Shane Meadows
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The Age of Static: Can we really understand a country by its TV?
- Books
- December 10, 2020, 06:00
“Via television it is possible to construct an illuminating alternative history of the last two decades,” promises Phil Harrison in his introduction t(...)

Sideline Cut: Marcus Rashford proves himself a leading man off the pitch also
- English Soccer
- June 6, 2020, 12:00
Who knew that Greater Manchester had a sheriff? And how many of us would have guessed, if pushed for an answer, that his name is Eamonn O’Neal? And if(...)

Irish actor named as one of Britain’s rising stars
- Film
- October 30, 2019, 09:00
Irish actor Niamh Algar has been selected by Bafta as one of the rising stars of the British film industry. Algar, who was born in Mullingar, says sh(...)

Ardal O’Hanlon: On My Cultural Radar
- Culture
- October 19, 2019, 05:00
Current favourite book The book I’ve enjoyed the most recently is Kevin Barry’s Night Boat to Tangier. He created a great double act, Charlie and Maur(...)

‘Working-class people haven’t got a voice. That’s horrifying’
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 17, 2019, 05:30
Halfway through chatting with Jack Thorne in homely lounge in a London hotel, he looks behind me and addresses a passerby. “Hello. I was just talking(...)

Oonagh Murphy: On My Culture Radar
- Culture
- September 21, 2019, 05:00
Current favourite book The last book that stayed with me is This is London by Ben Judah. He interviews hundreds of people from different demographics(...)

Stephen Jones: On My Culture Radar
- Culture
- June 8, 2019, 05:00
Current favourite book I’m interested in history - I studied it at university - so I’m reading The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey Ward (...)

The Virtues takes us back in time, to dark happenings in 1980s Louth
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 15, 2019, 22:00
Chekhov once called for drama to be as naturalistic as possible by drawing one poignant example. “People eat their dinner, just eat their dinner,” he (...)

Helen Behan: I had impostor syndrome at the start, now I’m like a giddy child
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 11, 2019, 05:00
Writer and director Shane Meadows is a little too good at his job. Thirteen years since the release of the Bafta-winning film This Is England, the dra(...)

Paddy Considine: ‘I can’t remember the last big film I’ve seen that was any good’
- Film
- March 30, 2018
At first glance, Journeyman looks like another one of those appositely scrappy, noble British boxing films. Actor Paddy Considine’s second outing as a(...)