From There to Here: Review
Ah 1996. Happy days. England were hosting Euro 96. Football was coming home. The sun shone in a glorious summer. Gazza, Shearer, Sheringham et al looked, for a while, like world beaters. I still had hair. What, frankly, wasn’t to like?
Well, a ruddy great IRA bomb going off in Central Manchester, that’s what. It still seems miraculous that nobody was killed by the largest bomb detonated in this country during peacetime, although 212 people were injured.
This excellent new three-part BBC drama takes the bomb as its starting point, and examines how it impacts upon the lives of one family.
Philip Glenister, the craggy-faced professional grump (could someone please give him a cheerful role?) plays an ordinary bloke trying to reconcile his conservative, uptight father, played by droopy-moustachioed professional grump Bernard Hill, with his wayward, irresponsible brother (Steven Mackintosh).
When the three are caught up in the bomb, they seem to get away relatively unscathed. But it turns out that the experience has had an impact on each of them.
The football matches play a role (and how good it is to see footage of that memorable game against Holland) and there is sterling support from Saskia Reeves and Liz White.
I don’t want to give away anything more, so instead, here’s a sport of trivia for you. Until Avatar came out in 2009, Bernard Hill had starred in the two most successful films of all time: Titanic, and LOTR: The Return of the King. Yep, I’m a scream at dinner parties.
Well, a ruddy great IRA bomb going off in Central Manchester, that’s what. It still seems miraculous that nobody was killed by the largest bomb detonated in this country during peacetime, although 212 people were injured.
This excellent new three-part BBC drama takes the bomb as its starting point, and examines how it impacts upon the lives of one family.
Philip Glenister, the craggy-faced professional grump (could someone please give him a cheerful role?) plays an ordinary bloke trying to reconcile his conservative, uptight father, played by droopy-moustachioed professional grump Bernard Hill, with his wayward, irresponsible brother (Steven Mackintosh).
When the three are caught up in the bomb, they seem to get away relatively unscathed. But it turns out that the experience has had an impact on each of them.
The football matches play a role (and how good it is to see footage of that memorable game against Holland) and there is sterling support from Saskia Reeves and Liz White.
I don’t want to give away anything more, so instead, here’s a sport of trivia for you. Until Avatar came out in 2009, Bernard Hill had starred in the two most successful films of all time: Titanic, and LOTR: The Return of the King. Yep, I’m a scream at dinner parties.
