Set on a grim Mancunian housing estate, the Gallaghers are the scourge of their neighbourhood, well dad is, a man pathologically adverse to an honest day's graft, but addicted to shovelling anything down his neck that will enable him to advocate responsibility….for everything. Fiona, the oldest of the siblings and the only voice of reason within the Gallagher's four walls keep his six children alive and compus-mentus. Shameless is a work of genius, side splittingly funny but also rich in pathos and earthy wisdom; touching, brutal and weirdly life affirming.