Loach said,

However, Ken Loach has said that despite the public outcry following the play, it had little practical effect in reducing homelessness, other than changing rules so that homeless fathers could stay with their wives & children in hostels.

Lyricist Chris Difford said that the title phrase was lifted from the 1965 TV play version of the novel, directed by Ken Loach, and its subsequent 1968 movie remake.

De Sica's film had a particularly profound effect on Loach.

In Kes the boy actor, discovering the dead bird at the end, believed Loach had killed the bird, which he had become fond of during the filming ( the crew used a dead bird found elsewhere ).

The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.

In 1964 he and Kenneth Adam initiated the new anthology series The Wednesday Play, a BBC equivalent of Armchair Theatre, which had great success and critical acclaim with plays written and directed by the likes of Dennis Potter, Jeremy Sandford and Ken Loach.

In July 2012, Almunia signed a one-year contract with Championship side Watford for the 2012 – 13 season, replacing Scott Loach who had moved to Ipswich Town.

Beryl accepts the challenge whose team will be trained by her Uncle Dermot ( Ken Jones )-( this wasn't the first time Ken Jones had played an Everton fan-he had done so a few years earlier in a Ken Loach Wednesday Play, 1968's The Golden Vision.

She was present at the 2005 Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, to promote two films she had acted in: Tickets ( 2005 ), a three-segment film directed by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach, and Crustacés et Coquillages, a comedy directed by the French duo of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.

He had a leading role in the BBC TV series Diary of a Young Man ( 1964 ), which was partly directed by Ken Loach, in addition to small parts in numerous popular TV series of the 1950s and 1960s.

Throughout the 2000s Loach continued to intersperse wider political dramas such as Bread and Roses ( which focused on the Los Angeles janitors strike ) and Route Irish ( set in the Iraq occupation ) with smaller examinations of personal relationships.

Loach lives with his wife, Lesley, in Bath, where he is a supporter of and shareholder in Bath City F. C.

Loach values having a strong, creative partnership with scriptwriters, most recently with Paul Laverty, who has written nine feature films for Loach ( including The Wind That Shakes The Barley and Sweet Sixteen ), and previously with Jim Allen ( Land & Freedom ) and Barry Hines ( Kes ).

In 2007, Loach was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area Queers ( SWANABAQ ) and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival " to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate.

In May 2009, organisers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival returned a £ 300 grant from the Israeli Embassy after speaking with Ken Loach.

Together with John Pilger and Jemima Khan, Ken Loach was among the six people in court willing to offer surety for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010.

* Interview with Loach about My Name is Joe

* Interview with Loach from 1998

* Interview with Ken Loach, interview about Route Irish in the Oxonian Review

Zebra Loach ( Botia striata ) with the fusiform shape typical of Botiinae

Gerrard also scored the Jim Loach directed Oranges and Sunshine starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving released in April 2011 which garnered her with another nomination at the 2011 IF Awards for Best Music Score.

The remaining originals, Deas and Challenger, continued to perform, along with guitarist Paul Dixon ( a member since December 2008 ), and new members Andy Pelos ( lead vocals ), Dean Loach ( keyboards ) and Rob Hewins ( drums ).

Director Ken Loach formed his long-standing association with Garnett on The Wednesday Play and made ten plays in all for the series.

Loach employed a realistic documentary style, using predominantly 16mm film on location, which contrasted with the vast amount of BBC drama of the time, which was commonly made in the electronic television studio.

Along with other Loach films, it is currently available to watch on Loach's YouTube channel.

It was rated with four stars out of five possible in the British film magazine Empire, where reviewer Michael Hayden praised the performance by Oksana Akinshina while comparing the film to both the social realism of Ken Loach, and " the darkest of fairy tales, complete with wicked aunts and guardian angels.

An historical event, the bloody fight between Republicans and Anarchists for controlling the Telefónica building in Barcelona, has been chosen by Loach as an emblem of this internal conflict ( See Barcelona May Days ).

" Land and Freedom " contains a quintessentially Loach sequence of a 12 minute political discussion amongst villagers trying to decide whether or not a village's smallholdings should be collectivized.

" While such controversy may now seem strange, Loach has admitted that " e were very anxious for our plays not to be considered dramas but as continuations of the news " which preceded The Wednesday Play < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s slot.

Loach minnow can be found at turbulent, rocky riffles of mainstream rivers.

A member of the Labour Party from the early 1960s, Loach left in the mid-1990s.

In June 2009, Loach, Paul Laverty ( writer ) and Rebecca O ' Brien ( producer ) pulled their film Looking For Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival, where the Israeli Embassy is a sponsor, after the festival declined the withdraw their sponsorship.

Loach, Laverty and O ' Brien subsequently wrote that: " We feel duty bound to take advice from those living at the sharp end inside the occupied territories.

Loach has also expressed strong support for Chechen independence from Russia.

Likewise, the film Land and Freedom, directed by Ken Loach, tells of a group of POUM soldiers fighting in the war from the perspective of a British member of the British Communist Party.

The name ' Big Flame ' came from a television play, The Big Flame ( 1969 ), written by Jim Allen and directed by Ken Loach for the BBC's Wednesday Play season.

Members also recorded as: Matthew Hein ( solo ), Wallpaper ( David French ), Awesome ( Luke Hollywood with guest appearances from other NBT alumni ), Gashdig, Popewyrm, Incinerators & Diamond Tuck ( Jasin Fell ), Denk ( solo ), The Loach Clips ( Lars ), and Prince Mattie Gaunt ( solo ).

Dr. Jeff Loach, now minister of St Paul's in Nobleton, Ontario, ministered from 1997 until 2004.

After a robust and rigorous campaign with support from thousands including Kevin Spacey, Ken Loach, Michael Bogdanov and Richard Wilson, the Morley Drama Department was saved.

" Loach also joined " 54 international figures in the literary and cultural fields " in signing a letter that stated, in part, " celebrating ' Israel at 60 ' is tantamount to dancing on Palestinian graves to the haunting tune of lingering dispossession and multi-faceted injustice ".

In an open letter to Ms Shalom Ezer, Ken Loach wrote " From the beginning, Israel and its supporters have attacked their critics as anti-semites or racists.