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Early life. McGovern was born in Liverpool in September 1949, the son of working-class parents Jane (née Warner) and William McGovern. [1] He was the fifth of nine children. He suffered from a stammer, for which he received no therapy and which affects him still. [2]
Mini Bio. Jimmy McGovern was born in September 1949 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for The Street (2006), Cracker (1993) and Moving On (2009). Family. Parents. William McGovern. Jane Warner. Trivia. Left school at sixteen but later went back into higher education and became a teacher in his late twenties.
18 de jun. de 2021 · Jimmy McGovern’s hard-hitting drama is a brutally honest portrayal of a failed public service and gets everything right about prison life – minus the tedium. Eric Allison. Fri 18 Jun 2021...
8 de jul. de 2021 · When writer Jimmy McGovern was growing up in his beloved Liverpool, the English city where he and the remaining seven of his siblings still live, with nephews and nieces galore, it was a source of pride to his family and their neighbours that only one of the residents on their street had gone to prison.
4 de ago. de 2012 · The scriptwriter, 62, on being a late talker, a fan of Kenny Dalglish and a political dramatist. Sat 4 Aug 2012 19.05 EDT. I do not write to champion a group of people. I come to tell their story...
Born to a large, Catholic, working-class Liverpool family in 1949 (the fifth of nine children), McGovern knew extreme poverty as a child. The young Jimmy had profound difficulties with spoken communication, and until around 8 or 9 years old he spoke in essentially unintelligible sounds, translated for the rest of the family by his older brother.
5 de jun. de 2021 · There is drug-taking, blackmail, abuse and self-harm. Fights break out over food and phone calls. One character makes the point that their prison has nearly as many staff members as inmates....