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Bleasdale

British  
/ ˈbliːzdeɪl /

noun

  1. Alan. born 1946, British playwright, best known for his television series The Boys From the Blackstuff (1983) and GBH (1991)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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His writing heroes include Jimmy McGovern, who he has worked with previously, and Alan Bleasdale.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

Around the same time, The Times also praised Mr. Hill for playing a bouncer at a seedy nightclub “with splendid blankness” in “No Surrender,” a 1986 movie whose screenplay was also written by Mr. Bleasdale.

From New York Times • May 5, 2024

Alan Bleasdale, who wrote “Boys From the Blackstuff,” told the BBC that Hill’s death was “a great loss and also a great surprise.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2024

Writer Alan Bleasdale has given his first TV interview for 20 years as a stage version of his landmark TV drama The Boys From The Blackstuff is due to open.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2023

The method applied by the farmers in Portugal, as described to me by Dr. Bleasdale, is perhaps the most perfect one.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 by Various

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