The writer Michael Chaplin has many credits in TV, radio and the theatre but since he moved back to his native Newcastle in 2006, the North-East has featured in many new pieces of work in both drama and prose. On 30 March 2016 he will outline the results, and the challenges and rewards of writing about his home patch.
The talk will take place at The Corner House, Heaton Road, NE6 5RP on Wednesday 30 March 2016 (Please note change from the originally advertised date) at 7.30pm and is FREE to Heaton History Group members. Non-members pay £2. The doors open at 7.00pm. You are advised to take your seat by 7.15pm. Please book your place by contacting maria@heatonhistorygroup.org /07443 594154. Until Wednesday 13 January, bookings will be accepted from Heaton History Group members only but after that will be open to all-comers.
About our speaker
Michael was born in County Durham but brought up in Newcastle and educated at Heaton Grammar. He followed his father, the renowned novelist Sid Chaplin, into newspaper journalism before a career in television as a current affairs and documentary maker. Since he became a full-time writer 20 years ago, he has written many series and films for the BBC and ITV and plays for Radio 4, as well as establishing a long relationship with Newcastle’s Live Theatre, producing most recently ‘A Walk-On Part’, a dramatisation of the acclaimed diaries of ex-MP Chris Mullin, and the musical play ‘Tyne’ based on his own book ‘Tyne View’. His connection with Heaton continues; he is President of the People’s theatre.
