Peter Flannery

Peter Flannery

Peter Flannery (born October 12 1951 in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear) is an English playwright and scriptwriter. He was educated at Bath Spa University and is best known for his work while a resident playwright at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Notable plays during his tenure include: "Savage Amusement" (1978), "Awful Knawful" (1978) and "Our Friends in the North" (1982). Other theatre work has included "Singer" (1989).

He is perhaps best known to a wider audience for his highly-acclaimed television adaptation of "Our Friends in the North", produced by the BBC and screened on BBC2 in 1996. The epic nine-part serial, charting the course of the lives of four friends from Newcastle from 1964 to 1995, was in 2000 voted by the British Film Institute as one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century. Flannery's other television work has included "Blind Justice", a 1988 series about the work of radical lawyers. At the 1997 British Academy Television Awards, Flannery was given the honorary Dennis Potter Award for outstanding achievement in television writing.

In January 2007 he scripted an adaptation of Alan Hunter's Inspector Gently novels, entitled "George Gently", for BBC One to be broadcast later in the year. "George Gently" is produced by Company Pictures, reuniting Flannery with "Our Friends in the North" producer Charles Pattinson, who co-runs Company and is an executive producer on the series alongside Flannery. [cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/01_january/18/gently.shtml|title=Martin Shaw returns to BBC One in George Gently|publisher=bbc.co.uk|date=2007-01-18|accessdate=2007-01-19] The drama was eventually shown on April 8 2007.

Flannery has also worked in film, although with less success than in other media. He provided the screenplays for films such as "Funny Bones" (1995) and "The One and Only" (2002).

Flannery's next project, which he has worked on for more than a decade, is "The Devil's Whore", about the English Civil War. [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/10/nround110.xml Channel 4 sexes up the Puritans - Telegraph ] ]

Notes

References

*Rebellato, Dan. "The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre" (ed. Colin Chambers). London. Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-4959-X.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281221/ Peter Flannery] at the Internet Movie Database.


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