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If you skipped The Gallows Pole because you saw the listing and thought: “Nah, I’m not in the mood for a grim-sounding 18th-century costume drama” (my instinct was similar) then I urge you to reconsider. Because it is riotously entertaining and upends most of what you expect from a period drama, tosses it in the air and refashions it as something entirely distinctive.

A mechanic and a financial team leader are among the first-time actors in Shane Meadows' new series.

The Gallows Pole might be set in the 1760s, but Shane Meadows' new BBC2 drama says a lot about these troubled times

Including White House Plumbers, Kevin Moran: Codebreaker, Bloom and more

Happy Valley’s success cemented a film and TV boom in the West Yorkshire town – and now the cameras can’t stay away

This Is England star Michael Socha plays the lead role of David Hartley, who returns to his Yorkshire home after seven years in BBC2s new drama The Gallows Pole.

The remarkable true story of the Cragg Vale coiners, a group of counterfeiters operating in the Colne Valley in the 18th century, was brought to wider public attention by Yorkshire writer Ben Myers’ award-winning 2017 novel The Gallows Pole and the book has now inspired a new three-part BBC series launching next week.

TO the moorland families of 18th Century West Yorkshire, England is a country divided between rich and poor.

Whether it’s a live-action revamp of a watery Disney classic or Shane Meadows’s new drama about the Cragg Vale coiners, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

Cult director Shane Meadows takes the helm to tell a uniquely Yorkshire story