Alan Bleasdale worked as a schoolteacher before turning to writing. His first success was as a writer of radio drama with the production of the Scully stories for BBC Radio Merseyside. The character would later be turned in to a stage play, two novels and a television series.
Accordingly, where was boys from the black stuff set?
It was set in Liverpool, but it could have been in any city or town in Britain where men felt thrown on the scrapheap of life, no longer able to provide for their families. Boys From The Blackstuff focused on five such men, unemployed tarmac gang workers (hence the black stuff) struggling to find work.
Additionally, who said gis a job? Yosser
Thereof, how many episodes of blackstuff boys are there?
7 including original Play for Today episode and The Muscle Market
Who played Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff?
Bernard Hill Boys from the Blackstuff
