Alan Plater Movies

The new owners of a Manor House discover a legend that whoever is carried across the threshold shall unleash unknown forces...

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...

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

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...

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....

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

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

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.