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Can a new access scheme get more working-class people into the TV industry?

“TV was everything to me,” said British playwright James Graham at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival’s MacTaggart lecture on August 20. The dramatist used his recollections of the television he watched in his youth together with tales of his working-class background to discuss a possible future of TV – including…

The Conversation

James Graham calls for greater working-class representation in TV during MacTaggart lecture

Graham called social class ‘everyone’s least favourite diversity and representation category’

The Independent UK

Sherwood series 2: who’s who in the BBC drama’s return

Evening Standard

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Sherwood writer says TV industry should treat class like other inequalities

James Graham says lack of working-class people in programme-making should be seen as a diversity issue

The Guardian - UK

How to watch 'Sherwood' season 2 online from anywhere

A new season of the BAFTA-winning drama about life and death in the post-industrial Midlands. Watch "Sherwood" season 2 online from anywhere and potentially for free.

Tom’s Guide

The Guide #152: Sherwood, band T-shirt etiquette and more reader questions answered

In this week’s newsletter: Is James Graham’s drama its generation’s ‘state of the nation’ show? And why you should wear a Slipknot shirt to a Sugababes gig

The Guardian - UK

Sherwood season 2 gets release date and first trailer

Lesley Manville is among the stars of Sherwood season 2, which will be out very soon...

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First home buyers rentvesters on the rise as they step into the housing market

The number of first home buyers renting out their property has risen 25 per cent.

The Canberra Times

‘I read the new scripts and nearly died!’: the return of Sherwood – the drama that gripped a nation

James Graham’s series about a divided former mining town was a genre-defying smash. So where does they go with series two? The writer and stars talk about guns, Keir Starmer and 2022’s most unpredictable plot twist

The Guardian - UK

James Graham gives Sailor urge to fire at St Helens

Utility Tristan Sailor will aim to secure a regular starting position at St Helens when he leaves the Brisbane Broncos at the end of the season.

AAP

Theatre can be a force for change – I went looking for it on the Italy/Slovenia border

In a city belonging to two nations, I hoped for art that could heal suspicion and bridge political divides. Instead I found timidity, says the Guardian’s chief theatre critic, Arifa Akbar

The Guardian - UK

Gareth Southgate tried to unite rather than divide, says Dear England writer

Manager ‘was everything we didn’t have in our politics’, insists James Graham as he rewrites ending of play

The Guardian - UK

Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport

From the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality – and life in Britain today

The Guardian - UK

Gareth Southgate has proved that quiet competence can lift a nation – it’s a lesson that goes far beyond sport

The England football manager once derided as ‘woke’ and ‘soft’ has succeeded where his predecessors failed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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The Independent UK

Jude Bellingham added to BBC’s Dear England adaptation after last-minute bicycle kick goal

Playwright James Graham says the length and ending of the BBC version will depend on England’s performance at Euro 2024

The Guardian - UK

Golden boy to whipping boy: how England turned on Gareth Southgate

The manager of the national team could be on his way out whatever happens in Euro 24, but critics should be careful what they wish for say his supporters

WhatToWatch

Brian and Maggie: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

Brian and Maggie on Channel 4 features Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter as TV interviewer Brian Walden and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

TechRadar

Want to use AI to help you reach 10,000 steps per day? Outdoors app AllTrails debuts new ChatGPT and AI features

Hiking app AllTrails introduces a brand new look and features, using machine learning to sort through reviews and pics.

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The Independent UK

Playwright James Graham: ‘We’re still living in Thatcher’s country’

As his stage adaptation of ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’ transfers from the National to the West End, Britain’s leading political playwright – and busiest writer in the country – talks politics, football, Harvey Weinstein and work addiction with Ellie Harrison

Advnture

AllTrails sees Apple Maps update, comes out swinging with suite of new features – here are the 3 we're most excited about

The new features are available to everyone on the free version of the popular hiking app

The Independent UK

Dear England playwright to alter ending depending on Euro 2024 result

An England win at this summer’s tournament could affect the ending of Olivier-winning play

The Guardian - UK

Play about England football team to return with potential for new final act

Exclusive: Playwright James Graham says he will rewrite Dear England depending on outcome of Euros

The Independent UK

Boys from the Blackstuff review: Alan Bleasdale adaptation needs to feel more like a play for today

Leading political playwright James Graham is burdened by the need to preserve this classic piece of writing about unemployed men in 1980s Liverpool, but the show comes alive when it finds the raw edges of poverty and desperation

Evening Standard

Boys From the Blackstuff at the National Theatre review: flawed but stirring

This is a blast from the past, which still echoes today

Evening Standard

OPINION - It’s vital that culture can continue shedding important light on undersung campaigns

A run of recent dramas based on real-life issues - including ITV’s galvanising show Mr Bates vs the Post Office, and James Graham’s new play Punch - remind us of the incredible power of culture

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