Alan Plater's unashamed nostalgia-fest "Blonde Bombshells of 1943" is a variation on a theme. Or, rather, themes. Playing brass, woodwind, bass, piano and drums, seven girls and a guy in drag put ...

Plater produced numerous works for the stage and screen, including seminal police drama Z Cars and an adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles. His work was also featured on Armchair Theatre and The ...

Z CARS writer Alan Plater left £651,090 in his will. The playwright and TV scriptwriter died of cancer last June at 75. He also worked on the Beiderbecke Affair and The Barchester Chronicles and was ...

Writer of rare quality and passionIn 1961, when he was 26, and after he had experienced the thrill of being paid for his writing – by the Yorkshire Post for occasional book reviews and one of 40 ...

ONE of Britain’s best-loved writers, Jarrow-born Alan Plater, has died of cancer at the age of 75. He made his name as one of the main scriptwriters on Z-Cars, the TV police drama which ran through ...

Legendary playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater has died, aged 75. The former architect, who produced 200 dramas for stage, screen and radio lost his battle against cancer after being admitted to a ...

Alan Plater's final drama for television, Joe Maddison's War, is due to be screened on ITV this autumn. Fittingly, it gave the Jarrow-born Plater the opportunity to revisit his background in the north ...

The chances are you may not have heard of Alan Plater or theatrical agent Peggy Ramsay, but you will have heard of Maureen Lipman. To tie the three up Maureen is coming to Richmond Theatre in the play ...

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