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1976
HITCH - Sunday night rehearsed reading at the
Royal
Court
Theatre
Upstairs. Concerns
the involuntary involvement of a lorry driver in the planting of a bomb.
With Jan Winters and Geoffrey Freshwater. Dir.
David Halliwell
1977
PILLION
- Bush
Theatre, later recorded by BBC
TV prod. Richard Eyre. Set in the
shed belonging to a motorcycle enthusiast at a crucial turning point in his
life. With Edward Peel, Billy
McColl, Caroline Embling and Lynne Miller. Dir.
Chris Parr
1979
VIADUCT
- Bush
Theatre. Encounters between a young textile
labourer, a newly married couple and a reclusive old man on scrubland beneath a
railway viaduct. With Anthony Milner, Annie Hully and Brian Hayes. Dir. Simon
Stokes
1980
TRAILER
- Stephen
Joseph Studio Theatre,
Scarborough
.
A glimpse of the claustrophobic problems of a young
office clerk, and his attempts at solving them.
Set around a small camping trailer in a filling station yard. With
Michael Simkins and Abigail McKern
. Dir. Robin
Herford
1981 TAPSTER
- Stephen
Joseph Theatre-in-the-Round,
Scarborough
- July '81;
Bush Theatre - Oct. '81. A study of a
Yorkshire
family seeking self-determination.
Set in a pub in the
Pennines
. With Gillian Bevan, Christine Kavanagh and Russell Dixon. Dir.
Robin Herford -
Scarborough. With Gabrielle Lloyd,Lesley Claire O'Niell, Dickon
Ashworth and David Quilter. Dir.
Baz Taylor - Bush
1984
FIRE-EATERS
- Tricycle
Theatre, Kilburn/Croydon Warehouse co-production.
Examines the friendships, rivalries and ambitions of
two photographic students and the women in their lives. With Amanda Pays,
Amanda Symonds, Tim Brierley and Iain Mitchell. Dir.
Pip Broughton.
1986 CALLING
- Stephen
Joseph Theatre-in-the-Round,
Scarborough
. Involving
the crisis in self-confidence of a young woman teacher in
Sheffield
, both in her job and in her marriage; and her subsequent
entanglements in a seaside amusement arcade.
With Serena Evans,
Stanley
Page, Edward Peel and Nigel Cooke. Dir.
Robin Herford.
1986 ON
MAY-DAY - Radio play. Radio
4 Sunday Play – TX Nov 23rd '86 and World
Service Play of the
Week during Jan '87.
Takes a present day tourist and a wartime Polish
exile through
Siberia
- comparing their experiences.
Ultimately involves the
Chernobyl
disaster. (Writer was traveling in the then
USSR
during April/May '86 - the time of the disaster.)
Repeated
Monday 29th April 1996
on
Radio 4, exactly ten years on. With Natasha Pyne, Christopher
Fairbank, Jan Winters and Bryan Pringle. Dir. Ned
Chaillet
1987
MAGELLAN
- Radio play - 20 minute episode for BBC
School Radio series "Explorers"
on Radio 5. Prod./Dir.
Derek Farmer
1989
CALLING
- Radio version of stage play. Radio
4 Saturday Night Theatre during March '89.
1990 SHAKESPEARE
IN AFRICA - 30 minute feature Radio
4 (TX
March 7th 1990) - Diary of events, with actuality,
including an attempted military coup, whirling dervishes and enthusiastic kids
from Hippo Valley High School; during a British Council tour of "Twelfth
Night" to Ethiopia, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Presenters - Natasha Pyne and Paul
Copley. Prod. Peter Fozzard.
1990
CLEAN
TEAM - 20 minute screenplay for British Rail corporate video
magazine programme
- Crown
TV production.
Presenter - Derek Griffiths. Prod.
Clive Halls
1991 PENELOPE'S PENDANT - 30 minute
dramatization of Douglas Hill's children's novel. Berwick Kalor as the goblin.
1992
SALLY'S
TREE - 60 minute radio play for children in two parts -
commissioned for
and
accepted by BBC
Radio 5 - later became a victim of the cuts thereto. Prod.
Peter Fozzard.
1993
TIPPERARY
SMITH - 60 minute radio play - BBC
Radio 4 - TX
March 24th 1994. The
adventures of a Bradford
woman in the
Far East. With
Natasha Pyne and Barbara Durkin. Prod./Dir.
Ned Chaillet. Commended
by European Broadcasting
Union
(Turin
- Sept. 1994)
1993 BARCLAYS BUSINESS BANKERS - 4 x 10 minute
screenplays for corporate training videos - dramatic reconstructions of
banker/customer encounters in various situations. Shot on location in SW London
by Barclays Video Unit.
1994 PLANNING SUCCESS FOR
YOU BUSINESS - 29 minute screenplay - corporate video for use by
Barclays Bank small-business clients (public distribution). Shot on location in
SW London, September '94 by Barclays Network Productions. Prod. Clive
Davis, Dir. Mike Vandy
1995 KING STREET JUNIOR
- "Mr. Chips" - episode 1 (30 min.) of popular comedy/drama
(series 8) for BBC Radio 4. First TX, 19th April 1995, repeated December.
Creator: Jim Eldridge. With
James Grout, Karl Howman & guest - Trevor Peacock. Prod./Dir.
John Fawcett Wilson
1996
KING
STREET JUNIOR - "A
Bridge to Afar" (guests - Ronald
Hines & John Hollis) and "Financial
Times" (guests - Tilly Vosburgh and Danny Webb) 2 x 30 min
episodes (3 & 7 for series 9). BBC
Radio 4. Creator: Jim Eldridge.
Prod./Dir.
John Fawcett Wilson
1996
WORDS
ALIVE! - "Bonfire
Night" "The Green Banana Hunt" "The Lighthouse Keepers
Lunch" "Ice Creams for Rosie" and "Come
to the Party" - 5 x 15 min programmes for 7 to 9 year-olds
exploring language and vocabulary with 'food' as a theme and including stories
and poems by other writers. BBC
School Radio latest
TX September 2002 (3 progs.)
With Paul Copley and
David Holt. Prod.
Andrew Barnes
1996
WORDS
ALIVE! - "Jen and Slippers" "The Bed and Breakfast
House" "Moving" "Don't Forget to Write" and
"The Village of Round and Square Houses" - 5 x 15 min progs.
for 7 to 9 year olds exploring personal writing - diaries, logbooks, letters,
poems and stories. Serial - featuring Jen, her cat Slippers and a talking
computer. BBC
Education – Radio latest TX Jan/Feb 2003.
With Carla Prosser,
David Holt, Dona Croll and Natasha Pyne. Prod.
Andrew Barnes
1997
WORDS
ALIVE! - Storywriting 3 x 15 min progs. "Beginnings",
"Middles" & "Ends"
exploring the mechanics of storywriting and elements of grammar for 7
to 9 yr olds.
BBC
Education - Radio.
With Paul Copley, David
Holt and Annette Badland. Prod.
Andrew Barnes
1997
WORDS
ALIVE! - Writing
'Instructions' 2 x 15 min progs. "The
list is lost" & "Wallace
Wordsworth is lost for words" exploring the nature and functions
of instructions with practical illustrations and child participation (tasks) for
7 to 9 yr olds.
BBC
Education – Radio latest
TX Feb 2003.
With Paul Copley, David
Holt. Prod. Andrew
Barnes
1998
ODYSSEUS
AND THE CYCLOPS (published
Sept. ' 98) play retelling the story with
six characters. “Literacy
World – Stage 3 Plays” Heinemann.
Primary Editor – Mary Mackill
1998
KING STREET JUNIOR - "Target Practice" 1 x
30 min. ep. (Ep. 4 for series 10) transmitted Oct. '98 (this ep. TX 19th October
'98, repeated April '99) BBC
Radio 4.
Created
by Jim Eldridge.
Producer
John Fawcett Wilson
1998
WORDS
ALIVE! – 3 x 15 min progs. “Benny
the Buzz in a Tizz”,
“Benny in
a Giant
Jam” and “Benny
and the Beanstalk” exploring dialogue (recorded speech,
direct speech, and play script). BBC
Education – Radio.
With Paul Copley, David Holt,
Natasha Pyne, Gerard McDermott & Jilly Bond. Producer Andrew Barnes
1999
CHAUCER'S
'THE PARDONER'S TALE'
(published Feb. '99) play retelling the tale in rhyme with seven characters.
"Literacy
World - Stage 4 Plays"
Heinemann.
Primary Editor - Mary Mackill
2000
JENNIFER
JENKS AND HER EXCELLENT DAY OUT & LOKI
THE
MISCHIEF
MAKER (published April 2000) Brilliant
Publications "Fun with Plays"
for
7 - 11 year olds. Editor Irene Yates
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