UNBELIEVABLE: 2 - The Untold Story

Pagans, folk rock and no script: the making of The Gallows Pole, the BBC’s wacky new historical drama

Cult director Shane Meadows takes the helm to tell a uniquely Yorkshire story

Evening Standard · May 25, 2023

Actor Michael Socha: ‘Did I fall in with the wrong people? No, I was the wrong people’

First cast by Shane Meadows, in This is England, Socha now stars in his latest, The Gallows Pole.​ He describes how acting saved him from a life of violence – and why he loves a madcap scheme

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023

In brief: Dam Buster, The Cameraman, The Perfect Golden Circle – reviews

A portrait of Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb, a fascist family take a trip through 1930s Europe, and crop circle enthusiasts seek catharsis in the summer of 1989

The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2023

Cuddy by Benjamin Myers review – a visionary history

An Anglo-Saxon saint speaks down the centuries in a sensational piece of storytelling about Britain’s past and present

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2023

Benjamin Myers: ‘My comfort read? Viz’

The writer and journalist on Jon Savage’s punk bible, coming back to DH Lawrence and finding comfort in Wodehouse’s Eggs, Beans and Crumpets

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2023

The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers review – rollicking crop-circle folk tale

A spirited and anarchic novel about 80s outsiders on a quest to bring magic to the landscape

The Guardian - UK · May 28, 2022

Novelist Benjamin Myers talks crop circles and climate change in ‘The Perfect Golden Circle’

As night falls during the hot turbulent summer of 1989, two men slip into the darkened fields of England to manufacture strangely inspired artworks that transfix and baffle the nation.

The Orange County Register · May 18, 2022

Review: 'The Perfect Golden Circle,' by Benjamin Myers

In 1991, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley came clean: They — not aliens, or whatever the going theory was at the time — had taken planks of wood and lengths of rope and made crop circles in the south of England, starting in the late 1970s. What began as a…

Tribune News Service · May 18, 2022

The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers review – grand designs

In this folksy, magnetic tale, two outsiders seek healing and enlightenment by creating crop formations in a Wiltshire field

The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2022

Loving dad killed by his drunk son had repeatedly begged him to stop drinking so much

Neil Farrington, 51, was brutally killed when his own son flew into a drunken rage where witnesses said he smashed his dad's face into the ground and 'volleyed' his head

Daily Mirror · Feb 6, 2022