Britain has lost one of its greatest actors in the Irish-born star who found fame in Dennis Potter’s groundbreaking TV drama The Singing Detective.
- Emeritus Professor in Media, Glasgow Caledonian University
Tune in, Donald Trump: it might just save a lot of lives.
Dennis Potter’s 1986 story of a writer in need of psychological renewal rewrote the TV drama rulebook.
Dennis Potter’s Nigel Barton Plays, 50 years old this month, are the original satires on the vileness of modern politics.
Peter Watkins may not be a household name, but The Hunger Games, John Lennon’s Imagine and the Bourne films would be very different without him.
Everyone’s favourite BBC sci-fi show is sometimes held up as a model of regional development in television. Don’t believe it.
Controversy has raged down the years over whether the film was censored by the government. Now secret files reveal the truth after 50 years.
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