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With Loach as director, Allen wrote the screenplays for three feature-length films: Hidden Agenda (1990), which portrays the murder of an American civil rights activist in Belfast, Raining Stones (1993), a kitchen-sink tragicomedy set in Middleton, near Manchester, and, Allen's final dramatic work, Land and Freedom (1995), telling the story of ...
Jun 14, 2022 · Christopher returns to Manchester to discover more about Jim Allen, the playwright behind The Spongers - a man who "wrote beautifully about real people's lives". His many works include...
BBC Radio 4 Extra. Gallery. Jim Allen: A Man of His Words. Christopher Eccleston looks at the life and works of the socialist playwright Jim Allen.
Jan 8, 2015 · Christopher Eccleston looks at the life and works of the socialist playwright Jim Allen. In 1978, Eccleston was inspired to work in television after watching the BBC Play For Today: The...
Scripts and plays by Jim Allen including background and research materials and publicity and reviews. Articles and interviews by Jim Allen in newspapers and magazines. Obituaries of Jim Allen and letters, booklet and publicity material for the Cornerhouse tribute celebrating Jim Allen's life and work on 7 Oct 2000.
Perdition is a 1987 stage play by Jim Allen. Its premiere at London's Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, in a production directed by Ken Loach, was abandoned because of protests, and criticism by two historians, over its controversial and tendentious claims.
Aug 31, 2021 · Jim Allen was a socialist writer of international significance, who made a major contribution to British TV drama in the 1960s and 1970s and to British film in the 1980s and 1990s. The Library is very pleased to house the Jim Allen archive, which his family have kindly entrusted to us.
