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Michael Chaplin is an English theatre, radio, television and non-fiction writer and former television producer and executive.

After graduating from Cambridge University in 1973 with a degree in history he trained as a reporter on The Journal newspaper in Newcastle upon Tyne and then became the paper's Health Correspondent.

In 1977 he moved to London, becoming successively a researcher, producer, director and executive producer in London Weekend Television's current affairs and documentaries department. Among his many credits there was editor of the cult arts/lifestyle show South of Watford which helped to establish the TV careers of its successive presenters, Ben Elton and Hugh Laurie. He then produced the ITV drama series as Wish Me Luck about female secret agents in France during World War II which aired on ITV between 1988-1990.

In 1989 he became Head of Drama and Arts at Tyne Tees Television and was Executive Producer of the early Catherine Cookson adaptations, which ran on ITV with great success for a further decade or more.

In 1991 Chaplin moved to BBC Wales as Head of Programmes where he was responsible for transforming the BBC's output in English on both television and radio. By this time Chaplin had begun to write for Live Theatre the acclaimed new writing company in Newcastle upon Tyne, collaborating first with Alan Plater on 'In Blackberry Time' , a play about the life and work of his late father, Sid Chaplin.[1]

His first credit on television was the ITV mini-series 'Act of Betrayal' about an IRA super-grass on the run in Australia, co-written with his friend and former LWT colleague Nicholas Evans .

His first radio writing credit was Hair In The Gate for BBC Radio 4, based on a play of the same name staged at Live Theatre the year before.

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Michael Chaplin

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Books from Michael Chaplin

I Couldn't Smoke the Grass On My Father's Lawn

Newcastle United Stole My Heart: Sixty Years in Black and White

The Ferryhill Philosophers

Norman Cornish: A Shot Against Time

A Walk On Part: The Fall of New Labour

Tommies, Series Two: 1915

Tommies: The Complete BBC Radio Collection

Fix This Moment: Writers respond to North East literary history

Come And See - The Beguiling Story of the Tyneside Cinema

Hame

A Walk On Part: The Fall of New Labour