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Posts Tagged ‘Ronan Bennett’

Plot thickens in second series of Channel 4’s urban saga Top Boy

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 4 September 2013 at 13:55

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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Top Boy – review

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 6 November 2011 at 15:54
Ra'nell Top Boy

Channel 4 Hackney-based drama Top Boy rises to the occasion

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Top boy: stories of Hackney’s young drug dealers

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 9 October 2011 at 18:59
Ronan Bennett

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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Britney Spears shoots Criminal video as council bars gang drama filming on Hackney estates

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 23 September 2011 at 20:47
Ronan Bennett

Replica gun used at Stoke Newington Town Hall as council fears residents risk having ‘neighbourhoods stigmatised’

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