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Alan Bleasdale (born March 23, 1946 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, brought up in Huyton) is an English television dramatist, best known for several social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people. Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Huyton is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in Merseyside, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Social Realism, also known as Socio-Realism, is an Artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts Working class

Early life

From 1951-57, he went to the St. Aloysius Roman Catholic infant and junior Schools on Twig Lane in Huyton-with-Roby (then in Lancashire). From 1957-64, he went to Wade Deacon Grammar School on Birchfield Road in Widnes (now the Wade Deacon High School since 1974). Widnes is an industrial town within the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England with an urban area population of 57663 in In 1967, he obtained a teaching certificate from the Padgate College of Education (which became Warrington Collegiate Institute, now part of the University of Chester) on Winwick Road near Warrington. The University of Chester is a University based in the city of Chester in the United Kingdom. Warrington is a large town borough and Unitary authority area in Cheshire, England. In 1967, he married Julia Moses and they now have two sons and one daughter. For eight years he worked as a teacher at St Columba's Secondary Modern School (now St Columba's Catholic Primary School) on Hillside Road in Huyton from 1967-71, then King George V School (now The King George V & Elaine Bernacchi School and based in Bikenibeu in South Tarawa) on the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (now called Kiribati since 1979) in the Pacific Ocean from 1971-4, and lastly at Halewood Grange Comprehensive School (now known as Halewood College) on The Avenue in Halewood from 1974-5. South Tarawa (in Gilbertese and English Teinainano Urban Council or ABR The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were a British Protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 until 1 January 1976 when the islands were divided Kiribati or ( kirr-i-bas or KEE-ree-buhss ˈkiɾibas in Gilbertese) officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an Island nation located in The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions Halewood is a Civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in Merseyside, England. From 1975 to 1986 he worked as a playwright at the Liverpool Playhouse (becoming associate director) and the Contact Theatre in Manchester (owned by the University of Manchester). The Liverpool Playhouse is a Theatre in Williamson Square in the city of Liverpool, England. The Contact Theatre is a Theatre owned by The University of Manchester. The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England.

Broadcasting

His first success came as a writer of radio drama for the BBC, with several plays following the character of Scully being broadcast on his local station, BBC Radio Merseyside, in 1971. Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. Scully was a British Television drama with some comedy elements set in the city of Liverpool, England in the first half of the BBC Radio Merseyside is the BBC Local Radio service for the English metropolitan county of Merseyside and north Cheshire. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Scully was a young man from Liverpool, and Bleasdale's plays represented a more realistic, contemporary depiction of life there than was usually seen in the media.

The character became so successful that Bleasdale wrote a stage play, two novels and in 1978 a BBC Television play about the character. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) The same year, he wrote another one-off play for BBC One, entitled The Black Stuff. This latter play concerned the story of a group of Liverpudlian tarmac-layers - the 'black stuff' of the title - and a job in Middlesbrough that goes disastrously wrong for all of them resulting in the loss of their jobs. Middlesbrough ( IPA ( Received pronunciation) is a Town in the Tees Valley sub-region of the North East of England

Although the play remained untransmitted for two years as it waited for an available slot, on its eventual broadcast in 1980 it won much praise, and producer Michael Wearing of BBC English Regions Drama managed to commission the sequel serial that Bleasdale had already been working on. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Michael Wearing is a British Television producer, who has spent much of his career working on various drama productions for the BBC. The series, Boys from the Blackstuff, was transmitted on BBC Two in 1982. Boys from The Blackstuff is a British Television drama series of five episodes originally transmitted from October 10 to November Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) It established Bleasdale as one of Britain's most important television writers and social commentators. [1]

Bleasdale penned the script for the 1985 film No Surrender, a black comedy in which a group of elderly Protestant hardliners are booked into a party at a pub on the same night as a group of equally sectarian Catholic old-timers.

Since Boys from the Blackstuff, Bleasdale has gone on to pen several other award winning television dramas, including The Monocled Mutineer (1986, BBC One) and G.B.H. (1991, Channel 4). The Monocled Mutineer is a British television programme made by the BBC in 1986 and shown on BBC1, the first Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) GBH was a seven-part British Television Drama written by Alan Bleasdale, made by independent production company G Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began In 1999 Bleasdale adapted Oliver Twist for ITV. Oliver Twist (1838 is Charles Dickens' second Novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a serial The adaptation was well received but attracted some controversy as Bleasdale expanded the narrative adding a backstory.

In 1987, Charlottetown Festival director Walter Learning presented the Canadian premiere of the Bleasdale musical Are You Lonesome Tonight? at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, a national arts centre located on Prince Edward Island. The Charlottetown Festival is a seasonal Canadian musical Theatre festival which runs from late May to mid-October every year since 1965. Walter John Learning is a Canadian theatre director and actor and founder of Theatre New Brunswick The Confederation Centre of the Arts is a Canadian centre dedicated to the visual and Performing arts located in the city of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (ˌprɪns ˌɛdwɚd ˈaɪlɨnd ( PEI or P A storm of controversy erupted across the country with opponents decrying the presentation of the tough look at the life of Elvis Presley at the festival, which had been known for lightweight family fare such as Anne of Green Gables - The Musical. Anne Of Green Gables - The Musical is a musical based on the Novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The chairman of the Board of Directors resigned in protest over the Bleasdale play and objections to the rough language and subject matter were even brought up in the provincial legislature. However, the play was allowed to proceed and became a major critical and financial success for the festival that season.

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