Peter Bowker | |
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| Born | 5 January 1959[1] Hazel Grove, Stockport, England |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, playwright |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Drama |
| Notable works | Blackpool Occupation Capital The A Word |
| Notable awards | RTS Award for Best Writer 2002 Flesh and Blood 2009 Occupation Awarded Doctorate of Letters at University of Keele 16 July 2015 |
Peter Bowker (born 5 January 1959) is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the television serials Blackpool (2004), a musical drama about a shady casino owner in the north of England; Occupation (2009), which follows three military servicemen adjusting to civilian life after a tour of duty in Iraq; Capital (2015), an Emmy award-winning drama about real-estate bubbles in South London; and The A Word (2016), an adaptation of Keren Margalit's Israeli drama Yellow Peppers about a family raising an autistic child. In 2007, he adapted Blackpool for CBS as Viva Laughlin.