When ice-cream man Giuseppe Raffa decides it's finally time to come in from the cold and retire, he sets his two sons in competition with each other. Over the next twelve months - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the fall of Thatcher - Rocco and Lino will compete to see who can sell the most ice-cream. The winner will gain the family business; the loser will be left with nothing.Supported and obstructed by Rocco's wife Bernie and Lino's girlfriend Lulu, the fight for the hearts and money of the people of Manchester quickly becomes a deadly serious business. And soon everybody's screaming for ice-cream ...All the Ordinary Angels opened at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, on 26 October 2005.'Lively, thought-provoking and hilariously funny' The Stage

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Nick Leather's debut stageplay All The Ordinary Angels was produced on the main stage of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre and won the Pearson Award for Best New Play, whilst Billy Wonderful was produced at the Liverpool Everyman and his popular children's drama Rocket's Island is broadcast on CBBC. His other television work includes Justice (BBC1), Jimmy McGovern's Moving On (BBC1), Stepping Up (CBBC/BBC1) and Secrets and Words (BBC1). In 2012, he won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Episode Of A Continuing Drama for his work on Hollyoaks. He created the Radio 4 series Cottonopolis, and his other radio work includes The Domino Man of Lancashire and Wednesdays with Strangers (both Radio 4), and A Northern Elegy (Radio 3). He has previously been Playwright-in-Residence at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Screenwriter-in-Residence at Lime Pictures, and Writer-on-Attachment at the Royal National Theatre, as well as developing a number of original projects for BBC Television, Lime Pictures, LA Productions and Creative England. 1024x768