Biography
Peter Bowker is a British playwright and screenwriter. He began his career writing episodes for the BBC medical drama series Casualty in the early 1990s, following seven years of teaching in a Leeds hospital unit for people with intellectual disabilities and an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
He is known for original television works including the musical drama Blackpool (2004), the military drama Occupation (2009), the biographical film Marvellous (2014) and the wartime series World on Fire (2019). He has also adapted material such as Wuthering Heights (2009) and Capital (2015). Bowker has received multiple Royal Television Society awards for writing.
