In G2 Arts (13 October), you quote Alan Parker as saying he wrote The Evacuees. Alan Parker would never claim such a thing, so it has to be a mistake. The Emmy-award-winning play was written by the late, great playwright, Jack Rosenthal, at the behest of the late, great head of Granada TV’s drama department, Peter Eckersley, in the days when ideas were suggested, assessed and commissioned. It was Alan’s first TV play as a director and my first TV play as an actress playing her own mother-in-law.
Maureen Lipman
London
