Creative Writing

RADIO, AUDIO & IN PRINT

Film

One original feature film screenplay is in pre-production in the UK. A second screenplay, US-commissioned and US-located, is awaiting production. Screenshot of Beyond the Postcard homepage A second UK screenplay has been completed. All are historical dramas, set in the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries respectively.

Production completed in 1999 of a wide-screen film scripted for a theme park in the US.

Video and Multimedia

Two 1-hour narrative videos for Business English teaching courses, collectively titled "English Express" (British Interactive Multimedia Association award winner 1992).

Image of cutting from Radio Times

Voiced as well as wrote all eleven audiovisual and film elements of a major Fleet Air Arm Museum exhibition, The Leading Edge.

Devised and presented 36-element BBC World Service multimedia website Beyond The Postcard for learning English.

Radio and Audio

Thirty years’ experience of both original writing and dramatisation including eleven single plays and one series for BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service and radio stations abroad. Also four major script projects - two series and two serials - for English Learning arm of the BBC World Service. Most recent broadcast 2007.

Abridging of material for audio books, as well as dramatisation for audio which includes Conan Doyle short stories, six of which were also broadcast on the BBC World Service.

Image of cover of Novel: Absolute Discretion

Print

Historical novel Absolute Discretion published by Calabash Press, planned as the first of a trilogy.

Articles include subjects as varied as travel and Sherlock Holmes. Essay on Holmes included in anthology book Ladies Ladies: The Women in Sherlock Holmes’ Life, published by Aventine Press in 2007.

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Member of the Society of Authors, and former Chairman of its Broadcasting Committee
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