Brass (TV series) Thorn Street in Summerseat, Bury. Greater Manchester. The series is available on DVD in the United Kingdom. Brass (TV series) Brass was a British television comedy-drama, made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. "Brass" is northern English slang for "money" as well as for "effrontery". The series was set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, "Brass" satirized working-class period dramas of the 1970s, most significantly "When the Boat Comes In". Unusually for ITV comedies of the time, "Brass" eschewed a laugh track and utilized a dry sense of humour based in part
The Price of Coal most British people supported the monarchy, as portrayed in the film. "The Guardian"s obituary by Tony Garnett read, "In "The Price of Coal" he revealed not only his angry compassion for the daily dangers of mining, but an acknowledgment of the feudal backwardness in his community". The Price of Coal The Price of Coal is a two-part television drama written by Barry Hines and directed by Ken Loach first broadcast as part of the "Play for Today" series in 1977. Set at the fictional Milton Colliery, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, the episodes contrast "efforts made to cosmetically improve the