Christopher Eccleston has teased a possible return for Our Friends in the North.
The actor starred alongside Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan and Mark Strong in the BBC Two series in 1996.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Eccleston said that it is one of his "great hopes" to film more episodes of the drama.
He explained: "I saw all the characters including Mary, Nicki, Tosker, Geordie as portraits of our writer, Peter Flannery.
"That's what great writers do, like Jimmy McGovern and Peter Flannery - they take aspects of their own personality and they characterise them, debates that they have in their head and their heart spill onto the paper.
"I'm very hopeful. I know that Peter Flannery has some plans for to revisit Our Friends in the North either by going earlier to the story of Peter Bourne's character, or Felix, or a little later.
"It's one of my great...
The actor starred alongside Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan and Mark Strong in the BBC Two series in 1996.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Eccleston said that it is one of his "great hopes" to film more episodes of the drama.
He explained: "I saw all the characters including Mary, Nicki, Tosker, Geordie as portraits of our writer, Peter Flannery.
"That's what great writers do, like Jimmy McGovern and Peter Flannery - they take aspects of their own personality and they characterise them, debates that they have in their head and their heart spill onto the paper.
"I'm very hopeful. I know that Peter Flannery has some plans for to revisit Our Friends in the North either by going earlier to the story of Peter Bourne's character, or Felix, or a little later.
"It's one of my great...
- 4/20/2015
- Digital Spy
The history of gay culture in Britain is explored in the life story of one drag artist in this affecting documentary
This sweet, affecting documentary profiles the eponymous actor/drag queen/activist Bette Bourne (Peter Bourne), now a grand dame in his 70s with a lavender rinse in his hair, a fetching array of oversized brooches and a great store of anecdotes.
Prompted by co-director Mark Ravenhill, who pootles about London with him, checking out old haunts and meeting ageing friends, Bourne narrates the story of his life. It's practically a microcosm of 20th-century gay culture, covering the closet culture of the 50s, the gay liberation movement, Bourne's success with his cabaret company the Bloolips, and the arrival of Aids.
As a documentary, it is hardly radical or ground-breaking (although the archive material is ace), but it's an engaging oral history, about a lovely person who gives good quip. The...
This sweet, affecting documentary profiles the eponymous actor/drag queen/activist Bette Bourne (Peter Bourne), now a grand dame in his 70s with a lavender rinse in his hair, a fetching array of oversized brooches and a great store of anecdotes.
Prompted by co-director Mark Ravenhill, who pootles about London with him, checking out old haunts and meeting ageing friends, Bourne narrates the story of his life. It's practically a microcosm of 20th-century gay culture, covering the closet culture of the 50s, the gay liberation movement, Bourne's success with his cabaret company the Bloolips, and the arrival of Aids.
As a documentary, it is hardly radical or ground-breaking (although the archive material is ace), but it's an engaging oral history, about a lovely person who gives good quip. The...
- 2/13/2014
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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