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An ex-miner turned poet is appointed writer-in-residence at Eastwood branch library. Ellen, senior librarian, soon realizes the feckless but charming Geordie is no poet. Despite this she finds him highly entertaining, much to the disgust of Nutley, an earnest young man who covets the writer-in-residence role. These three find themselves an unlikely but united strike group when the Libraries sub-committee proposes demolishing the library.

A memoir of a well-known and popular writer of numerous plays, screenplays and novels. Illustrated with cartoons, it tells how Alan Plater, to his surprise, got a life and career that brought him a CBE, two CDs, three BAFTAs, four honorary degrees and fourteen grandchildren, with music being the vital ingredient throughout.

Anyone familiar with the cartoon characters of Bill Tidy's 'Fosdyke Saga' from the Daily Mirror will know these loveable characters. The time is 1902 and the Fosdyke tripe business is failing, so they decide to move to greener pastures in Manchester - the land of meat pies and perhaps fortune? We follow their progress through to the First World War.|6 women, 10 men

A new comic drama, starring Maureen Lipman, about the life of the famous play agent, Peggy Ramsay, who helped transform post-war British dramaAlan Plater's play for the Hampstead Theatre in London is a witty and poignant portrait of Margaret 'Peggy' Ramsay, the larger-than-life play agent who nurtured several generations of British playwrights (John Arden, Alan Ayckbourn, Robert Bolt, Edward Bond, David Hare, Caryl Churchill, David Hare, Chris...

This gritty musical about the coal industry in northeast England is regularly staged by all kinds of theatre companies, from professional to school to amateur. The play, adapted from stories by Sid Chaplin, and with the songs of Alex Glasgow, is frequently revived. It has been described as a hymn of unqualified praise to the miners who created a revolutionary weapon without having a revolutionary intent. Alan Plater has written numerous radio,...