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Peter Flannery (born 12 October 1951) is an English playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Jarrow, County Durham and educated at the

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. He is best known for his work while a resident playwright at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Notable plays during his tenure include: ''Savage Amusement'' (1978), ''Awful Knawful'' (1978), and ''Our Friends in the North'' (1982). Other theatre work has included ''Singer'' (1989). He is perhaps best known to a wider audience for his highly-acclaimed television adaptation of ''

Our Friends in the North ''Our Friends in the North'' is a British television drama serial produced by the BBC. It was originally broadcast in nine episodes on BBC2 in early 1996. Written by Peter Flannery, it tells the story of four friends from Newcastle upon Tyne ...

'', produced by the

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and screened on BBC2 in 1996. The epic nine-part serial, charting the course of the lives of four friends from Newcastle from 1964 to 1995, was voted by the

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in 2000 as one of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century. Flannery's other television work has included ''Blind Justice'' (1988), a series about the work of radical lawyers. At the 1997 British Academy Television Awards, Flannery was given the honorary

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Award for outstanding achievement in television writing. In January 2007, he scripted an adaptation of Alan Hunter's ''Inspector Gently'' novels, entitled ''George Gently'', for

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to be broadcast later in the year. Flannery changed the setting of the stories from Suffolk to the North East in the 1960s and created new characters who had not featured in the novels. ''George Gently'' is produced by

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, reuniting Flannery with ''Our Friends in the North'' producer

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, who co-runs Company and is an executive producer on the series alongside Flannery. The drama was eventually shown on 8 April 2007. The seventh series – now titled ''Inspector George Gently'' – was screened in the spring of 2015. Flannery has also worked in film, although with less success than in other media. He wrote the screenplays for films such as ''

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'' (1995) and '' The One and Only'' (2002). In 2008,

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transmitted Flannery's mini-series about the

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, ''

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'', on which he had worked for more than a decade. In 2014, the channel released a four-part continuation, titled ''New Worlds''. This series was set in England and America in the 1680s and was co-written by Martine Brandt. It featured various characters of a new generation, played by

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,

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,

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, and

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. Flannery's stage adaptation of

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's film ''

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'' opened at the National Theatre, London, in March 2009. The cast included

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as General Kotov,

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as Mitya, and

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as Maroussia. Flannery lives in

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.

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References

*Rebellato, Dan. ''The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre'' (ed. Colin Chambers).

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Article on ''Burnt by the'' Sun by ndrea Grunerti

June 2010. {{DEFAULTSORT:Flannery, Peter Alumni of Bath Spa University English dramatists and playwrights English television writers People from Jarrow Writers from Tyne and Wear 1951 births Living people English male dramatists and playwrights British male television writers