MACKENZIE CROOK’S critically lauded BBC2 comedy Small Prophets has been credited with the creation of an entirely new subgenre; “magical social realism.” This combines aspects of folkloric sorcery with Mike Leigh’s forensically bleak (but often comedic) investigation of blue-collar life in these Isles.

Small Prophets finds Mackenzie Crook conjuring tiny prophetic beings from working-class malaise, writes STEPHEN ARNELL

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