Alan Plater Movies

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...

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...

Sam and Ingrid start out with dreams of marrying someone rich who will make life easy. When they find they do not match up to each other's dreams...

Documentary film about the musician Jake Thackray

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.

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

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