Bob Carlton obituary
Bob Carlton, who has died aged 67 after suffering from cancer, was a writer and director who shared Dennis Potter's faith in the power of popular song within drama, most famously expressed in his Return to the Forbidden Planet, which won the Olivier award for best new musical in 1989. Billed as "Shakespeare's forgotten rock'n'roll masterpiece", it grafted nearly 30 great hits on to plot and dialogue based on The Temp…