularly in the North of England (and in fact fuelling the North-South divide), most of the series had actually been written in 1978 during Labour's James Callaghan's prime minister-ship, therefore preceding Thatcher's Britain by a year. Unemployment stood at a 40-year high of more 1.5 million by the summer of 1978, compared to some 600,000 just four years earlier, but by early 1982 had reached 3 million (some one in eight of the workforce) as a result of economic recession and restructuring of industry. Indeed the most memorable and poignant of the characters was Yosser Hughes, a man driven to the edge of his sanity by the loss of his job, his wife, the authorities' continued attempts to take his children away from him and his constant attempts at salvaging his male pride 'often being the main give-away of his insecurity'. His catchphrases, "Gizza' job!" ("give us a job") and "I can do that!" became part of the popular consciousness of the Eighties, summing up the mood of many who sought desperately for work during the era. Written by: Alan Bleasdale Starring: Micael Angelis, Bernard Hill, Alan Igbon, Peter Kerrigan and Tom Georgeson --- Boys from the Blackstuff Chrissie Loggo George Dixie Yosser --- Individual Episodes 1, 0:00:00 --- Jobs For The Boys 2, 0:53:59 --- Moonlighter 3, 1:51:13 --- Shop Thy Neighbour 4, 2:51:01 --- Yossers Story 5, 3:58:35 --- George's Last Ride ----------- --9159-- ----------- -
1:04Alan Bleasdale On Julie | Julie Walters And Friends
Alan Bleasdale On Julie | Julie Walters And FriendsAlan Bleasdale On Julie | Julie Walters And Friends
Alan Bleasdale explains that Julie could've changed the course of theatre and literature. -
8:01No Surrender Part 1 of 13.avi
No Surrender Part 1 of 13.aviNo Surrender Part 1 of 13.avi
No Surrender is a dark humour Alan Bleasdale film. Set in Liverpool in the 1980's, it has many sub plots going on at the same time involving 2 sets of pensioners (one Catholic and the other Protestant), a band who can't play, a magician who can't do magic, an underworld gangland boss torturing the previous manager, a group of very old mentally handicaped patents and enough bad language to make a Chubby Brown show look PG!!!! A normal night out these days. -
10:58Scully Episode 1 - Part One
Scully Episode 1 - Part OneScully Episode 1 - Part One
Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool Football Club. Written by Alan Bleasdale. -
3:59Three Bells from the TV series GBH
Three Bells from the TV series GBHThree Bells from the TV series GBH
Chilling excerpt from Alan Bleasdale`s 1991 drama GBH. GBH is an epic drama of seven feature length episodes written and directed by Alan Bleasdale and starring Michael Palin and Robert Lindsey. It is currently available on Channel 4`s "4od" service. The song "The Three Bells" is not credited on GBH literature. Information on the source of the song can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Bells -
10:49Scully Episode 3 part 1
Scully Episode 3 part 1Scully Episode 3 part 1
Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool Football Club. Written by Alan Bleasdale.
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Bleasdale - Huyton
Extract of a South Bank Show interview (1984) with Alan Bleasdale where he talks about growing up in Huyton. -
Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 1/2
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?".- the last hours of Elvis. Go to part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGfcSE_16E I own nothing, all copyright remains with the rightful owners. My deepest gratitude to the lovely lady who gave me this to digitalize. -
Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 2/2
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - the last hours of Elvis. I own nothing, all copyright remains with the rightful owners. My deepest gratitude to the lovely lady who gave me this to digitalize. -
Right to Reply - Derek Hatton on GBH
Derek Hatton goes on the Channel 4 viewer feedback show to argue that Alan Bleasdale's drama GBH is a thinly veiled attack on him and the politics of Liverpool in the 80s. -
BOYS From The BLACKSTUFF - 'Complete 5 Episodes' (full)
Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive. Essential Viewing - All 5 Episodes 1, 0:00:00 Jobs For The Boys Chrissie assembles an unofficial building gang but their moonlighting is being watched by the Department of Employment's investigators. A raid by the fraud squad leads to tragedy. 2, 0:53:59 Moonlighter Dixie, father of four and once the proud foreman, is working illicitly on the docks when he discovers happenings that he'd rather not see. Meanwhile after threats from the Department of Employment, his wife Freda is too scared to open the door. 3, 1:51:13 Shop Thy Neighbour Chrissie's dole money has been... -
Alan Bleasdale On Julie | Julie Walters And Friends
Alan Bleasdale explains that Julie could've changed the course of theatre and literature. -
No Surrender Part 1 of 13.avi
No Surrender is a dark humour Alan Bleasdale film. Set in Liverpool in the 1980's, it has many sub plots going on at the same time involving 2 sets of pensioners (one Catholic and the other Protestant), a band who can't play, a magician who can't do magic, an underworld gangland boss torturing the previous manager, a group of very old mentally handicaped patents and enough bad language to make a Chubby Brown show look PG!!!! A normal night out these days. -
Scully Episode 1 - Part One
Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool Football Club. Written by Alan Bleasdale. -
Three Bells from the TV series GBH
Chilling excerpt from Alan Bleasdale`s 1991 drama GBH. GBH is an epic drama of seven feature length episodes written and directed by Alan Bleasdale and starring Michael Palin and Robert Lindsey. It is currently available on Channel 4`s "4od" service. The song "The Three Bells" is not credited on GBH literature. Information on the source of the song can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Bells -
Scully Episode 3 part 1
Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool Football Club. Written by Alan Bleasdale.
Bleasdale - Huyton
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 04 Mar 2013
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Extract of a South Bank Show interview (1984) with Alan Bleasdale where he talks about growing up in Huyton.
Extract of a South Bank Show interview (1984) with Alan Bleasdale where he talks about growing up in Huyton.
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Extract of a South Bank Show interview (1984) with Alan Bleasdale where he talks about growing up in Huyton.
- published: 04 Mar 2013
- views: 3775
Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 1/2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:52
- Updated: 17 Sep 2009
- views: 4889
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?".- the last hours of Elvis.
Go to part 2
http://www.youtube.co...
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?".- the last hours of Elvis.
Go to part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGfcSE_16E
I own nothing, all copyright remains with the rightful owners.
My deepest gratitude to the lovely lady who gave me this to digitalize.
wn.com/Martin Shaw And Alan Bleasdale Terry Wogan Interview 1985 1 2
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?".- the last hours of Elvis.
Go to part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGfcSE_16E
I own nothing, all copyright remains with the rightful owners.
My deepest gratitude to the lovely lady who gave me this to digitalize.
- published: 17 Sep 2009
- views: 4889
Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 2/2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 17 Sep 2009
- views: 1693
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - the last hours of Elvis.
I own nothing, all copyright remain...
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - the last hours of Elvis.
I own nothing, all copyright remains with the rightful owners.
My deepest gratitude to the lovely lady who gave me this to digitalize.
wn.com/Martin Shaw And Alan Bleasdale Terry Wogan Interview 1985 2 2
Actor Martin Shaw and playright Alan Bleasdale talk about the play "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - the last hours of Elvis.
I own nothing, all copyright remains with the rightful owners.
My deepest gratitude to the lovely lady who gave me this to digitalize.
- published: 17 Sep 2009
- views: 1693
Right to Reply - Derek Hatton on GBH
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:44
- Updated: 21 Jul 2014
- views: 3581
Derek Hatton goes on the Channel 4 viewer feedback show to argue that Alan Bleasdale's drama GBH is a thinly veiled attack on him and the politics of Liverpool ...
Derek Hatton goes on the Channel 4 viewer feedback show to argue that Alan Bleasdale's drama GBH is a thinly veiled attack on him and the politics of Liverpool in the 80s.
wn.com/Right To Reply Derek Hatton On Gbh
Derek Hatton goes on the Channel 4 viewer feedback show to argue that Alan Bleasdale's drama GBH is a thinly veiled attack on him and the politics of Liverpool in the 80s.
- published: 21 Jul 2014
- views: 3581
BOYS From The BLACKSTUFF - 'Complete 5 Episodes' (full)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 306:14
- Updated: 04 Feb 2015
- views: 13154
Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these
profoundly moving human dramas follow...
Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these
profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive.
Essential Viewing - All 5 Episodes
1, 0:00:00
Jobs For The Boys
Chrissie assembles an unofficial building gang but their moonlighting is being watched by the Department of Employment's
investigators. A raid by the fraud squad leads to tragedy.
2, 0:53:59
Moonlighter
Dixie, father of four and once the proud foreman, is working illicitly on the docks when he discovers happenings that he'd rather not see. Meanwhile after threats from the Department of Employment, his wife Freda is too scared to open the door.
3, 1:51:13
Shop Thy Neighbour
Chrissie's dole money has been stopped pending the enquiry into the 'moonlighting' affair. With no food in the cupboard the scene is set for a showdown with his wife Angie - this after all, was going to be her time.
4, 2:51:01
Yossers Story
Once Yosser dreamt of making it big. Now his manic search for work alternates with fruitless efforts to avoid eviction and keep his three children from being taken into care.
5, 3:58:35
George's Last Ride
A lifetime of adversity has left George's beliefs unbroken. When the end comes Chrissie discovers a legacy and finds that something must be said.
Boys from the Blackstuff was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, as a sequel to a television play, The Black Stuff. The British Film Institute described it as a "seminal drama series", a warm humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way economics affect ordinary people. TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class British culture.
The series follows the stories of the five now unemployed men who lost their jobs due to the events of the original play The Blackstuff. Set in Bleasdale's home city of Liverpool, and reflecting many of his own experiences of life in the city, each episode focuses on a different member of the group.
The series was highly acclaimed for its powerful and emotional depiction of the desperation wrought by high unemployment and
a subsequent lack of social support. Although the series is and was noted by many reviewers as a critique of the Margaret
Thatcher era, which was seen as being responsible for the fate of many of the unemployed lower and working classes, particularly in the North of England (and in fact fuelling the North-South divide), most of the series had actually been written in 1978 during Labour's James Callaghan's prime minister-ship, therefore preceding Thatcher's Britain by a year. Unemployment stood at a 40-year high of more 1.5 million by the summer of 1978, compared to some 600,000 just four years earlier, but by early 1982 had reached 3 million (some one in eight of the workforce) as a result of economic recession and restructuring of industry.
Indeed the most memorable and poignant of the characters was Yosser Hughes, a man driven to the edge of his sanity by the loss of his job, his wife, the authorities' continued attempts to take his children away from him and his constant attempts at salvaging his male pride 'often being the main give-away of his insecurity'. His catchphrases, "Gizza' job!" ("give us a job") and "I can do that!" became part of the popular consciousness of the Eighties, summing up the mood of many who sought desperately for work during the era.
Written by: Alan Bleasdale
Starring: Micael Angelis, Bernard Hill, Alan Igbon, Peter Kerrigan and Tom Georgeson
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Boys from the Blackstuff
Chrissie Loggo George Dixie Yosser
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Individual Episodes
1, 0:00:00 --- Jobs For The Boys
2, 0:53:59 --- Moonlighter
3, 1:51:13 --- Shop Thy Neighbour
4, 2:51:01 --- Yossers Story
5, 3:58:35 --- George's Last Ride
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wn.com/Boys From The Blackstuff 'Complete 5 Episodes' (Full)
Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these
profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive.
Essential Viewing - All 5 Episodes
1, 0:00:00
Jobs For The Boys
Chrissie assembles an unofficial building gang but their moonlighting is being watched by the Department of Employment's
investigators. A raid by the fraud squad leads to tragedy.
2, 0:53:59
Moonlighter
Dixie, father of four and once the proud foreman, is working illicitly on the docks when he discovers happenings that he'd rather not see. Meanwhile after threats from the Department of Employment, his wife Freda is too scared to open the door.
3, 1:51:13
Shop Thy Neighbour
Chrissie's dole money has been stopped pending the enquiry into the 'moonlighting' affair. With no food in the cupboard the scene is set for a showdown with his wife Angie - this after all, was going to be her time.
4, 2:51:01
Yossers Story
Once Yosser dreamt of making it big. Now his manic search for work alternates with fruitless efforts to avoid eviction and keep his three children from being taken into care.
5, 3:58:35
George's Last Ride
A lifetime of adversity has left George's beliefs unbroken. When the end comes Chrissie discovers a legacy and finds that something must be said.
Boys from the Blackstuff was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, as a sequel to a television play, The Black Stuff. The British Film Institute described it as a "seminal drama series", a warm humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way economics affect ordinary people. TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class British culture.
The series follows the stories of the five now unemployed men who lost their jobs due to the events of the original play The Blackstuff. Set in Bleasdale's home city of Liverpool, and reflecting many of his own experiences of life in the city, each episode focuses on a different member of the group.
The series was highly acclaimed for its powerful and emotional depiction of the desperation wrought by high unemployment and
a subsequent lack of social support. Although the series is and was noted by many reviewers as a critique of the Margaret
Thatcher era, which was seen as being responsible for the fate of many of the unemployed lower and working classes, particularly in the North of England (and in fact fuelling the North-South divide), most of the series had actually been written in 1978 during Labour's James Callaghan's prime minister-ship, therefore preceding Thatcher's Britain by a year. Unemployment stood at a 40-year high of more 1.5 million by the summer of 1978, compared to some 600,000 just four years earlier, but by early 1982 had reached 3 million (some one in eight of the workforce) as a result of economic recession and restructuring of industry.
Indeed the most memorable and poignant of the characters was Yosser Hughes, a man driven to the edge of his sanity by the loss of his job, his wife, the authorities' continued attempts to take his children away from him and his constant attempts at salvaging his male pride 'often being the main give-away of his insecurity'. His catchphrases, "Gizza' job!" ("give us a job") and "I can do that!" became part of the popular consciousness of the Eighties, summing up the mood of many who sought desperately for work during the era.
Written by: Alan Bleasdale
Starring: Micael Angelis, Bernard Hill, Alan Igbon, Peter Kerrigan and Tom Georgeson
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Boys from the Blackstuff
Chrissie Loggo George Dixie Yosser
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Individual Episodes
1, 0:00:00 --- Jobs For The Boys
2, 0:53:59 --- Moonlighter
3, 1:51:13 --- Shop Thy Neighbour
4, 2:51:01 --- Yossers Story
5, 3:58:35 --- George's Last Ride
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Alan Bleasdale On Julie | Julie Walters And Friends
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Alan Bleasdale explains that Julie could've changed the course of theatre and literature.
Alan Bleasdale explains that Julie could've changed the course of theatre and literature.
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Alan Bleasdale explains that Julie could've changed the course of theatre and literature.
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No Surrender Part 1 of 13.avi
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No Surrender is a dark humour Alan Bleasdale film.
Set in Liverpool in the 1980's, it has many sub plots going on at the same time involving 2 sets of pensio...
No Surrender is a dark humour Alan Bleasdale film.
Set in Liverpool in the 1980's, it has many sub plots going on at the same time involving 2 sets of pensioners (one Catholic and the other Protestant), a band who can't play, a magician who can't do magic, an underworld gangland boss torturing the previous manager, a group of very old mentally handicaped patents and enough bad language to make a Chubby Brown show look PG!!!!
A normal night out these days.
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No Surrender is a dark humour Alan Bleasdale film.
Set in Liverpool in the 1980's, it has many sub plots going on at the same time involving 2 sets of pensioners (one Catholic and the other Protestant), a band who can't play, a magician who can't do magic, an underworld gangland boss torturing the previous manager, a group of very old mentally handicaped patents and enough bad language to make a Chubby Brown show look PG!!!!
A normal night out these days.
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Scully Episode 1 - Part One
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- Duration: 10:58
- Updated: 10 May 2011
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Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverp...
Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool Football Club. Written by Alan Bleasdale.
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Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool Football Club. Written by Alan Bleasdale.
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Three Bells from the TV series GBH
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Chilling excerpt from Alan Bleasdale`s 1991 drama GBH.
GBH is an epic drama of seven feature length episodes written and directed by Alan Bleasdale and starrin...
Chilling excerpt from Alan Bleasdale`s 1991 drama GBH.
GBH is an epic drama of seven feature length episodes written and directed by Alan Bleasdale and starring Michael Palin and Robert Lindsey. It is currently available on Channel 4`s "4od" service.
The song "The Three Bells" is not credited on GBH literature. Information on the source of the song can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Bells
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Chilling excerpt from Alan Bleasdale`s 1991 drama GBH.
GBH is an epic drama of seven feature length episodes written and directed by Alan Bleasdale and starring Michael Palin and Robert Lindsey. It is currently available on Channel 4`s "4od" service.
The song "The Three Bells" is not credited on GBH literature. Information on the source of the song can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Bells
- published: 17 Mar 2013
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Scully Episode 3 part 1
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- Duration: 10:49
- Updated: 15 May 2011
- views: 3953
Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool...
Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool Football Club. Written by Alan Bleasdale.
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Scully was an 80's Liverpool Comedy, based on the life of a young lad, played by Andrew Schofield. His idol is Kenny Daglish and to play football with Liverpool Football Club. Written by Alan Bleasdale.
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Martin Shaw and Alan Bleasdale - Terry Wogan Interview 1985 1/2
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Right to Reply - Derek Hatton on GBH
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BOYS From The BLACKSTUFF - 'Complete 5 Episodes' (full)
Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unempl...
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Great Oppressor Tells Puerto Rico “Pull Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps”
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “Mosquitoes. Rats…malaria and hookworm, and in about every other house someone with tuberculosis, …” was how President Franklin D ... Wall Street, Population Control, and Militarization of Puerto Rico In reality, the plan invigorated Wall Street and U.S ... dictated.Entire agricultural regions were transformed into industrial centers of mass production ... Not only will the U.S ... Indeed, the U.S ... 321....
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Teacher had sex with 13-year-old student, got pregnant, authorities say
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A Texas teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student turned herself in to police Wednesday. According to KTRK, Alexandria Vera, 24, of Houston is accused of sexually abusing the boy, who was an eighth-grade student in her English class at Stovall Middle School last summer ... Read more trending stories ... Read more here ... ....
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UCLA Shooter Mainak Sarkar’s Minnesota Victim Identified as His Wife
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The woman killed in Minnesota by UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar has been identified by her sister as Sarkar’s wife, Ashley Hasti. “My sister, Ashley Hasti, was the smartest, coolest, and funniest person I knew,” Alex Hasti wrote on Facebook ... Unfortunately, she won’t get to see that last dream come true as her life was cut short much too soon by her estranged husband.” ... Also Read. UCLA Shooter Mainak Sarkar....
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Wave of deadly gunbattles hit Rio as the Olympics get closer
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CNN)When gunbattles break out in the impoverished hilltop communities that overlook Rio De Janeiro, some residents hide in the bathrooms of their homes. Others take shelter under staircases. In the case of Max Groy, he had very few options ... "All of the sudden everybody started running at the gas station and hiding behind things," he said ... Read More. "It was surreal," he said ... He called the Games "dirty." ... ....
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Bernie Sanders Has Already Won California
Edit The New Republic 03 Jun 2016
Does the outcome of next Tuesday’s California primary matter? Conventional wisdom says no; news outlets are already pinpointing the precise time of the evening when Hillary Clinton will clinch the nomination that evening with victories elsewhere—three hours before the polls close in the Golden State ... I’ll be perfectly honest ... That race had incredibly low turnout, which is sadly the norm in a state without much of a political culture ... ....
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Carla Lane obituary: Celebrated writer of TV sitcoms
Edit The Guardian 01 Jun 2016
Comedy writer known as much for her animal rights activism as for television hits including The Liver Birds, Butterflies and Bread ... Twitter ... Lane imagined in Bread a family in broken Britain struggling to make their way without paid employment, but surviving through benefits fraud and selling stolen goods – like Alan Bleasdale’s drama The Boys from the Black Stuff, but with more laughs and greater sentimentality about family life ... ....
'Britflix' and chill – doesn’t have the quite same ring to it
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The government has given the BBC the go-ahead to develop a subscription streaming service – but what might we expect from a British version of Netflix?. Name. Britflix. Age. Not yet. Appearance. Not yet ... Sometime ... “If it will give me a full Victoria Wood retrospective, back-to-back Alan Bleasdale and Jack Rosenthal seasons (alongside daily showings of The Monocled Mutineer and Bar Mitzvah Boy), the full Dennis Potter archive and Play School....
Why working-class actors are a disappearing breed
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Once we had gritty TV dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff; now we have glossy thrillers with public school-educated stars. How did British screens become dominated by the privileged few? And does it matter?. @carolecadwalla ... Twitter ... She says ... There’s been no modern austerity equivalent of the great, epoch-defining Alan Bleasdale drama, Boys from the Blackstuff, a series that seemed to signal the high-water mark of Thatcherism ... ....
Victoria Wood tributes pour in and highlight why the British comic star was so loved
Edit Sydney Morning Herald 21 Apr 2016
The passing of British comedian Victoria Wood has generated a flood of tributes from giants not just of comedy and television, but film, music, literature, theatre and politics ... Watch and weep. 62 is far too young. RIP Victoria Wood ... "No ... VW could write dialogue like Alan Bennett, songs like Noel Coward, drama like Alan Bleasdale, and pack the Albert Hall like Billy Connolly.— Rory Bremner (@rorybremner) April 20, 2016 ... ....
Down the Dock Road review – Bleasdale's waterfront drama is still a contender
Edit The Guardian 18 Mar 2016
In the summer of 1970, Alan Bleasdale picked a false name and took a part-time job as a security guard at Liverpool docks ... Quite why it has languished so long in obscurity can only be explained by the fact that Bleasdale was producing brilliant social polemics at such a rate that they tended to disappear on the pile ... It’s a big drama with a substantial cast, and a few longeurs that the later Bleasdale may not have tolerated ... Twitter ... ....
Les Dennis & Alan Bleasdale: 'We bonded over being Scousers, and the humour of Liverpudlians'
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Alan Bleasdale, 69. A TV dramatist known for his social realism, Bleasdale (right in picture) has written series including 'Boys from the Black Stuff' and 'GBH'. Married with three grown-up children, he lives in Liverpool. I first met Les in Venice 20 years ago ... Anyway, Venice. I was there with my wife, Julie, to mark our 25th wedding anniversary; Les was there with his then-wife, Amanda Holden, to celebrate their first ... 30 show all ....
Richard Billingham: ‘I just hated growing up in that tower block’
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The photographer was a pioneer of ‘squalid realism’ with his images of his parents’ dreary, drunken existence in the Black Country, which won him a Turner prize nomination. Now, with the help of ‘White Dee’, he’s turning their life into a feature film. Richard Billingham didn’t take a photograph until he was 19 ... He then trained his viewfinder on Ray ... Twitter ... In tone, it is pitched somewhere between Samuel Beckett and Alan Bleasdale ... “Yes....
'It's great that Judi, Helen and I are still up there'
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From her stripy velvet armchair in the library of the chic hotel where we meet, Julie Walters is inspecting her black sheepskin boots ... Share Go To ... Despite it all - the awards, the fame, the love - there is still more than a touch of the firebrand who started her career at Liverpool's revolutionary Everyman Theatre before she burst on to our screens in Willy Russell's Educating Rita and Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff ... Sorry....
Les Dennis is sticking around in Coronation Street: 'I've just signed for another year'
Edit Digital Spy 01 Mar 2016Brookside creator Phil Redmond: ‘Northern powerhouse? Northern slaughterhouse, more like’
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The creator of Grange Hill and Hollyoaks once blew up half of Emmerdale. Now he’s written a debut crime novel about the state of the north-west – and has some bold suggestions for the future of Channel 4 ... Add a few years and it could be Liam Gallagher, giving Cheshire the evils for having to do the school run ... “I’m always getting mistaken for other people … Alan Bleasdale, Willy Russell,” he says, as we drive straight out of Runcorn ... ....
'Tarmacademy' plan to cash in on £250m Liverpool roadworks
Edit BBC News 07 Dec 2015
Liverpool City Council will consider the plans at a meeting on Friday. It would see a new generation of Liverpudlians work with asphalt - known as the "Black Stuff" - and trigger memories of local writer Alan Bleasdale's well-known 1978 TV play and subsequent 1980s series ... ....
Guardian Live event: An evening with Michael Palin
Edit The Guardian 05 Nov 2015
Palin has also starred in award-winning TV dramas (Alan Bleasdale's GBH), a Hollywood feature film (A Fish Called Wanda) and presented a host of critically acclaimed travel documentaries (Around the World in 80 days, Pole to Pole, Himalaya) ... ....
Colin Welland: an enduringly popular presence in British TV and cinema
Edit The Guardian 03 Nov 2015
... the likes of Alan Clarke (The Hallelujah Handshake), and Michael Apted (Kisses at Fifty, Jack Point) ... As a product of the same (almost entirely male) TV-writing generation that spawned Jack Rosenthal, Alan Bleasdale and Mike Leigh, Welland’s sensibilities were formed in this prolific era – which he was quick to acknowledge in that same Oscar speech....
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