Radio Plays

Writing for radio is very different from writing for theatre - it's much more fluid, more about creating images in the mind, as if what you're making is a film to play inside someone's head.  And, again unlike theatre, radio drama is a very intimate form. No matter how epic or large-scale the play may be, it's always about those voices speaking directly to the ear.

Below is a list of the more important plays I've written or dramatised for Radio, so far.

Paper Doll

 Radio 4 Thirty Minute Theatre
 

Detention

 Radio 4 Afternoon Play
 

The Island of Doctor Moreau

 Radio 4 The Monday Play
from the novel by H.G. Wells

Kingdom of Crows and Carrion

 Radio 3 The Sunday Play
from “The Mabinogion”

Walker in the Night

 Radio 3 The Sunday Play
from “Beowulf”

The Daughter of the Sea

Radio 4 Afternoon Theatre
 

The Otherworld Child

Radio 4 Afternoon Theatre
 

Over Sea, Under Stone

 Radio 4 Children’s Serial
from the novel by Susan Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

Radio 4 The Classic Serial
from the novel by Fennimore Cooper

Noman

 Radio 3 The Sunday Play
from “The Odyssey”

The Dark Is Rising

Radio 4 Children’s Serial
from the novel by Susan Cooper

The Bull Beneath the Earth

Radio 4 Afternoon Play
 

Fahrenheit 451

 Radio 4 The Saturday Play
from the novel by Ray Bradbury

The Last of England

Radio 4 Afternoon Play
 

Laocoon

 Radio 4 Afternoon Play
 

The Return of the Native

Radio 4 The Classic Serial
from the novel by Thomas Hardy

The Psychology of Dangerous Roads

 Radio 4 Afternoon Play
from a story by Gul Davis

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