Alan Plater Movies

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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