Michael Socha plays David Hartley in Shane Meadows’ upcoming period drama about the Cragg Vale Coiners. Below: Sophie McShera as Grace
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ShaneMeadows is back with a three-part BBC adaptation of Benjamin Myers’ award-winning novel. Set at the onset of the Industrial Revolution, The Gallows Pole tells the true(ish) tale of David Hartley (Michael Socha), Grace (Sophie McShera) and the Cragg Vale Coiners, a community of dirt-poor weavers who undertook the biggest fraud in British history, almost capsizing the economy.