Episode One of Shane Meadows' The Gallows Pole could hardly have set up things better. Dark, surreal, vulgar and at times, poignant, it was an overdue raised index and middle finger to hackneyed ...
The Gallows Pole is a fictionalised account of the Cragg Vale Coiners, a group of coin forgers who nearly capsized the British economy. It's a tale of desperate weavers supplementing their ...