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   With Loach as director, Allen wrote the screenplays for three feature-length films: Hidden Agenda (1990), which portrays the murder of an American civil rights activist in Belfast, Raining Stones (1993), a kitchen-sink tragicomedy set in Middleton, near Manchester, and, Allen's final dramatic work, Land and Freedom (1995), telling the story of ...

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   In this programme, Eccleston returns to Manchester to discover more about Jim Allen, the playwright behind The Spongers – a man who ‘wrote beautifully about real people's lives’.

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   Jan 8, 2015 · Jim Allen: A Man of His Words. 4 Extra Debut. Christopher Eccleston looks at the life of the Socialist playwright Jim Allen. With Ken Loach and Jimmy McGovern. From 2015. In 1978, actor ...

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   Perdition is a 1987 stage play by Jim Allen. Its premiere at London's Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, in a production directed by Ken Loach , was abandoned because of protests, and criticism by two historians, over its controversial and tendentious claims.

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   Jun 14, 2022 · Christopher returns to Manchester to discover more about Jim Allen, the playwright behind The Spongers - a man who "wrote beautifully about real people's lives". His many works include Days...

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   Christopher Eccleston looks at the life and works of the Socialist playwright Jim Allen.

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   When was Allen's first play based on a true story?

   • Allen's first play, The Hard Word (1966), directed by Ridley Scott, was broadcast as part of the Thirty-Minute Theatre series on BBC 2. It was followed by The Lump (1967), the first fictional work directed by Jack Gold, who had begun his career on documentaries, and broadcast as part of The Wednesday Play drama anthology series.

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   Who was James Allen?

   • James Allen (7 October 1926 – 24 June 1999) was an English socialist playwright, best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach . Allen was born in the Miles Platting area of Manchester, Lancashire, on 7 October 1926, the second child of Kitty and Jack Allen, Roman Catholics of Irish descent.

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   What was Allen's first play directed by Loach?

   • The first of Allen's plays to be directed by Loach was The Big Flame (1969), again for The Wednesday Play series. The play depicts a strike among the dockers of Liverpool, led by a Trotskyite docker against the wishes of the established union; the strike is violently broken by the army and police.

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   When was Allen introduced to Ken Loach?

   • Allen was introduced to Ken Loach in 1967 by Loach's regular collaborator at the time, producer Tony Garnett, who had produced The Lump. The first of Allen's plays to be directed by Loach was The Big Flame (1969), again for The Wednesday Play series.

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8. www.screenonline.org.uk › people › idBFI Screenonline: Allen, Jim (1926-99) Biography

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   After an entertaining but slight Play for Today about a working-class philanderer, 'Willie's Last Stand' (tx. 23/2/1982), Allen's final work for television was the six-part The Gathering Seed (BBC, 1983), starring a young David Threlfall.