Posts Tagged ‘Ronan Bennett’
Plot thickens in second series of Channel 4’s urban saga Top Boy
Mayor Jules Pipe refused to allow show’s producers to film on Hackney estates, but that hasn’t prevented them creating ‘damn good drama’
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Channel 4 Hackney-based drama Top Boy rises to the occasion
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Ronan Bennett spent two years interviewing gang members in east London for his powerfully personal TV drama, Top Boy. Here he describes their hidden, hopeless world – and the lengths they’ll go to escape from it
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Replica gun used at Stoke Newington Town Hall as council fears residents risk having ‘neighbourhoods stigmatised’
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