Peter Bowker
| Peter Bowker | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1958 (age 58–59) Hazel Grove, , England |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, playwright |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Drama |
| Notable works |
Blackpool Occupation Desperate Romantics |
| Notable awards |
RTS Award for Best Writer |
RTS Award for Best Writer
2002 Flesh and Blood
2009 Occupation
Peter Bowker (born 1958) is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the television serials Blackpool (2004), a musical drama about a shady casino owner; Occupation (2009), which follows three military servicemen adjusting to civilian life after a tour of duty in Iraq; and Desperate Romantics (2009), a biographical drama about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 2007, he adapted Blackpool for CBS as Viva Laughlin.
Born and raised in Hazel Grove, , Bowker was educated at Marple Hall School and read philosophy and English at the University of Leeds. He taught for twelve years in a Leeds hospital unit for the intellectually disabled, and went on to study for an M.A. in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where his tutors were novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. He switched to the screenwriting course after realising he preferred writing dialogue.
Bowker began his career writing for the long-running BBC medical drama Casualty in 1992. He wrote seven episodes of the series, including the 1993 episode "Boiling Point", in which the emergency department is burnt down by rioters. "Boiling Point" attracted 17 million viewers and hundreds of complaints, and led to Bowker writing for Medics and Peak Practice.
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