- Reference No:
- U DPR/7/2
- Dates:
- 1972-1984
- Description:
- Includes typed papers by Alan Plater entitled 'Piece for Charities Booklet: Hull Arts Centre', 'Youth - Volume Five', 'The Facts of the Case: A Short Story for Radio', 'Synopses of Proposed Articles', 'Two Coats Grease Paint', 'A Talk of Students', 'Meet the Architect in His Life', 'A Fairy Story', 'Bernie's Tune', 'Something in Our Madness', 'Ted's Whiff of Grease-Paint', 'Television on the Comparative Method', 'The Halfway People: Thoughts on Original Ten-Part Television Series' (1984), 'London Screenwriters Workshop: Thoughts on Edinburgh', 'Hull and Humberside - Quite Good Really', 'Anything for a Laugh?', 'My Delight', 'When the Boats Come Home to Roost', 'A message from Selwyn Froggitt, dictated down a bad line to Alan Plater', 'Stealing for a Living', 'The Legend of the Big Meeting' (1983), 'Illustrated Lecture to the Sports and Social Club', 'Strange Fruit', 'Humber Bridge Radio', 'Taking the Time', 'In the Beginning was the Phone-Call', 'Plays' (1984), 'Raich', 'Notes on a Seven-Part Television Series based on 'The Warden' and 'Barchester Towers' by Anthony Trollope', 'Alan Plater Interviews Himself' (1974), 'Skyhooks', 'The Listener - Names and Faces', 'Writing for Television', 'Giant Steps', 'Wish You Were Here', 'The Trinity Tales' (1975), 'Mike', 'The More You Read, the More There is to Read', 'When the Boat Comes In', 'The Club that will have me as a Member', 'Walter Greenwood', 'The Vicar Did It', 'Swallows on the Water', 'Song of the Silent Majority', 'Television and the Theatre', 'Hull Truck - an introduction', 'Everybody Rules Ok?', 'Alan Plater Talking About Hull', 'Welcome Little Stranger', 'Assorted Comedians', 'Sleep it off, Lady', 'Twenty Five Years Hard - A Personal Retrospective' (1976), 'Breaking Out', 'The Best Policy', 'The Legend of Lucan and McShane' (1982), 'Unglamorous Nights', 'Living Dangerously in Spring Street', 'Hull Tomorrow' (1972), 'Taking the Time' (1983), 'Drama Department Birthday Book', 'My Favourite Silly Story', 'When the Joking Had to Stop, 'Joining the Banned', 'The Old Town - Triumphant decade or a Decayed Triumph?', 'Battling Bairstow', and 'Hull and Humberside - The Beginning of the Line' (1973); loose press cuttings of poems by Alan Plater; a synopsis for a proposed television play entitled 'It Feels Like Monday'; typed scripts entitled 'At the Bus Stop', 'Access', 'Through Northern Eyes' (1974), 'Archive Auction', 'Ilkley Festival Contribution' and 'Hotel Lounge'; various handwritten notes and draft untitled scripts; various press cuttings of articles by or about Alan Plater; a draft script for a sketch for the Royal Court Show; typed extract from a holiday diary with handwritten drawings; a typed diary entitled 'Homage to Jura: Diary of Research Trip' (Feb 1983); a typed script entitled 'Labour Festival: Auntie Maggie's Remedy - A Tragic Farce' by Alan Plater; a typed journal of a holiday to Portugal and Spain; a typed holiday journal entitled 'Weekend at Windsor'; an outline for a suggested television series entitled 'Temps'; a review of 'Useful Toil - Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s' edited by John Burnett; a poem entitled 'Silver Wedding Song for Annie and Vince'; and a script for a TUC festival sketch entitled 'Public Holiday'.
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Language:
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
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Papers of Alan Plater
