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From leaving addiction behind to getting slapped by Kano: Top Boy street casting maestro Des Hamilton tells his wildest stories

The Bafta winner, who has worked on the London thriller since its inception, fell into the casting business by chance. For the past two decades, he’s been passing some of that luck on by discovering new actors all around the country. He tells Nicole Vassell about spotting budding stars everywhere…

The Independent 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

The Gallows Pole: The real-life grisly story of the Cragg Vale Coiners

Directed by This Is England creator Shane Meadows, the biopic tells the tale of the deadly forgery gang who nearly sank the economy of 18th Century Britain

Manchester Evening News

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BBC's The Gallows Pole: Plot, cast, episodes and how to watch

New period drama The Gallows Pole is airing on the BBC

Wales Online

Thomas Turgoose: ‘He’s one of the biggest stars in the world – but he wanted to go to Wagamama every night’

The ‘This Is England’ star talks to Jacob Stolworthy about Shane Meadows’s new drama, appearing with Ed Sheeran in ‘Game of Thrones’, and his newfound friendship with Mark Ruffalo

The Independent UK

The Gallows Pole on BBC Two review: a three-hour galavant through Shane Meadows’ zany imagination

This Is England’s Shane Meadows reimagines one of Yorkshire’s most gripping tales

Evening Standard

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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