Published today!The first part of Paradise Found the Cutaway Comic sequel to my Paradise Towers from the great team of Sean Mason, Silvano Beltramo and Andrew Orton. Congratulations to them and Cutaway mastermind Gareth Kavanagh. Four parts in all.

Honoured that Told Look Younger made a shortlist of 10 out of over 700 submissions for the Carlo Annoni Prize 2021.

It's now official. Penelope Keith will be starring in my play Two Cigarettes in the Dark directed by Alan Strachan in a nine week tour beginning in February at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Details here.

Needless to say, I am both excited and terrified!

A mediaeval town puts a pig on trial for murder. My play PIGLAW first broadcast in 1989 is back on Radio4 Extra for 26 days from today (17th August)

The Rudest Man in Britain about Gilbert Harding includes a recording of my play about him starring the inimitable Roger Allam. It's available via Radio4Extra for another 29 days from today (8th August).

Very touched by the many favourable comments I've received about Paradise Towers after its release on bluray. Hard to remember now the time when PT was often voted one of the Worst Dr Who Stories Ever. My favourite among many generous comments is this from Guy Lambert on Twitter:

Finished Paradi...

Just taken delivery of the bluray box of Season 24 which includes my Classic Who story Paradise Towers. It's been produced with loving care both in design and content so many thanks to the team who worked on it.

My ten dramatisations of the short stories of W.S.Gilbert Gilbert Without Sullivan available this month from Penguin Audio Books.

The scripts are available from Smith Scripts.

I'll be doing a Zoom interview for Time Scoop Spearhead on July 4th at 10 am. Details here.

My ten radio dramatisations of Dickens' Sketches by Boz are now available from Penguin Audio Books.

Five of the scripts are also available from Smith Scripts.

Delighted to have been shortlisted for the 2021 Carlo Annoni Prize.

The Season 24 Bluray box is out on 21st June. It includes Paradise Towers in blu ray plus restoration of cut scenes, pdfs of scripts and camera scripts, a documentary about the making of PT, an audio commentary with me and Mark Ayres (already available on the DVD version). And the same lavish tre...

Signed cover of Ryan Aplin's art work available.

Ulster TV's film critic and documentary maker Brian Henry Martin reviews Hurst on Film.

Smith Scripts have just published five of my popular dramatisations of Sketches by Boz. Details here.