Bleasdale

Certainly the days of muscular, explicitly political Plays for Today directed by talents such as Bleasdale, Ken Loach and Mike Leigh are long gone.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

If you're old enough to remember the 80s, you're probably old enough to remember the great Alan Bleasdale drama, Boys From the Black Stuff.

Vajazzled! Carole Cadwalladr examines how chavs have replaced working class people on Britain's TV 2011

As long as large elements of the Labour movement are trapped in the worldview of an Alan Bleasdale screenplay, caricaturing Tories as uncaring monsters, they will stay on the sidelines of politics.

Stop accusing Tories of being a cross between Fagin and Goebbels Tim Montgomerie 2010

The couple also met with some Olympic hopefuls who had been invited, including pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale.

Prince William <![CDATA[&]]> Kate Middleton Step Out In Blackburn (PHOTOS) 2011

VII Photojournalists Marcus Bleasdale, Jessica Dimmock, Ron Haviv, Antonin Kratochvil, Franco Pagetti, Stephanie Sinclair, and John Stanmeyer documented malnutrition's varied faces and contexts: malnourished children in lush and bountiful Congo; the cyclical nature of malnutrition in Bangladesh; the impact of the annual "lean season" in the Sahel, among other settings.

Tido von Schoen-Angerer: It's Time to End the Double-Standard of Food Aid Tido von Schoen-Angerer 2010

It comes spiced with a sharply robust humour honed while playing for Huyton boys, coached by his old friend, the dramatist Alan Bleasdale.

Peter Reid lends a hand as Pilgrims continue to regress 2011

As ever with Bleasdale, there are pointed moments, too: Italian PoWs crowded below decks are "ballast for the journey".

Tonight's TV highlights: The Sinking Of The Laconia | Martin Clunes: Man To Manta | Not Going Out | High – How Drugs Work | The Brain: A Secret History | The Cleveland Show 2011

Before long another attractive St. Andrews student was added to the royal mix—Olivia Bleasdale, daughter of a Royal Artillery officer—as well as a stunning blonde with a name that was tongue-twisting even by royal standards: Lady Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe.

William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

The video was produced with the photographer Marcus Bleasdale and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Human Rights Watch: Human Rights Watch Nominated for Three Webby Awards Human Rights Watch 2011

Liverpool has produced more than its fair share of playwright heroes, among them Willy Russell and Alan Bleasdale.

This week's new theatre 2011