Brian Plummer (born David Brian Plummer on 11 September 1936 in South Wales) was a Welsh writer. He became famous after an appearance in 1977 on Richard Whiteley's Calendar regional news programme, in which a ferret became 'latched' onto Whiteley's fingers.Growing up in the austere years around World War II, Plummer based some of his biographical stories in and around the valley in which he grew up.