Movies: Roger McGough

  • 2021
    Almost Liverpool 8

    Almost Liverpool 8 (2021)

    Almost Liverpool 8

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    In the early 1970s, acclaimed photojournalist Don McCullin photographed the area of Toxteth in Liverpool, capturing the community during an era of transition and decline. Focussing on one photograph from his collection, a group of filmmakers paint a...

    Almost Liverpool 8
  • 1998
    Twockers

    Twockers (1998)

    Twockers

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    Bonfires, thieving and love in Halifax. An award-winning hybrid of documentary and drama that lets teenagers act out their lives in a West Yorkshire council estate. Trevor is a typical seventeen year old dosser living on a housing estate in the North...

    Twockers
  • 1971
    Plod

    Plod (1971)

    Plod

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    Based on Roger McGough's PC Plod poems, a series of quick comic sketches performed by The Scaffold....

    Plod
  • 2017
    Sex, Chips & Poetry: 50 Years of the Mersey Sound

    Sex, Chips & Poetry: 50 Years of the Mersey Sound (2017)

    Sex, Chips & Poetry: 50 Years of the Mersey Sound

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    Fifty years ago, Penguin published its 1967 hit pop poetry book The Mersey Sound, introducing Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri to the world, thereby securing Liverpool as the cultural centre of the UK and bringing poetry to pop audiences....

    Sex, Chips & Poetry: 50 Years of the Mersey Sound
  • 1976
    The Lifeswappers

    The Lifeswappers (1976)

    The Lifeswappers

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    Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bitchy wife – he decides to answer a "life-swapping" ad in the local paper. But once the swapping starts...

    The Lifeswappers
  • 2013
    Rock 'n' Roll Britannia

    Rock 'n' Roll Britannia (2013)

    Rock 'n' Roll Britannia

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    Documentary about the pre-Beatles rock era, when a series of British acts created a unique copy of American rock 'n' roll...

    Rock 'n' Roll Britannia