OBLOMOV

My dramatisation of Goncharov's great comic novel starring Toby Jones is back on Radio4 Extra and available on Sounds.

SKETCHES BY BOZ

All ten of my Sketches by Boz dramatisations currently available again on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

The casts are fantastic and Sally Avens did a brilliant job.

I think this one is still my favourite - Love and Oysters

SCRIPTS PUBLISHED

Smith Scripts have just added two more of my scripts - MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING and the stage version of OBLOMOV.

More details here.

CELESTIAL TOYROOM

In the latest issue (508-9) a nice article by Matthew Peck about Classic Who Infinity which mentions the question and answer session I gave the group in April. And very good fun it was too.

GILBERT WITHOUT SULLIVAN

Gilbert Without Sullivan, my dramatisations of W.S,Gilbert's short stories, narrated by Jonathan Coy, are being repeated on BBCRadio 4. Episodes are available for four weeks. Ep One The Finger of Fate stars the wonderful combination of Stephen Moore and Alison Steadman.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076c0t

MORE FROM SMITH SCRIPTS

Just published online by Smith Scripts, the stage versions of my two pieces about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood - Double Jeopardy and Strangers on a Film. Plus the text of my ground-breaking comedy about love, lust and older gay men, Told Look Younger.

Details here.

PRAISE FOR THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE

Generous praise from award-winning writer and historian, Anton Gill:

I think THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE is brilliant. You manage to recreate a period style without being heavy handed about it at all, and the characters emerge fully 3D through a difficult technical process perfectly suited to your subject. I'd never dare try to do a novel in the form of diaries, memoirs etc but you're a master of it. Thank you!

And thank you, Anton.

SMITH SCRIPTS

The splendid Smith Scripts website has now published two of my stage plays: Tales the Countess Told and The Speculator, my adaptation of Balzac's only comedy. Details can found here.

BRIAN DESMOND HURST

Many years ago I worked with the legendary Irish film director Brian Desmond Hurst  on his memoirs. Plans are now well advanced to get these memoirs into print as part of a lavish new illustrated volume about Brian's films prepared by Brian's great nephew Allan Elser Smith and his daughter Caitlin. More as publication gets closer

CUTAWAY COMICS

First announcement of the first slate of Cutaway Comics including Paradise Found inspired by Paradise Towers.

There's also an article by Matt Charlton in the latest edition of Dr Who Magazine about the Cutaway launch with some comments from me.