Award-winning
BBC radio producer whose fascination with people fuelled documentaries and dramaThough the radio producer Piers Plowright, who has died aged 83 of
cancer, began his three decades at the BBC working on drama, he found his true voice with documentary features. His fascination for people and the situations they find themselves in sparked his flair for capturing voices and sounds.
The title of Nobody Stays in This House Long (1983) came from an estate agent’s warning defied by a
London couple, and now leaving the Kensington residence they loved after more than half a century. Setting Sail (1985) gathered reflections from a variety of figures as they approached death. One Big Kitchen Table (1988) portrayed the life of the Famous Delicatessen, a home of Jewish food in Philadelphia.