Dennis Potter was born in 1935 and educated at New College, Oxford. His controversial career as a playwright, journalist and critic began in the 1960s. He was one of the first significant writers to write specifically for the medium of television. Although he was perhaps most widely known for the drama series Pennies from Heaven, for which he received a BAFTA Best Writer?s Award, and The Singing Detective, his credits include almost thirty original plays, nine television serials, three novels, numerous works of journalism and several works of non-fiction. He died in 1994.
