Smith Scripts have just published five of my radio scripts for GILBERT WITHOUT SULLIVAN.
Meanwhile the second series of GILBERT WITHOUT SULLIVAN is being repeated on Radio 4 Extra from 23rd November. Details here.
I am very excited that Sian Phillips has just recorded my radio monologue THE SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN directed by Martin Jenkins. This is a Pier Production and it's scheduled for transmission early in the New Year on Radio 4. More details when available.
Just out on Smith Scripts my monologue Ho! Ho! Ho! written for Bernard Cribbins about a disgruntled shopping centre Santa.
My dramatisation of Goncharov's great comic novel starring Toby Jones is back on Radio4 Extra and available on Sounds.
All ten of my Sketches by Boz dramatisations currently available again on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
The casts are fantastic and Sally Avens did a brilliant job.
I think this one is still my favourite - Love and Oysters
Smith Scripts have just added two more of my scripts - MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING and the stage version of OBLOMOV.
More details here.
In the latest issue (508-9) a nice article by Matthew Peck about Classic Who Infinity which mentions the question and answer session I gave the group in April. And very good fun it was too.
Gilbert Without Sullivan, my dramatisations of W.S,Gilbert's short stories, narrated by Jonathan Coy, are being repeated on BBCRadio 4. Episodes are available for four weeks. Ep One The Finger of Fate stars the wonderful combination of Stephen Moore and Alison Steadman.
https://www.bbc.co.u...
Just published online by Smith Scripts, the stage versions of my two pieces about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood - Double Jeopardy and Strangers on a Film. Plus the text of my ground-breaking comedy about love, lust and older gay men, Told Look Younger.
Details here.
Generous praise from award-winning writer and historian, Anton Gill:
I think THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE is brilliant. You manage to recreate a period style without being heavy handed about it at all, and the characters emerge fully 3D through a difficult technical process perfectly suited to your subj...
The splendid Smith Scripts website has now published two of my stage plays: Tales the Countess Told and The Speculator, my adaptation of Balzac's only comedy. Details can found here.
Many years ago I worked with the legendary Irish film director Brian Desmond Hurst on his memoirs. Plans are now well advanced to get these memoirs into print as part of a lavish new illustrated volume about Brian's films prepared by Brian's great nephew Allan Elser Smith and his daughter Caitlin...
First announcement of the first slate of Cutaway Comics including Paradise Found inspired by Paradise Towers.
There's also an article by Matt Charlton in the latest edition of Dr Who Magazine about the Cutaway launch with some comments from me.
Had great fun writing the screenplay for IF IT'S BAROQUE, DON'T FIX IT, a lockdown romp for all my chums at the Weaver Dance Company. Currently in production, with Matt Devitt as director and Evelyn Nallen in charge of music, it's loosely based on Handel's Agrippina and offers among others things...
Plans are proceeding apace for the comic book based on the characters of Paradise Towers. See the upcoming issue of Dr Who Magazine. Good wishes to writer Sean Mason and publisher Gareth Kavanagh in this new venture.