SO YOU WANT TO WRITE RADIO DRAMA?

So you want to write Radio Drama? by Claire Grove and Stephen Wyatt will be published by Nick Hern Books on 5th December 2013.

We will be doing a launch in collaboration with New Writing South in Brighton as part of NWS's Broadcasting Industry Day on Saturday 30th November.

SOPHIE READS GREATEST SHOW

My copy of the new release of Sophie Aldred reading Greatest Show in the Galaxy arrived a couple of days ago. Great job by Sophie and Simon Power (music score and special effects)

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

My dramatisation of ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS broadcast over Christmas 2012 is now available for download from AudioGO. A snip at £1.99! See November 2012 entry for further information about the production.

NEW WRITING SOUTH

Honoured to be invited to become one of New Writing South's new Artistic Associates. I've enjoyed my times running courses on radio drama for NWS and have enormous respect for the terrific work Chris Taylor and her team do.

We are hoping to organise a joint event in late November to launch the publication by Nick Hern Books of SO YOU WANT TO WRITE RADIO DRAMA? which I've co-written with that distinguished radio director/producer the lovely Claire Grove.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

DOUBLE JEOPARDY with Patrick Stewart as Raymond Chandler and Adrian Scarborough as Billy Wilder is being repeated on Radio 4 at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday 18th July.

CHANDLER, WILDER AND HITCHCOCK

Strangers on a Film, my play about the relationship between Raymond Chandler and Alfred Hitchcock while working on Strangers on a Train is now available as a download from AudioGo. It stars Patrick Stewart as Chandler and Clive Swift as Hitchcock and is directed by Claire Grove.

And by the way Double Jeopardy with Patrick Stewart and Adrian Scarborough as Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder is also still available for download.

TOM JONES and YELLOWPLUSH

Just discovered that my dramatisation of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding for Radio 4 directed by Claire Grove is now available for download as an audiobook from AudioGo.

So is my dramatisation of Thackeray's The Yellowplush Papers directed by Abigail Le Fleming and Jessica Dromgoole.

This is a complete surprise to me and I'm delighted!

CHANDLER FOR NORWAY

Just finished the revisions on my dramatisation of THE LONG GOODBYE for Norwegian Radio. Expanded from ninety minutes into four half hour episodes, it's been possible to include material we had to exclude from the BBC version, restoring the characters of Linda Loring and Harlan Potter. The dramatisation is now being translated into Norwegian for recording in August!

BLUE PLAQUE FOR FABIAN WARE

I have just heard that Sir Fabian Ware, Founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission and the central figure in my radio play MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING is to get a Blue Plaque on the house he lived in Marylebone between 1911 and 1919. I proposed him for commemoration at the time of my play, saying that a man who did so much to create memorials to others deserved one of his own. I'm delighted that the Blue Plaques Panel has agreed with me. The ceremony is scheduled for 2014.

THE WAVING CAT

In rehearsals today for the latest Krazy Kat show THE WAVING CAT in my continuing role as Company Dramaturge. Early days but it looks like another very funny, imaginative and visually rich show. Details of the run can be found on the Krazy Kat website.

Here's a link to a rave review in The Stage.