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#BringBackBarley: Nathan Barley actor Nicholas Burns talks about playing the original Shoreditch media hipster

on Oct 7, 2015 | 0 comments

By Gareth Jones

Ahead of the DigitasLBi UK NewFront 2015 – and 10 years since Nathan Barley first aired on Channel 4 – The Drum caught up with actor Nicholas Burns, the man behind ‘self-facilitating media node’ Nathan Barley, to find out how his character became the archetype for a generation of new media hipsters.

When it first aired in 2005, Nathan Barley satirised the small but rapidly growing digital scene that was springing up in London’s East End. No one expected the show to have much of an impact, let alone last, but it has since mutated into something of a modern Read full story ›

Source: The Drum