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Right, let's move on to your next big cultural influence. it's from 1982 — a landmark television drama series. yeah. the boys from the blackstuff by alan bleasdale. i started watching it in belfast — i was doing my very second job, a brilliant play by graham reid, part of a trilogy of plays called the billy plays — and i was watching it there, and few things struck me. it was very gritty and authentic — i felt i absolutely believed its working class reality. but at the same time, it had a surreal and poetic quality as well. it had a heightened quality. and in bernard hill's performance...

Features of a sort of working class life or anybody�*s life, basically, where, you know, the — you're not living with a hollywood soundtrack, you're not in a big screen adventure, you're in a much more prosaic existence but, from the inside, the soul is being crushed. it was the kind of thing that made television—watching an event. your last big cultural moment that you've brought in is the olympics opening ceremony, 2012. you had a really key role that night. central, you know, middle of the stadium, you appeared, dressed as isambard kingdom brunel... yes. ..reciting shakespeare... yes....