- For the Australian field hockey player see Graham Reid
Graham Reid is a former field hockey defender and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain...
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Graham Reid (born 1945) is a teacher and playwright from
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Born into a working class family, Reid married young, but returned to education and graduated from
Queen's UniversityQueen's University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The university's official title, per its charter, is the Queen's University of Belfast. It is often referred to simply as Queen's, or by the abbreviation QUB...
in 1976. He became a teacher at
Gransha Boys' High SchoolBangor Academy and Sixth Form College is a secondary school situated in the town of Bangor, Northern Ireland.The school has been designated as a core school by the South Eastern Education and Library Board to provide up-to-date accommodation for its pupils...
in
Bangor, County DownBangor is a large town in County Down, Northern Ireland, with a population of 76,403 people in the 2001 Census, making it the most populous town in Northern Ireland and the third most populous settlement in Northern Ireland. It is a seaside resort situated on the southern side of Belfast Lough and...
but left in 1980 to concentrate on his writing career.
Characters in his work
The Hidden Curriculum were based on pupils and teachers from the school he taught at.
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- For the Australian field hockey player see Graham Reid
Graham Reid is a former field hockey defender and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain...
.
Graham Reid (born 1945) is a teacher and playwright from
BelfastBelfast is the capital of and the largest city in Northern Ireland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom. It is the seat of devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly. It is the largest urban area in the province of Ulster, and the second largest city on the island of...
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Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and it is situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
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Born into a working class family, Reid married young, but returned to education and graduated from
Queen's UniversityQueen's University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The university's official title, per its charter, is the Queen's University of Belfast. It is often referred to simply as Queen's, or by the abbreviation QUB...
in 1976. He became a teacher at
Gransha Boys' High SchoolBangor Academy and Sixth Form College is a secondary school situated in the town of Bangor, Northern Ireland.The school has been designated as a core school by the South Eastern Education and Library Board to provide up-to-date accommodation for its pupils...
in
Bangor, County DownBangor is a large town in County Down, Northern Ireland, with a population of 76,403 people in the 2001 Census, making it the most populous town in Northern Ireland and the third most populous settlement in Northern Ireland. It is a seaside resort situated on the southern side of Belfast Lough and...
but left in 1980 to concentrate on his writing career.
Characters in his work
The Hidden Curriculum were based on pupils and teachers from the school he taught at. He went on to write a trio of plays for the
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Play for TodayPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. Over three hundred original plays, most between an hour and ninety minutes in length, were transmitted during the fourteen-year period the series aired, and it is by far the...
series. These were
Too Late to Talk to Billy (1982),
A Matter of Choice for Billy (1983) and
A Coming to Terms for Billy (1984). They are colloquially known as
The Billy Plays. The plays starred a young
Kenneth BranaghKenneth Charles Branagh is a Northern Irish actor and film director.- Early life :Branagh, the second of three children, was born and brought up in Belfast to working class Protestant parents Frances and William Branagh, a plumber and joiner who ran a company that specialised in fitting...
, who had previously worked in his futuristic play
Easter 2016, which was screened as part of the BBC's Play for Tomorrow series. In 1992 he wrote a screen play for the movie
You, Me & MarleyYou, Me & Marley is a 1992 independent drama movie starring Marc O'Shea, Bronagh Gallagher, Michael Liebmann, and Michael Gregory.Directed by Richard Spence and produced by Chris Parr, the screenplay was written by Graham Reid.-Synopsis:...
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