Potter on Potter
By (Author) Dennis Potter
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Biography: general
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
791.45092
Paperback
192
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
159g
Britain's pre-eminent playwright, novelist and film-maker, Dennis Potter, talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour and acerbic wit about the influences that shaped his career and his work.
Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.