GBH

[Tim Hall]

I've been watching GBH (originally broadcast 1991) on Channel 4 on demand. 

That Alan Bleasdale writes well.

[Biff]

Surely is. Watched Boys From The Blackstuff last week. Still very powerful after all these years.

[Wowbagger]

I've been watching GBH (originally broadcast 1991) on Channel 4 on demand. 

That Alan Bleasdale writes well.

Wasn't that the one in which Michael Palin was a head teacher and Robert Lindsay was Michael Murray?

[Biff]

Yup.

[Exit Stage Left]

I was working as a builder's labourer in the summer holidays when the original 'Blackstuff' was screened. It struck a chord in the brew-cabin, as the characters were perfectly drawn. Bleasdale worked in the office of a blacktop company in Kirkby called Maktar. There are still remnants of his directorship details online.
GBH annoyed the hard-left, as it was based on Derek Hatton and the Militant Tendency.

[Wowbagger]

Jan and I have just watched the first episode. I can't believe that it was more than 20 years ago - but then again I can. Brilliant stuff.

[Wowbagger]

We have watched an episode a night for 4 nights. This is something like a record for me.

It didn't really occur to me before that this isn't really a play about politics, it's about madness.

[rogerzilla]

Ah, Derek "Degsy" Hatton, who reinvented himself as an arch-capitalist and radio DJ.  Housewives' favourite, you see.

[rafletcher]

I watched (at the time) the original  Boys from the Blacksuff play, which was excellent, but never really got into the following series. Same with Londons Burning. 

[Bledlow]

Ah, Derek "Degsy" Hatton, who reinvented himself as an arch-capitalist and radio DJ. 

Re-invented himself? I always thought his politics were a convenient coat, & his true ideology was self-promotion.