The quality of Mersey – Why The Boys From The Blackstuff still matters
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved |
| 0:05.5 | photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course. |
| 0:11.8 | Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college? |
| 0:13.0 | I loved going to college. |
| 0:14.0 | It's good you can retrain and do something. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
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| 0:55.9 | theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome back to the bunker the Bitesize News and Politics |
| 1:14.2 | podcast I'm Andrew Harrison listeners of a certain age my age will have been |
| 1:19.0 | saddened here on May the 5th of the death of the actor Bernard Hill according the papers, he was famous to playing King Theodin in the Lord of the Rings movie |
| 1:26.4 | trilogy or the Titanic's doomed Captain Smith. |
| 1:30.1 | But to anybody who was watching television in 1982 he was synonymous with one character whose significance out grew television |
| 1:36.5 | Yossa Hughes from Alan Bleasdale's Landmark series The Boys and the Black Stuff. |
| 1:40.9 | An ordinary man broken down and driven to mental |
| 1:43.7 | collapse by the loss of his job and his children and by careless authorities to |
| 1:47.5 | him he was just another idle scouser, Yossa became a true icon of the 1980s and the cruelty of a government which |
| 1:54.0 | abandoned old working-class areas. His desperate pleading catchphrase |
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