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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gordon McDougall

Carey Harrison obituary

Carey Harrison in Berlin. He won prizes for goat-breeding, as well as for his plays and novels
Carey Harrison in Berlin. He won prizes for goat-breeding, as well as for his plays and novels Photograph: none

My friend and sometime colleague Carey Harrison, who has died aged 80, was a prolific novelist and playwright, and a respected teacher of English.

His early plays were performed at the Traverse theatre in Edinburgh and in the late 1960s he became resident playwright at Granada TV’s Stables Theatre Project, through which his plays were shown on television – I worked with him on the first of these, In a Cottage Hospital, broadcast in 1969.

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