‘Our industry should be appalled’: Brassic creator laments lack of working class people in TV and film

Danny Brocklehurst at the Star and Garter pub in Manchester, the set for the fictional Crow’s Nest in Brassic. Photograph: David Barnett/The Observer

Leaning on the bar of The Crow’s Nest pub in the northern town of Hawley, Danny Brocklehurst has something to say.

“I think our industry should be collectively appalled that only 9% of people who work in it would declare themselves as coming from a working class background,” he says.