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The Latest Breaking News from Michael Socha

Pagans, folk rock and no script: the making of The Gallows Pole, the BBC’s wacky new historical drama

Cult director Shane Meadows takes the helm to tell a uniquely Yorkshire story

Evening Standard

Actor Michael Socha: ‘Did I fall in with the wrong people? No, I was the wrong people’

First cast by Shane Meadows, in This is England, Socha now stars in his latest, The Gallows Pole. He describes how acting saved him from a life of violence – and why he loves a madcap scheme

The Guardian - UK

The Gallows Pole: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and more on Shane Meadows' period drama

The Gallows Pole on BBC2 tells the story of a gang of 18th-century weavers and land-workers who embark on an ambitious criminal plot.

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Big Boys Don’t Cry review – a former abuse victim confronts his harrowing childhood

Based on true events, the lasting impact of trauma suffered at a children’s home are examined in this painful British crime drama

The Guardian - UK

The stars of BBC's Being Human whose glittering careers were launched by the UK answer to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

You might have caught the supernatural show by chance when it was first on our screens some 14 years ago

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