Alan Plater Movies

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...

Spoof story, set in the 1950s, about espionage in a humberside village.

A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an...

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

The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies...

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....

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.

'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...

A play about a young man's experiences in his first job and in becoming a member of the Union.

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...