10 Facts About Peter Bowker

Peter Bowker was born on 5 January 1959 and is a British playwright and screenwriter.

Peter Bowker is best known for the television serials Blackpool, a musical drama about a shady casino owner in the north of England; Occupation, which follows three military servicemen adjusting to civilian life after a tour of duty in Iraq; Capital, an Emmy award-winning drama about real-estate bubbles in South London; and The A Word, an adaptation of Keren Margalit's Israeli drama Yellow Peppers about a family raising an autistic child.

Peter Bowker switched to the screenwriting course after realising he preferred writing dialogue.

Peter Bowker began his career writing for the long-running BBC medical drama Casualty in 1992.

Peter Bowker wrote seven episodes of the series, including the 1993 episode "Boiling Point", in which the emergency department is burnt down by rioters.

Peter Bowker has contributed updated versions of "The Miller's Tale" and A Midsummer Night's Dream for the BBC's The Canterbury Tales and Shakespeare ReTold series.

In 2009, Peter Bowker rose back to prominence with a series of high profile and sometimes critically well-received serial dramas.

Peter Bowker followed this with another BBC drama, Desperate Romantics, which received mixed reviews, and an adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights for ITV.

Peter Bowker won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Writer for both 2002, for Flesh and Blood, and 2009, for Occupation.

Peter Bowker's projects have included an adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel, A Spot of Bother, a medical drama series called Monroe for ITV1, and the biographical BBC film Eric and Ernie about Morecambe and Wise, broadcast on 1 January 2011.