Late in Dennis Potter's greatest and most famous work, The Singing Detective, the mystery-writer hero Philip Marlow is grumbling about the public's desire for art that offers easy answers: "People ...

Dennis Christopher George Potter was born in 1935, a grammar school boy and scholarship entrant to Oxford, where he became acutely aware of his working-class roots.

The real Dennis Potter The playwright died 10 years ago. To some, he was Dirty Den, purveyor of post-watershed filth; to others, the most innovative dramatist ever to write for the small screen.

Dennis Potter was a television writer who shaped British TV drama over three decades. His final interview took place in April 1994, only a few weeks before his death.

The great thing about Blue Remembered Hills, a 1979 British teleplay written by the great Dennis Potter (Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective), is that it confronts this notion head-on.