Peter Moffat

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Peter Moffat is a British playwright and screenwriter. His best-known plays are Nabokov's Gloves and Iona Rain.[1]

A former barrister, he is the creator of two British television legal dramas: Kavanagh QC and North Square. He also wrote the miniseries Cambridge Spies and the upcoming television film Einstein and Eddington, as well as a reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth for the BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told series.[2] Moffat won the Writer's Award from the Broadcasting Press Guild for North Square[3], and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2004 for writing Hawking, a miniseries about the scientist Stephen Hawking.[4]

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  1. ^ Morley, Sheridan: But at the Jermyn, a Glorious Musical Mockery : A Murky 'Nabokov's Gloves', International Herald Tribune, May 27, 1998.
  2. ^ Lowry, Brian: Review: ShakespeaRe-Told, Variety, August 4, 2006.
  3. ^ 2001 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Broadcasting Press Guild, 2001.
  4. ^ Television Nominations 2004, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 2004.

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