An English Western: The BBC’s Gangsters turns 50
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This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of a groundbreaking TV series on immigration set in Birmingham. John Quin revisits and ponders its relevance to the current moment
Just like before – as Karen Carpenter once sang - it’s ‘Yesterday Once More’. The sha-la-la-la days are over and the woah, woah-ohs you hear on TV these days are the screams of ICE victims. Fascism is on the rise in France and Germany. Here the British tabloids express a naked hatred of immigrants while masked thugs block the
Just like before – as Karen Carpenter once sang - it’s ‘Yesterday Once More’. The sha-la-la-la days are over and the woah, woah-ohs you hear on TV these days are the screams of ICE victims. Fascism is on the rise in France and Germany. Here the British tabloids express a naked hatred of immigrants while masked thugs block the
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