Barry Pilton
Barry Pilton (born 1946 in Croydon, Surrey) is a travel writer, radio and television comedy scriptwriter and novelist. He was educated in Dulwich College and King's College London. In 1967-8 he taught English in Paris and from 1969 worked as a journalist on the Sunday Post, becoming a freelance writer in 1976.[1] He has worked on Not the Nine O'Clock News,[2] Shelley,[3] Week Ending and Spitting Image.[4] Between 1984 and 1999 he lived in Llandefailogfach near Brecon in Mid Wales and his first novel The Valley is concerned with the effect of outsiders on the rural status quo. He now lives in Bristol,[5] and is working on a television adaptation of The Valley.[6]
Travel Writing
[edit | edit source]- Miles of London (1981) (with Sybil Harper) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- One Man and His Bog (1986) (on walking the Pennine Way) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- One Man and His Log (1988) (on sailing the Canal du Nivernais in France) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- An Innocent Abroad (1997) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Novels
[edit | edit source]- The Valley (2005) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Town with No Twin (2007) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Land of My Neighbours (2009) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ One Man and His Bog author notes
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- ^ Cult TV – Reviews – SHELLEY – SERIES ONE
- ^ The Valley author notes
- ^ An everyday story of country folk – icWales
- ^ Bloomsbury.com - Bloomsbury Author Information
External links
[edit | edit source]- Barry Pilton at IMDb
- Interview with Barry Pilton (Feb 2005)
- Author webpage
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- 1946 births
- Living people
- English humorists
- English travel writers
- English radio writers
- People from Croydon
- Writers from the London Borough of Croydon
- People educated at Dulwich College
- Alumni of King's College London
- 21st-century English novelists
- English male novelists
- 21st-century English male writers
- English male non-fiction writers
- English writer stubs