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Peter Bowker
Peter Bowker was a special needs teacher in Leeds for fourteen years, while writing and failing to sell short stories, novels, plays and poetry. He finally got his break in 1991 writing for the BBC TV hospital drama Casualty (1986– present) and has, since then, written for many long-running series including Peak Practice (1993–2002) and Clocking Off (2000–03). His original work includes Undercover Heart (1997), Flesh and Blood (2002), Blackpool (2004), Occupation (2009), Eric and Ernie (2010), Monroe (2011–2012), From There to Here (2013), Marvellous (2014), Capital (2015) and The A-Word (2016). A second series of The A-Word is due for transmission in 2017. He is currently working on a multiple-viewpoint telling of World War II, and a drama about Syrian refugees coming to the United Kingdom. Amongst numerous awards, he has won four BAFTAs, three Writers’ Guild Awards, and has been the Royal Television Society Writer of the Year four times. After being screened in the United States, his musical serial Blackpool was nominated for a Golden Globe.