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

by Mark Brown North Of England Correspondent

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 jus…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:36am on February 26, 2026