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Cookson's
storytelling is brought to the screen with a mixture of
blood, passion and tragedy. "The Fifteen Streets" is a powerful drama set against the harsh and turbulent background of poverty and class distinction in Tyneside at the beginning of the 20th Century. A young docker, John O'Brien, (Owen Teale) falls deeply in love with Mary Llewellyn, (Clare Holman) a daughter of a local shipbuilder. Their love unites them but the Fifteen Streets, which seperate poverty from wealth, threaten to stand in their way. Dominic O'Brien, (Sean Bean) a hardworking, hard drinking and womanising docker, whose lust for a neighbours daughter leads to tragedy for both families
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