Alick Rowe was a British writer born in 1939. He died on 30 October 2009 in Chiang Mai, Thailand of a suspected heart attack.[1]
He was head boy at Hereford Cathedral School before graduating from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. From the early 1970s onwards he wrote prolifically for radio and television. His BBC radio plays include "Crisp and Even Brightly" (a comedic retelling of the Good King Wenceslas story) and "Operation Lightning Pegasus" (about the siege of Troy).[2]
In addition to his radio plays, he scripted television programmes including "Up School" (1970), "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1978), "Two People" (1979), "Claire" (1982), "Morgan's Boy" (1984), "A Sort of Innocence" (1987), and season one of the BBC sci fi series The Tripods.
His published books include "Boy at the Commercial" a portrait of life at a pub in Hereford, where he lived for the first sixteen years of his life, "Morgan's Boy", "Voices of Danger", "The Panic Wall", "Trapped", "Derek Dungbeetle in Paradise" and "Derek Dungbeetle and the Lost Lover."
He won a BAFTA award in 1992. In 1999 he pleaded guilty to child indecency and was jailed for a year.[1]