THIS IS ENGLAND

Channel 4 · Drama · 03 Sep 2010 · by: Channel 4

 As an introduction to his new drama series This is England '86 , starting tomorrow night, Channel 4 presents Shane Meadows' BAFTA-winning film, set in 1983, where 13-year-old Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) has to endure bullying at school both for his dress sense and, more spitefully, the loss of his father in the Falklands War. Then he chances upon a gang of skinheads, led by the affable Woody (Joe Gilgun), who, although they all appear menacing, accept him into the group, and offer him an identity. But then Combo (Stephen Graham) reappears on the scene after a spell inside, and introduces the group to his poisonous National Front politics, leaving Shaun with divided loyalties and hard decisions to make.