The Runaways follows three young siblings in Yorkshire who journey across the country in an attempt to evade their uncle and social services after the death of their father.

Taking place 25 years after the original British smash hit, the same band of brothers navigate the post-industrial city of Sheffield and society’s crumbling healthcare, education, and employment sectors.

Tony Harrison’s poetic essay on the working class – in particular the British miners -, its struggles, its dreams and its icononography – at the very end of the 20th…