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Bill Morrison
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - Bill Morrison, who has died aged 71, formed – with Alan Bleasdale, Willy Russell and Chris Bond – the quartet of edgy Liverpool playwrights known in the 1980s as the Gang of Four. The Gang of Four plus one. LR (standing) Chris Bullcok
Guardian: Boxing Day Premier League clockwatch
[The Guardian] - Talking of Greg Scully, Ian Copestake writes to ask: "How did Gregg Scully survive the ignominy of being named after an Alan Bleasdale character who was obsessed with Liverpool FC?" My medical sources tell me that being named after an Alan Bleasdale
From riots to royal weddings: how was like being back in 1981
www.mirror.co.uk
[Mirror.co.uk] - Watch Alan Bleasdale's brilliant portrayal of the early 80s Thatcherite recession Boys From The Blackstuff, and the landscape doesn't look as bleak today. The vast majority of us are better off than we were. It's just that the rich got considerably
Tony Marchant's Public Enemies
www.standard.co.uk
[Evening Standard] - "I have to say, apart from Alan Bleasdale, there was Our Friends In The North, (Marchant's 1997, state-of-1990s-London eight-parter) Holding On, and there was In a Land of Plenty, which all had the same ambition as The Wire. This was 10, 12 years ago.
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