Our Friends in the North is a British television drama. A serial
produced by the BBC and originally screened in nine episodes on BBC2
in early 1996, Our Friends tells the story of four friends from the
city of Newcastle in North East England over 31 years from 1964 to
1995. The storyline includes real political and social events both
specific to the north-east and from Britain as a whole during the era
portrayed. The show is commonly regarded as having been one of the
most successful BBC television dramas of the 1990s. It was also a
controversial production in some respects, as the issues and
occurrences upon which its fiction were based involved real
politicians and political events. It took several years before the
production–adapted from a play originally performed by the Royal
Shakespeare Company–finally made it to the screen, due in part to the
BBC's fear that it might become involved in legal action.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
366:
The Alamanni crossed the frozen Rhine in large numbers to invade the
Roman Empire.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamanni)
533:
Mercurius became Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon
elevation to the papacy.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_II)
1492:
Reconquista: Los Reyes Católicos expelled Boabdil of Granada
(pictured), the last of the Moorish rulers, from the Iberian
Peninsula.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista)
1946:
Unable to resume his reign after World War II, King Zog of Albania
abdicated but retained his claim to the throne.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zog_of_Albania)
1949:
Luis Muñoz MarÃn became the first democratically elected Governor of
Puerto Rico.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Mu%C3%B1oz_Mar%C3%ADn)
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Wikiquote of the day:
"How often people speak of art and science as though they were two
entirely different things, with no interconnection...That is all
wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and
knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true
scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes
leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does
not, his science suffers." -- Isaac Asimov
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov)