Alan Plater Movies

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

'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...

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

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...

Casual labour appeals to Wilfred, and the street market is a friendly home until he meets the beautiful Christabel. Her haughty dismissal drives him...

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

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

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...

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