Shane Meadows to direct 18th century-set TV drama series The Gallows Pole cineuropa.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cineuropa.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Shane Meadows will direct The Gallows Pole, telling the story of the Cragg Vale Coiners. Photo: PA ACCLAIMED director of This Is England Shane Meadows is to create a television series set in West Yorkshire for the BBC. Meadows, whose film and subsequent TV series on skinhead culture in Northern England drew critical acclaim and cult status, is to adapt the book The Gallows Pole for TV. The Gallows Pole, a novel by Benjamin Myers, fictionalises the true story of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners and is set during the Industrial Revolution in 18th Century West Yorkshire. It follows Hartley as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to become counterfeiters, starting a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.
19 May 2021 : Nathan Griffin Writer/Director Shane Meadows. Revered writer/director Shane Meadows will tackle his first ever television drama for the BBC with Irelands Oscar-nominated production company Element Pictures.
The Gallows Pole is based on Benjamin Myers’ 2017 novel of the same name, and fictionalises the remarkable true story of the rise and fall of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners.
Set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in eighteenth century Yorkshire, the compelling drama follows the enigmatic David Hartley, as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.
This Is England Creator Shane Meadows Unveils New BBC Series The Gallows Pole exclaim.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from exclaim.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.