It felt strange watching it because I was about the same age as the character "James" (William Eadie), who’s living in Glasgow during the 1970s. I recall the nine-week dustmen strike; there were piles of garbage everywhere. We lived in a small, one-bedroom apartment overrun with mice, similar to those shown in the tenement buildings, and that canal – it was an abandoned mess, full of disease and danger. There used to…