Novelist and TV writer best known for the ‘folk horror’ Robin Redbreast, which was broadcast on the BBC in 1970
John Bowen, who has died aged 94, virtually abandoned his career as a novelist in the 1960s to concentrate on writing for TV, and made his biggest impression with horror plays and ghost stories. Bowen’s first significant TV work, dubbed “folk horror” and considered his screen masterpiece, was Robin Redbreast, broadcast in the BBC’s Play for Today strand in 1970.
It tells the story of a television drama script editor, Norah Palmer (played by Anna Cropper), seeking to get over the break-up of a relationship by leaving London and her middle-class media friends to start a new life in the country.
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