AN Altrincham man’s play is being staged at this year’s Ticket to Write Beatles-themed playwriting event now in its fifth year.

And it’s the 'Fifth Beatle' Pete Best who has interested Peter Harrison, a retired journalist and broadcaster.

Peter’s drama, 'Drums Along The Mersey', is an affectionate look at the part Pete’s mother Mona played as the Godmother of Merseybeat.

Peter worked first in newspapers and then with BBC radio and television in Manchester.

He has written talks and stories for BBC Radio 4 and is the author of many plays both for BBC local radio and the stage. The most recent, “Liverpool-Dieppe, One-Way”, was transmitted on Radio Merseyside to mark the Battle of The Atlantic celebrations in 2013.

Peter’s play, 'The Circus on Lime Street', about the notorious Liverpool case known as the Cameo Cinema Murders, was staged in successive years in the preserved Victorian courtroom in St George’s Hall, Liverpool, where George Kelly, victim of a sinister police conspiracy, was convicted and later hanged for the crime, being posthumously pardoned more than 50 years later.

Ticket to Write is being staged at Unity Theatre, Liverpool, on September 23 and 24.

“We have two very different stories but each celebrates the Beatles and their music in its own way,” says producer Jamie Gaskin.

It is partnered with “Shake It Up Baby” a powerful yet moving comedy about Beatles-fanatic Bev who gets more than she bargained or when she seeks romance on the internet.

“Shake It Up Baby” author Suzan Holder, from Prestbury, is a writer, television and theatre producer and director.

She trained as a newspaper journalist before moving into TV. She was series producer of ITV’s daytime show 'Loose Women'. Suzan has worked as a theatre producer for Brendan O’Carroll, creator and star of BBC TV comedy 'Mrs Brown’s Boys'.

Tickets and more information at www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk or call the box office on 0151-709-4988. Also check out the Ticket to Write website www.acedrama.co.uk