The boys are back in a blast from the past

IN 1982, Alan Bleasdale's TV series Boys from the Blackstuff about unemployed Liverpudlian road-workers distilled the Thatcherite evisceration of regional communities and working practices.

- Nick Curtis

I could do that." The late Bernard Hill turned Yosser into an emblem of disenfranchisement on screen: here, Sloane shows what happens when male pride is eaten away by shame. His Yosser is also very funny, though my dim memory of Hill's screen incarnation is of heartbreaking desolation. While Blackstuff has Graham's customary blend of hard politics and demotic entertainment, it's not his subtlest work. But this is still a blast from the past which echoes today: flawed but stirring.

Until June 8, then at the Garrick from June 13 to August 3 Moore is the black swan of her red carpet bevy DEMI MOORE dazzled at the Los Angeles screening of her Disney+ show Feud: Capote vs The Swans last night alongside co-stars Naomi Watts, Diane Lane and Chloë Sevigny.