Liverpudlian TV show Boys from the Blackstuff was a huge hit when it first aired in 1982. Now, more than 40 years later, Alan ...

After debuting at Liverpool's Royal Court and successful London and West End transfers, James Graham's adaptation of Alan ...

One of Liverpool's most loved TV shows first came to our screens over 40 years ago. Alan Bleasdale’s series Boys From The Blackstuff, which was a sequel to the play The Black Stuff, followed ...

TV includes Boys from the Blackstuff, Scully, The Monocled Mutineer, G.B.H., Jake’s Progress, Melissa, Oliver Twist and The Sinking of the Laconia. Film includes No Surrender.

Boys from the Blackstuff cannot be described as a fresh take on a familiar story, but paradoxically, it also relies on its audience having seen the original series to fully appreciate it. This ...

The second act is far stronger than the first so to paraphrase a football term, Boys From The Blackstuff is definitely a play of two halves.

From Boys From The Blackstuff to Vicky Pollard, images of class on television.