Alan Plater Movies

An appreciation and retrospective look at the songs and humour of Leeds folk singer/songwriter Jake Thackray, including performances of some of his...

What was it like to go to school 100 years ago?

Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for...

On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her...

South Africa in the 60s. The campaign of sabotage is halted and the arrests continue. The Special Branch obviously have inside Information.

A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell....

'I'm unusual. I really want to be an architect. Always have done. Always wanted to build fine buildings and fine cities where people can work and eat...

Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film producer, and attendance at the funeral of a...

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

Alan Plater looks at the various adaptations of J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions', in the company of the author himself.