SHANE MEADOWS

MEADOWS HAS WON PLAUDITS FOR HIS OWN BRAND OF GRITTY, GROUNDED DRAMAS and his ability to coax authentic, emotionally charged performances from his cast. He is best known for 2006 feature This is England and its television spin-offs, This is England 86, 88 and 90, all of which he also wrote. He was on double duty again on 2019 miniseries The Virtues, and is also writer and director on his upcoming BBC series The Gallows Pole. Meadows’ first period drama, it is based on the novel of the same name by Benjamin Myers and fictionalises the true story of the rise and fall of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners. As the industrial revolution looms in 18th century Yorkshire, the plot follows the enigmatic Hartley (played by Michael Socha) as he assembles a gang of weavers and landworkers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.