BBC Documentaries

Frank Vickery: The People's Playwright (2018x191)

Air date: Aug 11, 2018

Writer and actor Frank Vickery's premature death in June 2018 was a huge loss to Welsh theatre. A Rhondda boy who wrote about the place and people he loved, Frank left school at 15 without a single qualification - and yet became Wales's most commercially successful playwright. Celebrities and friends pay tribute to the man dubbed 'the voice of the Valleys'.