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The Virtues (2019), starring Niamh Algar, Mark O’Halloran and Helen Behan.
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Set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in 18
th-century Yorkshire, Meadows’ new directorial effort follows the rise and fall of the enigmatic David Hartley, as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers – known as the Cragg Vale Coiners – to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. Talking about the project, Meadows explained: “
The Gallows Pole is an incredible true story, little known outside of Yorkshire, about a group of very naughty men and women who started clipping and counterfeiting coins out in the Moors, as a way to keep themselves and their community alive. [.] I’ve never made a period drama before, so I’m absolutely buzzing, and to be doing it with