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Peter Tinniswood

PETER TINNISWOOD

  (1936 - 2003)
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    MBA Literary Agents Ltd  

Peter Tinniswood, author, playwright and broadcaster was born in Liverpool. He worked as a journalist and then wrote for the satirical BBC show THAT WAS the WEEK THAT WAS and also for Ned Sherin and David Frost. Peter died in 2003 after a long, well chronicled battle with cancer. Despite losing his voice to the cancer, his illness marked an explosion in his Theatre and radio writing.

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         At the End Of the Day         Brigadier And Uncle Mort, The         Croak Croak Croak         Day War Broke But, The         I And the King         Investiture, The         Last Obit, The         Monument, The         Napoli Milionaria         On the Whole It's Been Jolly         Scan, The         Tales From A Long Room         Uncle Mort's North Country         Village Fete, The         Voice Boxer, The         Wilfred         You Should See Us Now

At the End Of the Day

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Brigadier And Uncle Mort, The

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Croak Croak Croak

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This is A double-bill of short plays (the Scan And the Voice Boxer) which was written in response to the Author's fatal illness

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Day War Broke But, The

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Hull Truck Theatre Company

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Samuel French, London, 1995   -

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I And the King

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105 min Play/Drama

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Investiture, The

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Little Theatre, Bristol    1971

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Last Obit, The

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Millicent has been computerized. After a lifetime's work in the Obituary Department of the Morning Telegraph she has been made redundant. the firm however, has allowed her to go out in style - she can write her last obit in her own hand with her own fountain pen. But whose obit will it be? She plunders her memories, her fantasies and her long friendship with the daft and the dead before she makes her decision.

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Pleasance, Edinburgh    -

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70 min Play/Drama

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Monument, The

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Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo

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Napoli Milionaria

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woman does her best to keep family afloat by dealing on the black market in Naples during WW2; adapted to Liverpool location

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Original Playwright - Eduardo de Filippo

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Adaptation

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On the Whole It's Been Jolly

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Sir Plympton Makepeace backbench Tory MP has been 'booted out' after 60 years of dedicated service in the House. 60 years of dedication to mediocrity and sexual dalliances. Sir Plympton leads us down memory lane recalling his involvement in all the major events of the century, but his proudest claim is that he 'never did any harm'.

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60 min One Act

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Scan, The

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a man turns up at a hospital concerned that he has something deeply wrong with his throat. He's put into a scanning machine and talks compulsively as if his life depended on it.
Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph

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part of Croak Croak Croack

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Tales From A Long Room

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Uncle Mort's North Country

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Village Fete, The

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Stephen Joseph Scarboro    1991

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Samuel French, London, 1995   -

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Voice Boxer, The

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A man lies in a hospital bed, silenced by a laryngectomy, while his landlady bustles and gushes over him.
Charles Spence, Daily Telegraph

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Wilfred

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90 min Play/Drama

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You Should See Us Now

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holiday visit of children also bring disapproving ex wife and her mother to annoy couple

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Greenwich, London    1983

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