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	Bleasdale, Alan
		Alan Bleasdale is one of the most successful and influential writers working in British television today.
		Bleasdale's first success as a writer came with the development of the character of Scully, a Liverpool youth whose anarchic adventures challenge the authority of those responsible for the impoverished society in which he lives.
		Bleasdale's political message was more explicitly stated here than in Boys from the Blackstuff, but the fiction was once again enriched by grotesque comedy, largely associated with the casting of Michael Palin, a member of the Monty Python troupe, as an unassuming school teacher who inadvertently becomes a symbol of resistance to the new order.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/bleasdaleal/bleasdaleal.htm (879 words)

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	Masterpiece Theatre \| Oliver Twist \| The Adaption
		Alan Bleasdale cherished an ambition to bring a Dickens novel to the screen for 25 years.
		Alan Bleasdale concurs: "We wanted someone beautiful as only nine-year-olds can be, someone who the camera would love and someone who could not only act, but who was intelligent.
		Bleasdale admits he writes "with particular actors clearly in my mind." And because of his reputation and the strength of his work, many of them sign up for Bleasdale dramas again and again.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/ei_theadaption.html (2243 words)

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		Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff gripped television audiences in 1982 with its bleak, fiercely funny exploration of the effect of the UK's economic depression on a group of Merseyside characters, originally introduced in his 1978 play, The Blackstuff.
		Bleasdale's writing is unsparing in both its pain and its unconditional affection for characters being pushed to the very limit of civilisation.
		There's only one additional feature, but it's a treasure: The Blackstuff, Alan Bleasdale's original 90-minute play, is presented as a prelude to the series with the bonus of an insightful commentary from the author and the director, Jim Goddard.
	www.robhome.ath.cx /ed2kstuff/Sharereactor_site_backup_offline/Wc5e5662fbbcc.htm (338 words)

	Bleasdale and Kilfoyle give Labour hard time
		ALAN BLEASDALE, the Left-wing writer of the television political dramas GBH and Boys from the Blackstuff, has consulted Peter Kilfoyle, the former minister, over a multi-million pound drama that attacks Tony Blair and Labour.
		Bleasdale made his name satirising the policies of Margaret Thatcher's government with Boys from the Blackstuff then turned on the far-Left infiltration of the Labour Party by the Militant Tendency in GBH.
		Bleasdale said: "It is a love story between a man and a woman who meet up after 23 years.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/06/04/nbleas04.html (833 words)

	Books \| Artful or dodgy? The Guardian's view
		Alan Bleasdale's Oliver Twist begins - as Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins - with Oliver's mother turning up heavily pregnant and in a very sorry state at the workhouse.
		(Actually Bleasdale has a short scene on a cliff first, with her wondering whether to throw herself/her locket into the sea, but we'll ignore that.) Oliver is duly born, amid lots of pain and poverty, his mother dies, and it looks like ITV's new £6m dramatisation is going to be quite faithful to the novel.
		Many of Bleasdale's normal posse are involved; Julie Walters is a saucy Mrs Mann, Robert Lindsay is barely recognisable but refreshingly not over-the-top as Fagin (who, incidentally, is never referred to as being a Jew).
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3933186-99931,00.html (508 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - Boys From The Blackstuff directed by Director: Philip Saville, Jim ...
		Liverpool-born Bleasdale was a teacher in the early 1970s, and wrote a series of stories about a Scouse tearaway by the name of Francis Scully to entertain his pupils.
		Bleasdale's writing is accomplished and powerful, with the central characters amongst the most fully-developed in TV history.
		Bleasdale provides an intruiging, chatty commentary to the original Black Stuff play, along with its director, Jim Goddard, but sadly it doesn't go on to cover the entire series – the writer could have been accompanied, perhaps, by the main actor from each individual episode.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/boys_from_the_blackstuff.php (1350 words)

	Liverpool Culture 2008 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For one night only, Alan Bleasdale and Willy Russell, who have wrtitten some of the most memorable dramas of the past thirty years, are to perform at the Liverpool Playhouse to support the work of Sahir House.
		Alan and Willy are both patrons of the organisation and will present an exclusive evening of words and music on Sunday, November 30 to acknowledge World Aids Day.
		For One Night Only with Alan Bleasdale and Willy Russell is at the Liverpool Playhouse on 30 November 2003 at 7.30pm.
	www.liverpoolculture.com /get-news-and-events/news_detail.asp?ID=365 (319 words)

	Untitled Document
		Born in Liverpool on 23 March 1946 Alan Bleasdale is one of the most influential writers in television.
		He was a school teacher until 1975 but since becoming a professional writer he has written two novels, a feature film, numerous short stories, eleven stage plays, six television plays and four television series.
		Bleasdale's first success came with a series of stories presented on Radio Merseyside in 1971.
	www.timbosliverpool.co.uk /entertainment/television/bleasdale.htm (307 words)

	Alan Bleasdale: Give us a job! - Independent Online Edition > Profiles
		Alan Bleasdale is one of our finest TV dramatists and, boy, is he angry.
		Alan Bleasdale has been spending a lot of time on the isolation ward lately.
		His mother, Bleasdale says, was "very insecure and completely lacking in confidence" (unlike his own wife, Julia, to whom he has been married since 1970, and with whom he has had three children, now 35, 32 and 30).
	news.independent.co.uk /people/profiles/article624121.ece (2334 words)

	screenonline: Bleasdale, Alan (1946-) Biography
		After training as a teacher, he taught for four years in a secondary modern school, where he wrote a series of short stories about a teenager called Scully, originally to entertain his pupils.
		The stories were broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside in 1971, read by the author, and Bleasdale subsequently used Scully as the basis for a novel, stage and television plays, and a seven-part television series.
		Bleasdale's megalomaniacal council leader, Michael Murray, was a thinly-disguised version of Derek Hatton, the outspoken deputy-leader of Liverpool City Council.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/566774 (807 words)

	Liverpool City Council Bleasdale's boys are no 1 liver-lit hit
		Alan Bleasdale's seminal plays, which were written for TV, have come out number one in a top 10 poll of Liverpool's best literature.
		Bleasdale, 56, was stunned by the vote, which was commissioned for World Book Day and based on the 10 most popular books hired out by Liverpool's Libraries.
		Bleasdale, who revealed his dream job would be ''to adapt ''my bible'' Catch 22'', added: ''I spent my entire youth in Huyton Library and playing in Jubilee Park.
	www.liverpool.gov.uk /News/newsdetail_0253.asp (564 words)

	Alan Bleasdale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boys from the Blackstuff, the 1982 BBC drama serial which brought Bleasdale national acclaim.
		Alan Bleasdale (born March 23, 1946 in Liverpool, England, UK) is a British television dramatist, best known for several powerful social realist drama serials based around the lives of ordinary people.
		An interview with Alan Bleasdale from Liverpool's 'Nerve' magazine
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Bleasdale (334 words)

	Oliver Twist
		Screenwriter (and co-executive producer) Alan Bleasdale has invented a backstory that runs parallel to Dickens’ narrative and elevates minor characters to leading roles.
		Alan Bleasdale’s teleplay also begins with Oliver’s birth, but the scene dissolves to a flashback of the doomed love affair between Oliver’s unwed middle class parents, Agnes Fleming (Sarah Miles) and Edwin Leeford (Tim Dutton).
		In Bleasdale’s adaptation, Monks -- played with gleeful relish by actor Marc Warren -- has a meatier role as a sickly mama’s boy plagued by epileptic seizures, savage rages, and a titanic Oedipal complex.
	www.culturevulture.net /Television/OliverTwist.htm (1052 words)

	BBC - Liverpool Stage - Russell and Bleasdale
		On 30th November at the Liverpool Playhouse, Alan Bleasdale and Willy Russell, two of Liverpool's greatest writers, come together to support the work of local charity Sahir House.
		Alan Bleasdale and Willy Russell will present an evening of words and music to acknowledge World Aids Day.
		Described by Alan (who suffers from stagefright) as 'two hours and twenty minutes of terror,' this exclusive show will feature a blend of readings from their substantial bodies of work, other found work, and musical performances.
	www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/stage/2003/11/bleasdale_russell/index.shtml (503 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Oliver Twist \| Teacher's Guide: Teaching Oliver Twist - Looking at Film
		Screenwriter Alan Bleasdale, who dramatized Oliver Twist, was delighted to have the opportunity to adapt a Dickens novel.
		Bleasdale lets the viewer in on the secret in the first episode.
		Study the pages side by side and examine how Alan Bleasdale used and adapted Dickens's dialogue for his screenplay.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/tg_teachingtwist_film.html (902 words)

	icLiverpool - Why I'm backing the ECHO appeal concert
		ALAN Bleasdale suffers badly from stage fright - but he's not going to let it stop him from appearing in front of a packed Philharmonic Hall for the Liverpool ECHO Tsunami Gala Concert.
		Alan explains: "Tamana is a first assistant director and she worked on a film in Thailand several years ago.
		Alan has already written the address he will deliver at the gala concert on Friday, February 11.
	icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=15086933&method=full&siteid=50061&headline=why-i-m-backing-the-echo-appeal-concert---name_page.html (473 words)

	Oliver Twist - David Copperfield Reviews - Robert Giddings
		Alan Bleasdale, a distinguished dramatist in his own right, has achieves some impressive effects in Oliver Twist.
		Alan Bleasdale was anxious about three aspects of Oliver Twist which would be 'problematic for a modern television audience'-the level of coincidence, latent anti-Semitism and tendency to sentimentality.
		Bleasdale's hand can clearly be discerned time and again in the way he feeds plot motivation into scenes throughout, toning down the young novelist's tendency to free wheel through the Manichean world he had created to locate the action.
	charlesdickenspage.com /copperfield-twist_giddings.html (2046 words)

	Boys From The Blackstuff (1980)
		The larcenous Loggo (Alan Igbon) and kind, sensitive Chrissie (Michael Angelis) are joined by Yosser (Hill) and the ailing former union leader George (magnificently played by Peter Kerrigan).
		In a truly heart-rending finale, George's health is failing fast, but despite this he continues to act as the legal and social counsel to the poor and disenfranchised in his community.
		Whilst carrying out a job in Middlesbrough, the lads are joined by Dixie's son Kevin (Gary Bleasdale), and are soon approached by a couple of duplicitous gypsies, who con them into doing a "foreigner" (another job, carried out for cash in hand, which is not sanctioned by their employer).
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=3468&SID=2&PID=224567 (2164 words)

	Alan Bleasdale -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alan Bleasdale -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The same year, he wrote another one-off play for (Click link for more info and facts about BBC ONE) BBC ONE, entitled The Black Stuff.
		The series, (Click link for more info and facts about Boys from the Blackstuff) Boys from the Blackstuff, was transmitted on (Click link for more info and facts about BBC TWO) BBC TWO in 1982, and won much praise.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alan_bleasdale.htm (217 words)

	icLiverpool - Bleasdale welcomes BBC move to North
		WRITER Alan Bleasdale last night told of his hopes for Liverpool's burgeoning film and television industry following the announcement of BBC jobs moving to Manchester.
		Having considered the implications to Liverpool, Mr Bleasdale drew parallels with past media operations in the north and their effect on the city.
		Mr Bleasdale said: "When Granada was much bigger in Manchester than it currently is, Liverpool was indeed seen as the second pond to them and it did have a good knock-on effect.
	icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=14959667&method=full&siteid=50061&headline=bleasdale-welcomes-bbc-move-to-north-name_page.html (198 words)

	The Boys From The Blackstuff
		This novel by Keith Miles, based on Alan Bleasdale's hilarious and touching tragi-comic scripts, captures all the warmth, humour and depth of feeling of the original.
		Written by Alan Bleasdale as a series spinning off from his 1980 one-off TV play The Black Stuff, it followed five Liverpudlian working-class men struggling to make ends meet in a time of industrial decline and rising unemployment.
		Their complaints were essentially two-fold: one, that society owed them a living and was letting them down, and two, that they weren't allowed to claim unemployment benefit and work cash-in-hand at the same time.
	www.trashfiction.co.uk /blackstuff.html (1045 words)

	Alan Bleasdale - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alan Bleasdale - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Alan Bleasdale contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Alan_Bleasdale (332 words)

	Alan Bleasdale
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		Scully was a young man from Liverpool, and Bleasdales plays represented a more realistic, contemporary depiction of life there than would usually been seen in the media.The character became so successful that Bleasdale wrote a stage play, two novels and in 1978 a BBC Television play about the character.
		It established Bleasdale as one of Britains most important television writers and social commentators.Since Boys from the Blackstuff, Bleasdale has gone on to pen several other important television dramas, including The Monocled Mutineer (1986, BBC ONE) and G.B.H. (1991, Channel 4).
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	Boys From The Blackstuff reviewed by AllZone4DVD.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was a social commentary of the times, and opened the eyes of the rest of the country to the plight of their countrymen.
		The series itself was spawned from an earlier play by Alan Bleasdale, (The Blackstuff), which is listed as an extra as part of this presentation.
		The characters were so successful that Bleasdale was asked to produce a series.
	www.allzone4dvd.net /review_details.htm?id=573 (789 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bleasdale Alan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bleasdale Alan
		Bleasdale, Alan (1946- ), British television writer, playwright, and novelist.
		Bleasdale was born in Liverpool and, apart from three years teaching...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Bleasdale_Alan.html (87 words)

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