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The Guide #220: The best things we watched, read and listened to this year – that weren’t from 2025

We revisit forgotten noirs, rediscovered albums and retro games that stole the year

The Guardian - UK

Actor Robert Lindsay on his role in Sherwood and growing up in a mining town: ‘There were terrible confrontations between fathers and sons’

The star of Citizen Smith, GBH and much more on the ‘genius’ of James Graham’s BBC drama, his unlikely way into acting, and learning to simmer down on social media

The Guardian - UK

Playwright James Graham: ‘We’re still living in Thatcher’s country’

As his stage adaptation of ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’ transfers from the National to the West End, Britain’s leading political playwright – and busiest writer in the country – talks politics, football, Harvey Weinstein and work addiction with Ellie Harrison

The Independent UK

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Boys from the Blackstuff review: Alan Bleasdale adaptation needs to feel more like a play for today

Leading political playwright James Graham is burdened by the need to preserve this classic piece of writing about unemployed men in 1980s Liverpool, but the show comes alive when it finds the raw edges of poverty and desperation

The Independent UK

Bernard Hill obituary

Versatile actor whose role as Yosser Hughes in the BBC’s 1982 series Boys from the Blackstuff made him a television star

The Guardian - UK

‘Gissa job!’ How Bernard Hill created one of TV’s most tragic and unforgettable characters

Playing unhinged head-butting Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff made Hill a legend. But, from Titanic to The Lord of the Rings, his entire 50-year career was outstanding

The Guardian - UK

‘The timing was impeccable’: why it took a TV series to bring the Post Office scandal to light

Despite a two-year inquiry and years of campaigning, it was the four-hour drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office that enabled the British public to pay proper attention to the unbelievable horrors of this story

The Guardian - UK

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‘I was asked to show my legs at my first TV audition’: Lindsay Duncan on surviving peak chauvinism

As she plays an unsatisfied woman seeking dangerous thrills in the TV drama Truelove, the star remembers the shocking sexism she had to endure on her way to becoming one of our classiest actors

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Boys from the Blackstuff; Vanya; Mlima’s Tale – review

Alan Bleasdale’s 80s TV classic about jobless workers hits home in James Graham’s adaptation; Andrew Scott is not alone in his one-man Chekhov; and Lynn Nottage adds imagination to a tale of ivory smuggling

The Guardian - UK

‘The despair is the same’: Alan Bleasdale and James Graham on bringing back Boys from the Blackstuff

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

The Guardian - UK

Jean Boht obituary

Actor who played Nellie Boswell in the popular BBC television sitcom Bread

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Succession; The Gallows Pole; Changing Ends; University Challenge – review

Succession bows out in Shakespearean style; Shane Meadows changes tack with a gobby, grubby period drama; Alan Carr meets his sitcom younger self; and a TV beast exits with a smile…

The Guardian - UK

Liverpool's lost TV shows from Corrie spin-off to 'disgusting' show pulled by ITV bosses

Some of these haven't been aired in decades

Liverpool Echo

Lost Liverpool pub made famous in iconic 1980s television show

The pub featured in a classic episode of a BAFTA-winning series

Liverpool Echo

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Manchester Evening News

The Blackley-born actor with a famous catchphrase who made Hollywood history

Bernard Hill has starred in some of the biggest films ever

Liverpool Echo

Boys From the Blackstuff to be retold 40 years on at Liverpool's Royal Court

"Sadly the struggles of the 1980s don't feel like history, we are all feeling the pain and the rage, the absurd cruelty and confusion of those times in the here and now"

The Guardian - UK

Go on, gizza play: Boys from the Blackstuff lives again – on stage

Alan Bleasdale works with Sherwood creator James Graham to revisit TV masterpiece

Manchester Evening News

Coronation Street, Emmerdale, EastEnders and Hollyoaks stars who started out as child stars

Their careers started elsewhere and at a very young age

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‘I was in front of an audience but all I could think was, I could be dying’: Robert Lindsay on acting, ageing – and surviving cancer

The actor, who has starred in everything from sitcoms to Shakespeare, talks about his family rows over Brexit, having his phone hacked – and why he did not want to be like Laurence Olivier

Liverpool Echo

Long forgotten Liverpool TV show that was 'ahead of its time'

Written by Alan Bleasdale, the surreal escapades of Huyton schoolboy Francis Scully featured the acting debuts of Kenny Dalglish and Elvis Costello

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