Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL (30 June 1939 – 18 March 2016) was an English author, playwright and screenwriter. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire.
He is best known for the novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), which he helped adapt for Ken Loach's film Kes (1969). He collaborated with Loach on adaptations of his novels Looks and Smiles and The Gamekeeper, and the 1977 two-part television drama The Price of Coal.
He also wrote the television film Threads, which depicts the impact of a nuclear war on Sheffield.
Melvin BarryHines, FRSL (30 June 1939 – 18 March 2016) was an English author, playwright and screenwriter. His novels and screenplays explore the political...
A Kestrel for a Knave is a novel by English author BarryHines, published in 1968. Set in an unspecified mining area in Northern England, the book follows...
early roles being in the 1969 Ken Loach film Kes, based on a novel by BarryHines, in which he played a milkman; his sister Lynne Perrie also starred as...
Transgender Identities "BarryHines obituary: author of A Kestrel for a Knave". the Guardian. 2016-03-20. Retrieved 2023-01-11. Hines, Sally (2004). Transgender...
Casper, the mother of kestrel lover Billy, in Kes, a stage adaptation of BarryHines’ book, A Kestrel for a Knave, at Cast in Doncaster, South Yorkshire....
for the university's first XI football team, alongside Bob Wilson and BarryHines), before returning to teach at his former school. By this time he had...
The Price of Coal is a two-part television drama written by BarryHines and directed by Ken Loach first broadcast as part of the Play for Today series...
until 1970, some of it at Longcar Central School, Barnsley, where he met BarryHines who was also teaching there. He managed to combine this with regular...
by Ken Loach. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by BarryHines. The film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where Loach...
who is a falconer. A Kestrel for a Knave is a novel by British author BarryHines, published in 1968. It is set in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and tells...
and 1994. Hines was born in Horsforth, a north-west suburb of Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the third son of Bill and Molly Hines. His mother...
sequel to Kes, but that he had shelved the idea after original author BarryHines' death. Bradley was featured in Kit Monkman's new cinematic interpretation...
Boscombe Valley Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Gamekeeper by BarryHines Kincade in Skyfall Golly Mackenzie in Monarch of the Glen The Gamekeeper...
Jones Glyn Owen Repeated 10 Aug 1972. 4 Feb 1971 Billy's Last Stand BarryHines Graeme McDonald John Glenister Dudley Foster Repeated 20 Apr 1972. Missing...
were livid at this. During his time at Stannington College, Sheffield BarryHines paid a visit looking for extras for his upcoming drama Looks and Smiles...
Archived from the original on 3 April 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017. BarryHines. "Threads". BBC. Retrieved 9 June 2013 – via YouTube.[dead YouTube link]...
company had an interest in the feature films Kes (1969), based on a BarryHines novel, and Family Life (1971), from a television play by David Mercer...
is also one of the main characters in The Animals of Farthing Wood. BarryHines’ novel A Kestrel for a Knave - together with the 1969 film based on it...
and his kestrel, and is based on the novel A Kestrel for a Knave by BarryHines. The film was well received, although the use of Yorkshire dialect throughout...
in the institution. The production was written and directed by Timothy Hines with consultation from one of Bly's modern biographers, Brooke Kroeger....
March 2004 Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse BBC Radio 4 3 October 2003 Kes BarryHines BBC Radio 7 22 February 2003 The Long Weekend Jeremy Front BBC Radio...
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