Alick Rowe
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Alick Rowe was a British writer born in 1939. He died on 30 October 2009 in Chiang Mai
, Thailand of a suspected heart attack.
He was head boy
at Hereford Cathedral School
before graduating from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. From the early 1970s onwards he wrote prolifically for radio and television. His BBC
radio plays include "Crisp and Even Brightly" (a comedic retelling of the Good King Wenceslas story) and "Operation Lightning Pegasus" (about the siege of Troy).
In addition to his radio plays, he scripted television programmes including "Up School" (1970), "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1978), "Two People" (1979), "Claire" (1982), "Morgan's Boy" (1984), "A Sort of Innocence" (1987), and season one of the BBC sci fi series The Tripods
.
His published books include "Boy at the Commercial" a portrait of life at a pub in Hereford
, where he lived for the first sixteen years of his life, "Morgan's Boy", "Voices of Danger", "The Panic Wall", "Trapped", "Derek Dungbeetle in Paradise" and "Derek Dungbeetle and the Lost Lover."
He won a BAFTA award in 1992. In 1999 he pleaded guilty to child indecency and was jailed for a year.
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai sometimes written as "Chiengmai" or "Chiangmai", is the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand. It is the capital of Chiang Mai Province , a former capital of the Kingdom of Lanna and was the tributary Kingdom of Chiang Mai from 1774 until 1939. It is...
, Thailand of a suspected heart attack.
He was head boy
Head boy
Head Boy and Head Girl are terms commonly used in the British education system, and in private schools throughout the Commonwealth.-United Kingdom:...
at Hereford Cathedral School
Hereford Cathedral School
Hereford Cathedral School is an independent, co-educational day school, with around 520 pupils aged between the ages of 11 and 18. It has four houses, named Langford , Stuart , Somerset and Cornwall Hereford Cathedral School is an independent, co-educational day school, with around 520 pupils aged...
before graduating from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. From the early 1970s onwards he wrote prolifically for radio and television. His BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
radio plays include "Crisp and Even Brightly" (a comedic retelling of the Good King Wenceslas story) and "Operation Lightning Pegasus" (about the siege of Troy).
In addition to his radio plays, he scripted television programmes including "Up School" (1970), "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1978), "Two People" (1979), "Claire" (1982), "Morgan's Boy" (1984), "A Sort of Innocence" (1987), and season one of the BBC sci fi series The Tripods
The Tripods
The Tripods is a series of young adult novels written by John Christopher, beginning in 1967. The first two were the basis of a science fiction TV-series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s....
.
His published books include "Boy at the Commercial" a portrait of life at a pub in Hereford
Hereford
Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, southwest of Worcester, and northwest of Gloucester...
, where he lived for the first sixteen years of his life, "Morgan's Boy", "Voices of Danger", "The Panic Wall", "Trapped", "Derek Dungbeetle in Paradise" and "Derek Dungbeetle and the Lost Lover."
He won a BAFTA award in 1992. In 1999 he pleaded guilty to child indecency and was jailed for a year.