‘The world is still as bent and corrupt’: Our Friends in the North returns to the stage

Two Thatcher-years episodes of Peter Flannery’s award-winning TV series to be adapted for Newcastle stage It is regarded as one of the greatest British television series ever made, exploring the decline of the Labour party, sleaze, social decay, dodgy developers, injustice and how idealism can so easily turn to disillusionment and cynicism. Our Friends in the North will return this year in a new guise and will be just as relevant, its writer believes, as it was 30 years ago. Continue reading...

By Mark Brown North of England correspondent