TV Review: The Street (2/6), BBC One, Thursday 15 November, 9pm

Published: November 16, 2007, 10:32 am

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Here's a picture of a man with a lot on his mind. Eddie is a cabbie. You met him last year. He's a regular sort of bloke, a bit hen-pecked, nice family, struggles to pay the bills sometimes. Even if you didn't meet him last year, you should recognise him. He's a lot like you, and every other bloke you know. He might be broke but he's surrounded by riches and he doesn't know it. Sometimes he hankers after what might have been. And then one day, what might have been turns up and offers itself on a plate and Eddie finds himself slipping deeper and deeper into what ifs and maybes while all the time, just out of sight and certainly out of mind, Eddie's real world is undergoing a crisis of its own. In the second part of Jimmy McGovern's sublime drama of everyday people and how their lives can unravel like an old jumper if you pick at a single thread, Eddie's day begins as usual with a roadside fare... The fare turns out to be Bob Hewitt, an old schoolfriend of Eddie's who

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