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• The Boat That Rocked | Blu Ray | (08/08/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's 1966 - pop music's finest era - and a bunch of ramshackle DJs play rock & pop 24 hours a day broadcasting from Radio Rock, an infamous pirate ship in North Sea. On board arrives 18 year old Carl, who is instantly plunged into a series of hilarious and life-changing adventures and misadventures. His mother thought the boat would straighten him out a spectacular mistake! From Richard Curtis (Blackadder, Four weddings, Love Actually) THE BOAT THAT ROCKED is a brilliant comedy featuring some of the best pop music ever and an all-star cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Rhys Ifans, Tom Sturridge & Kenneth Branagh Fabulous Features 14 Chunky and Funny Deleted Scenes 46 minutes of new, unseen material 6 Rocking Featurettes in HD Feature Commentary, with Richard Curtis, Producer Hilary Bevan Jones, and actors Nick Frost and Chris O'Dowd

• Alan Bleasdale Presents - Blood on the Dole - Ch4 | DVD | (28/05/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the play by Jim Morris. Blood on the Dole follows the lives of four teenagers, two boys and two girls, struggling to cope after being thrust into the real world for the first time after leaving school. Living in deprived Merseyside, the four youths' bright-eyed optimism for their futures and new-found freedom is soon crushed by the realities of unemployment, poverty, and the brutal reality of living and trying to find work in a city in decline. They all soon find themselves in the hopeless situation of facing complete dependence on state handouts, the dole . The four teenagers instead find themselves turning to each other to find the strength to survive. An impressively fresh social commentary and portrayal of teenage love set within a disturbingly authentic account of disenfranchised youth. With austerity still very much a part of our political climate, and recent films such as I, Daniel Blake continuing to challenge such government policy, Blood on the Dole is still a hugely relevant watch today. Produced by BAFTA-winner Alan Bleasdale as a part of the Alan Bleasdale Presents series, a Channel 4 anthology showcasing and given a platform to new, up-and-coming talent young writers. After his successes in landmark dramas including Boys from the Black Stuff, The Monocled Mutineer and GBH, in 1994 Channel 4 gave Alan Bleasdale the opportunity to find and mentor new TV writers. Four big-budget, standalone films were made as a result, with top casts and experimental storylines.