Yes I think so. Alan Bleasdale is a great writer. The other two pieces of his work mentioned in the article were excellent especially ' Boys from the Blackstuff ' which told the story of five Liverpool lads out of work during Thatchers' reign of terror in the Eighties. The other piece, 'The Monocled Mutineer' told the true story of a British soldier who deserted from the army some time during WWI and went on the run from the law. He launched a sort of one-man crime wave and was chased the length and breadth of the UK, hiding at one time incidently in a small chapel a few miles from here. I believe he was eventually shot dead by armed police somewhere in the Lake District. Anyway with a writer of Bleasdales pedigree the new Laconia story should be well worth watching.
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