The Golden Age of Yorkshire Television: Alan Plater
Listen online: Yorkshire playwright Alan Plater recalls the glory days of ITV in the region. An exclusive Yorkshire Post recording.
Alan Plater delivered the 2007 Baverstock Lecture, presented at the Ilkley Literature Festival, which commemorates the television producer Donald Baverstock, a major force in early factual programme making, enabler of the BBC's That Was The Week That Was, and the first programme controller of Yorkshire Television.
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Alan Plater, born in Newcastle but brought up in Hull, was a leading light in television drama from the early 1960s, when he began writing for the BBC's ground-breaking police series, Z-Cars.
He worked for many years with Yorkshire TV, where his credits included the sitcom Oh No! It's Selwyn Froggitt for Bill Maynard, an adaptation of JB Priestley's The Good Companions, and the celebrated Beiderbecke trilogy with James Bolam and Barbara Flynn.
In this recording, from the stage of the Ilkley Playhouse, he recalls these series and many others.
He was awarded the CBE in 2005.
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