RADIO

2019

The Mystery of Edwin Drood – BBC Radio 4
Commissioned to adapt Charles Dickens classic – 10 x 14 min episodes

Tumanbay (Series 4) – Goldhawk Essentials/ BBC Radio 4
4 episodes commissioned

Castle of the Hawk (Series 2) – BBC Radio 4
1 x 60 min episode commissioned

Stalingrad – BBC Radio 4
Commissioned to adapt Anthony Beavor’s epic book (with Jonathan Myerson)

2018

Tumanbay (Series 3) – Goldhawk Essentials/BBC Radio 4
4×44 scripts commissioned

Vive La Revolution (Charles de Gaulle) – Perfectly Normal Productions/Radio 4
1×57 Minute Play Commissioned

Castle of the Hawk – BBC Radio 4
3 x 60 Minute Drama about the Hapsburg Dynasty

2017
Home Front – BBC Radio 4
5 episodes commissioned

2016
Tumanbay (Series 2) – Goldhawk Essentials/BBC Radio 4
8×44 scripts commissioned

The Man Who Would Be King – BBC Radio 4
Classic serial adaptation commission

2015

Home Front – Radio 4
5 episodes of WW1 drama commissioned

The Tsars of all the Russias – BBC Radio 4
4 x 60 classic serial

Tumanbay – BBC Radio 4
10 x 45 minute series based on Turkish history commissioned

2014

Ebola – Perfectly Normal Productions/Radio 4
Original play commissioned

The Bombing of Al-Asquari Mosque – BBC World Service
Drama commissioned

2013

Being Human – BBC Radio 4
60 minute radio play

Mrs Pickwick – BBC Radio 4
Pilot for radio series

Barnaby Rudge – BBC Radio 4
Serial adaptation commissioned

The Stuarts (series 2) – BBC Radio 4
Commissioned

2012

The Edison Cylinders – Fiction Factory/BBC Radio 4
1 x 45 minute radio play

The Stuarts – BBC Radio 4
Saturday drama and classic serial

People Don’t Do Such Things – BBC Radio 4
Ruth Rendell adaptation

Top Kill – BBC Radio 4

2011 

The Real George Orwell – BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play commission

Beyond Borders – Perfectly Normal Productions/Radio 4
Original play commission

Burma – BBC Radio 4
Original play commission

The Product – BBC Radio 3
1 x 60 min script

Homage to Catalonia – BBC Radio 4
2 x 60 minute classic serial adaptation

Amours de Voyage – BBC Radio 4
1 x 45 minute adaptation from poem

The House of Leaves – Fiction Factory/Radio 4
1 hour adaptation script commissioned

Plantagenet 3 – BBC Radio 4
3 x 60 min scripts

2010 

The Road Home – BBC Radio 4
1 x 60 min script for Saturday Radio Play

Life and Fate – BBC Radio 4
Episodes for Classic Serial, Woman’s Hour and Afternoon Play

Plantagenet 2 – BBC Radio 4
3 x 60 min scripts

A Tale of Two Cities – BBC Radio 4
5 x 45 min scripts

2009 

Spitfire! – Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4
50 min radio play to commemorate anniversary of Battle of Britain

Scumdog Millionaire – BBC Radio 4
5 x 15min scripts commissioned

The Gun – Radio 4
60 min dramatisation for Saturday Play

No Highway – Radio 4
Classic Serial

Darger and the Detective – BBC Radio 4

2008 

Forty Three, Fifty Nine, Yara – Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4

A Killing 2  – BBC Radio 4

On The Beach – BBC Radio 4

Plantagent – Radio 4
60 min dramatisation

Our Mutual Friend – Radio 4
20 x 15 minute dramatisation

The Man in Black – BBC Radio 7

Rendezvous with Rama – BBC Radio 4

Sunk – BBC Radio 4

It’s Better with Animals – Corporation for Independent Media
Commissioned to write adaptation of three short stories for BBC Radio 4

2007 

Dickens Confidential – BBC Radio 4
4 scripts commissioned

Slaughterhouse 30,000 – Corporation for Independent Media/Radio 4
60 minute play commissioned

Forty-Three Fifty-Nine – Goldhawk Productions/Radio 4
Original 45 minute script commissioned (developed with John Dryden)

The M27 Project – BBC Radio Solent
Play commissioned

City Speaks – Radio 4
Short play commissioned for mixed media (radio/film) project

Drowning – Watershed/Radio 4
Original afternoon play commissioned and broadcast

Babel’s Tower – Radio 3
90 minute radio play

Five Days in July – BBC Radio 4

Dombey and Son – Radio 4
20 part adaptation commissioned and broadcast on Woman’s Hour

Veldt – Corporation for Independent Media/Radio 4
Adaptation commissioned

2006

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime – BBC Radio 4

Kipps – Fiction Factory/Radio 4
2 hour adaptation of H G Wells’ novel commissioned

2005

Hooligan Nights – Radio 3
Commissioned to write play

At Home with the Hensons – Radio 4
Original radio play commissioned in conjunction with Open University.

The Interactive Murder – BBC Radio Berkshire
60 minute drama commissioned

David Copperfield – BBC Radio 4
26 part Woman’s Hour serial broadcast

The Radetzky March – BBC Radio 3
2 hour adaptation commissioned

2004 

Oxford Road – BBC Radio Berkshire
Drama – winner of Silver Community Award at 2005 Sony Awards.

Tide Race – BBC World Service
60 minute radio play commissioned

D Day Project – Radio 4
2 hour original play broadcast to mark D Day anniversary

Philomel Cottage (Agatha Christie) – BBC Radio 4

The Woman in Black – Fiction Factory/Radio 4
Adaptation of Susan Hill novel commissioned and broadcast

2003

The Dark House – Radio 4
Radio play and interactive drama (via www.bbc.co.uk) Winner of an Interactive BAFTA in 2004

The Case of the Perfect Maid (Agatha Christie)  – BBC Radio 4

The Dressmaker’s Doll (Agatha Christie) – BBC Radio 4

The Gun Goes to Hollywood (Also known as: The Pride and Passion) – BBC Radio 4

Caesar – Radio 4
2 x 60 minute classic serial commissioned

They Say I Shot a Man and Killed Him – Radio 4

The Ipcress File – Radio 4
Commissioned to adapt Len Deighton novel

2002-2003 

The Old Curiosity Shop – BBC- Woman’s Hour
26 episodes broadcast December 2002/January 2003

Winner of Talkies Drama Award for audio edition

2002

Waterloo Sunset (Also known as: Waterloo Bridge) – BBC Radio 4

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Radio 4

The Officers Ward – Fiction Factory/Radio 4

Paths of Glory – Radio 4

2001 

Uncertainty – Radio 4
45 minute original play

Antonia – Radio 4

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream – Radio 4

Crossing the Water – Watershed Productions/Radio 4

Swan Song (Agatha Christie) – BBC Radio 4

Magnolia Blossom (Agatha Christie) – BBC Radio 4

2000

Alpha – BBC World Service
(Also broadcast on Radio 4 in 2001)

The Patrick Nicholls Story – Radio 4

Buried by Glass – BBC Radio 4

Omega – BBC World Service (for World Play season)
Worldplay Awards, 2002 Best script, best production

The League of Gentlemen – BBC Radio 4

The African Queen – BBC Radio 4
Classic Serial

The Singapore Grip – BBC Radio 4
Classic Seria

The Island of the Day Before Yesterday – Watershed Productions/BBC Radio 4

The Tunnel Under the World – BBC Radio 4

Neuromancer – World Service

1999

Three Divided by Two -Radio 4

J Edgar Hoover – BBC Radio 4
Series of dramatisations

Bound Feet and Western Dress – BBC Radio 4

William and Henry James – selected letters – BBC Radio 4

1000 Years of English – BBC Radio 4

Crime and Punishment – Radio 4

Nicholas Nickleby – BBC Radio 4’s Daily Serial (with Georgia Pritchett)
Winner of VLV award for best dramatic adaptation

1997 

Silvertown – Radio 4

War and Peace – BBC Radio 4 (with Marcy Kahan)
10 x 60 minutes – Talkies Award best adaptation (audio)

1996 Last Orders – BBC Radio 4

White Jazz – BBC Radio 4 (part of American Noir Series)

1995

The Making of Napoleon – Radio 4

1994

Act or Die – Radio 4

The Sound of Fury – Radio 4

The Tin Drum – BBC Radio 4
Writers Guild Award best adaptation

The War at the End of the World – BBC Radio 4

1993 

Orphans – Radio 4

The Lucan File – BBC Radio 4

1991 

Something Happened – Radio 4

1989 

Texas and the Poppy Fields – Radio 4

Different States – Radio 4
Society of Authors Awards for best script 1991/Sony Award for best play 1991

 

Other script Writing (including)

2003 D Day Project – BBC Radio 4 Commissioned to help develop special event to celebrate the 2004 anniversary

1998-2000 Westway – BBC World Service -One of lead writers

1998-1999 Under One Roof – BBC Radio 4 Daily Serial

1997 Script writer for Monday Afternoon Series

1995 Jonathan Swift – select and compile and original writing

Several dramas and documentaries for Radio 5.

Script Editing (including)

TV
The Roman Empire – Educational series for TV, which won the gold medal of the Royal Television Society; The Victorians

RADIO
Bleak House, The Handmaid’s Tale, A Suitable Boy

Prose

LONG WAY HOME – An account of the convict, Mary Bryant’s, escape in 18th century Australia, published by Wiley 2005

POWDERPUFF DERBY – An account of the American all female aviation race – published by Wiley 2003

AUSTRALIAS, A HISTORY to go with the 13-hour documentary series; three novels based on the television series CASUALTY; the novel TAKEOVER, now out in paperback.