"All the words and action frame one still, quiet moment where
everything changes."
Anita Sullivan
Radio 4 drama. A hapless energy minister dodges activists and lobbyists at a climate conference in Paris. An access-all-areas mosquito has an agenda of her own. The project was supported by OKRE (Wellcome Trust), and subject experts Omnia El Omrani MD (COP28 Health Envoy), and Andy Morse FRSA (Liverpool University).​ Broadcast/ BBC Sounds November 12th 2024, to coincide with COP29 Azerbaijan.
Peter Benchley is the author of Jaws, but he was also a marine conservationist and wrote a beautiful eco-warrior, coming-of age story. I read Girl of the Sea of Cortez when I was 10 and it's stayed with me across decades. Delighted to adapt it for BBC Radio 4. Produced by Afonica, broadcast / BBC Sounds December 8th 2024. Hear Benchley, and me talk about the book with John Yorke on Opening Lines.​
ROUND THE WORLD
IN 6O PLAYS
I'm an award-winning writer of radio and theatre plays, short-stories, podcasts and video screenplays. All of my 60+ scripts have been staged or broadcast. I'm also a digital storyteller, creating interactive narratives for VR and gamified worlds.
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Writing is exploration. Experience the world as an octopus, a bee, a fox hunter, a musician from Diego Garcia, a companion-robot or a 130 year old woman. Enter a carnivorous beach-hut, swim The English Channel or orbit Earth with Gagarin.
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My Radio 4 plays are often recorded on location, my theatre work site-specific. I like to work collaboratively, blending script, documentary and improvisation.
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I've given MA Creative Writing seminars and run courses at the Bishopsgate Institute.
p.s I love my job!
IN DEVELOPMENT​
Red Gold a Radio 4 drama about the infected blood scandal. Broadcast July 2025
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A book publication 2026. Behind a big NDA.​
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RECENT PROJECTS​
Freewheeler's The Other Library. Twenty stories of disability: multimedia installation touring to public libraries.
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SILOS a future-fiction serial where national-service hibernation is used to limit climate impact. A stasis lawyer can't let it rest. April 2024
Model Village. Proud to be write New Perspective's 50th year touring show. A model village rebels! November 2023
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End of Transmission. Award winning Audio drama, history of HIV told from the point of view of the virus. Multi award-winning. New Society of Authors video interview.
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A GRAY SPACE
I'm a core collaborator on a website and creative community inspired by Scottish novelist, playwright and artist Alasdair Gray.
It celebrates his work and ethos by encouraging creative contributions and collaborations, with the aim of making people and things better. An ongoing project with Alasdair's niece Kat Rolley, launched at the International Alasdair Gray Conference in June 2022. To view a trailer for one of our projects, press play >