The Boys From The Blackstuff is in our bloodstream
This week: Director Kate Wasserberg on taking an iconic TV drama to the Liverpool stage; an alternative Leeds in Slung Low's film The Magician; Lakeland Arts' focus on women and landscape
LIVERPOOL is almost unrecognisable from the city that played a starring role in Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From The Blackstuff, which first aired on BBC2 40 years ago.
Gone are most of the old bombsites, those empty spaces that were once as much a part of the city’s fabric …
