Mary Carr, Forty Elephants and A Thousand Blows

A Thousand Blows is a "based on a true story" series that captures its audience by highlighting the depth of each life lived.
Major finale spoilers as we dig into the end of A Thousand Blows to see how it sets things up for the already-filmed second series.
A combination of twisting streets, bad sanitation and the city’s poorest residents made for a potent stew – and was the home of the city’s spectacularly violent boxing scene.It’s also this world that ...
A Thousand Blows adds some narrative wrinkles to the story, but the Victorian-set boxing drama pulls direct inspiration from ...