Biography
Peter Flannery is an English playwright and screenwriter. Born on 12 October 1951 in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, he was educated at the University of Manchester and served as writer-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He wrote the original stage play Our Friends in the North (1982) and its acclaimed nine-part BBC television adaptation (1996), which follows four friends in Newcastle across three decades. His other stage work includes Savage Amusement (1978) and Singer (1989). Television credits encompass Blind Justice (1988), Inspector George Gently (2007–2017, which he created and adapted), and The Devil's Whore (2008).
Flannery has received multiple awards, including BAFTAs for Our Friends in the North and the Dennis Potter Award for outstanding achievement in television writing in 1997.
