MIX TAPE For the pre-Spotify generations, the mix tape is an iconic symbol of the analogue age. A cassette lovingly compiled by music fans, it was a token of affection given to lovers or friends. It was also a chance to share the music you loved and hopefully win over the recipient to an artist or album they had never really listened to before. A compilation of songs recorded from vinyl records, CDs or audio cassettes, it inspired the Yorkshire writer Jane Sanderson's 2020 novel 'Mix Tape'. That novel has been brought to the small screen by Screen Australia, Screen Ireland and the Australian streaming service, Binge. Directed by Lucy Gaffy with a screen adaptation by Dublin author Jo Spain, the four part series is a ' Normal People ' and ' One Day ' style tale of thwarted love. Set over two decades mostly in Sheffield and Sydney, Jim Sturgess plays Dan O'Toole, a rock music journalist who is married to Sara Soulie's Katja. Still living in Sheffiel...
UNFORGIVABLE When Jimmy McGovern finally gives up writing for film and television, he should do so with immense pride. No British television dramatist has matched McGovern when it comes to regularly creating quality dramas that confront the toughest of subjects. From male rage to racism, sexual repression to disability, miscarriages of justice to poverty, the Liverpudlian appears to have covered it all. Yet here is again shining a light on another difficult subject with compassion and consummate skill. 'Unforgivable' tackles paedophilia or, to be even more precise, the aftermath of it. Bobby Schofield is Joe, a man imprisoned for abusing his nephew, Austin Haynes' Tom. Ostracised from the rest of his family at the start of the BBC2 one-off drama, he runs a gauntlet of rage from the other inmates every day every time he steps out onto the prison landing. When Joe's mum dies in the family home after illness, his father, David Threlfall's Brian doesn't want him to...