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Pulling Moves

BBC THREE

Pearse Elliott, Writer

Pearse Elliott has a gift for picking up the way the people of West Belfast speak - and for transferring that style and humour onto the written page.

He has written as authentic a series as anything to have come from the pen of Roddy Doyle or Jim Sheridan.

In his own words he talks about the genesis of the project, life in West Belfast before and after the ceasefire and his inspiration and motivation.

Why did you write Pulling Moves?

"I wrote Pulling Moves the way I write anything, I thought there was fecund territory in characters and a world that had largely been ignored and was relatively unknown - and I thought that considering the current zeitgeist that there was a superb opportunity to elucidate this.

"I was sick to the death of inept dramas made about the North that certainly weren't representative of my community and were made by people that hadn't one clue who this community and people are.

So I