Alan Bleasdale’s groundbreaking TV drama ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’ brought the harsh realities of mass unemployment in Liverpool’s working-class to the fore. Even today, the drama resonates with its portrayal of a group of road-laying workers struggling to survive the bleak job market whilst being hounded by government jobcentre officers attempting to reduce benefits under… Continue reading ‘The despair is the same’: Alan Bleasdale and James Graham on bringing back Boys from the Blackstuff