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 ...

Voices David Bowie’s cultural mash-ups echoed screenwriter Dennis Potter – and their deaths were strangely aligned too. Our need for David Bowie is the need for originality over novelty ...

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 minute Dennis Potter arrived in Oxford as an undergraduate, he made it clear exactly where he was coming from. The man whose fame would eventually border on notoriety as Britain's most ...