RIP Bernard Hill. As Yosser Hughes his catchphrase summed up the impact of Thatcherism. Update

The actor Bernard Hill has died at 79.

Well known for a number of roles one of his earlier ones was that of Yosser Hughes in Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From the Blackstuff. Shown on the BBC in 1982 it focused on a group of Liverpudlian tarmac layers working around Middlesbrough

Yosser Hughes cry of Gissa a Job symbolised the early Thatcher years when unemployment hit 3 million.

Its part of British social history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Hill

Appropriately given the times James Graham’s adaptation of Boys from the Blackstuff has a brief run at the National Theatre on London’s South Bank from 22nd May to 8th June and then transfers to the Garrick in the West End for an eight week run from June 13th. An unplanned but fitting tribute to the late Bernard Hill