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Dennis Potter

June 2024

  • Dennis Potter, playwright and TV writer

    ‘The quality of the writing was clear as a bell’: the astonishing talent of Dennis Potter

    The trailblazing dramatist, who died in 1994 at 59, was celebrated for his extraordinary creativity, but also had work banned by the BBC. His peers discuss his legacy – and that extraordinary final interview

March 2024

  • Guantánamo detention camp seen from above.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Serial season 4: Guantánamo; Hidden Treasures: The Dumb Waiter, Traitor; Dial F for Football – review

    The grandaddy of podcasts reassesses the US terrorist detention camp; a rerun of Pinter and Potter plays is not to be missed. And at last, a genuinely funny new radio comedy…

September 2023

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    Sir Michael Gambon obituary

    Versatile actor with a magnificent presence who starred in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films

May 2023

  • Black and white portrait of Dennis Potter

    Dennis Potter script discovered that casts new light on The Singing Detective

    Unknown work The Last Television play found in writer’s archive features scenes that later appeared in BBC series

April 2023

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    Christopher Gunning obituary

    Composer best known for creating the theme music for the popular and long-running ITV series Poirot

March 2023

  • Alison Steadman

    The reader interview
    Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’

    The actor on working with Dennis Potter, channelling real life in Abigail’s Party and a groundbreaking lesbian snog

January 2023

  • Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell in a scene from the ‘quite extraordinary’ Pennies from Heaven, 1978.

    Piers Haggard obituary

    Film and television director whose work included the BBC’s 1978 Dennis Potter series Pennies From Heaven

April 2022

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    Gavin Millar obituary

  • Priest, violinist, gambler, soldier, occultist and translator of The Iliad … Heath Ledger as the Venetian lover with Sienna Miller in Lasse Hallstrom’s 2005 film.

    Ultimate sleazeball or tortured romantic? The truth about serial seducer Casanova

November 2019

  • Graham Potter at 1980 lecture

    Dennis Potter lecture to feature in BFI's 2019 'lost films' series

    TV writer is seen lashing out at BBC after it pulled out of event because he did not work in film

August 2018

  • Anne-Marie Duff

    Dennis Potter's adaptation of The White Hotel to premiere on Radio 4

    Anne-Marie Duff to star in BBC radio play based on the sprawling and controversial novel

July 2018

  • Bernard Hepton as the Kommandant in a 1973 episdoe of Colditz.

    Bernard Hepton obituary

    Actor best known for his roles in the TV series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Colditz and I, Claudius

March 2018

  • Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell in Dennis Potter’s Pennies from Heaven.

    From the Guardian archive
    Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven reviewed - archive, 1978

    8 March 1978: Potter’s enchanting musical is delicious, delightful and de-lovely with a dark undertow

February 2018

  • Bob Carlton in 2003.

    Other lives
    Bob Carlton obituary

    Other lives: Playwright and director best known for Return to the Forbidden Planet

January 2018

  • Bella Emberg and Russ Abbot, with whom she gained her greatest fame on his Madhouse TV show in the 1980s and 90s

    Bella Emberg obituary

    Actor and comedian best known for her TV role as Blunderwoman alongside Russ Abbot

November 2017

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    Keith Barron obituary

    Versatile stage and screen actor who starred in Stand Up, Nigel Barton and found fame in the 1980s sitcom Duty Free

November 2016

  • John Carson, right, in Guardian of the Abyss, 1980, one of the 13 episodes of the Hammer House of Horror television series.

    John Carson obituary

    Stalwart film and television actor with a talent for playing snarling villains

November 2015

  • The Golden Compass

    Mark Lawson on television
    Why TV could be perfect for Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

    The fantasy author’s enthusiastic about his novels being adapted for the small screen. Let’s hope the producers don’t insist they have to ‘sound every note’
  • Leben Ist Der Beste Stoff Alive & Kicking Lenny Henry (L) *** Local Caption *** 1991 BBC<br>D1HJW8 Leben Ist Der Beste Stoff Alive & Kicking Lenny Henry (L) *** Local Caption *** 1991 BBC

    Mark Lawson on television
    BBC Store launch is an early Christmas present for TV viewers

    The BBC’s new online content shop offers a tantalising selection of unforgettable and forgotten TV. Here’s my wish list
  • Kindly ... Colin Welland with David Bradley in Kes.

    Colin Welland: an enduringly popular presence and Jeremy Corbyn prototype

    As the writer of Chariots of Fire and a thoroughly relatable actor, Welland exemplified a bluff British egalitarianism that prompted a widespread affection
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