Alan Plater Movies

The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years...

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

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

A city planner puts his breinchild into operation without considering the heartbreak it causes to the people affected.

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

A writer seeking seclusion takes rooms in a remote farmhouse. Soon his quiet is broken by sounds and then sightings of a small child...

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

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

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