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The director speaks for the first time about the horrific episode from his childhood that inspired his new TV drama The Virtues

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UK Quad poster promoting the TV series of This is England '86 - unusual to get a quad for TV but they did do some on street publicity for the series a few years back.

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This is England

Shane Meadows set out to tell the story of his childhood – and ended up making one of the most powerful TV dramas of our times. He talks to Chris Harvey

This Is England