Ulster TV's film critic and documentary maker Brian Henry Martin reviews Hurst on Film.

Smith Scripts have just published five of my popular dramatisations of Sketches by Boz. Details here.

Thursday 22nd April 21 has been an extraordinary day! It has seen the launch of two projects I'm associated with.

First off, the Kickstarter for the Paradise Towers comic book serial by Cutaway Comics, already getting a lot of enthusiastic support.

Here's the link

Secondly, Hurst on Film ...

Received my proof copy of the book and am delighted with how it looks. It's available on Amazon but please wait until we've sorted the mistakes out in the proof before ordering a copy.

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Another fantastic cover - this time from Martin Geraghty -

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First glimpse of the cover for the first issue of Paradise Found written by Sean Mason, illustrated by Silvano Beltrano and coloured by Andrew Orton. Inspired by my own Paradise Towers.

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A fabulous promo for our upcoming book on Brian Desmond Hurst. I worked on Brian's Memoirs with him in the 70s and am delighted they are now being published as part of this bumper tribute to his extraordinary life and career beautifully put together by Caitlin Smith.

Robert Shearman has kindly tweeted this comment on The World and His Wife:

"Strongly recommended. Surprising, engrossing, and enormous fun."

This message from Gareth Kavanagh at Cutaway Comics.

We have an exciting opportunity for an artist to work with us on the forthcoming PARADISE TOWERS comic. Genuinely open submission, paying gig naturally. This is your chance to dazzle us and have some fun bringing Stephen Wyatt's Towers to life...

News just in from the Brian Desmond Hurst Legacy Site:
AN IRISHMAN CHAINED TO THE TRUTH Brain Desmond Hurst
RTE's superb radio documentary tells the almost improbable story of Brian Desmond Hurst woven through a meeting between Allan Esler Smith (who looks after the Hurst Estate)...

Just out on Smith Scripts my monologue Ho! Ho! Ho! written for Bernard Cribbins about a disgruntled shopping centre Santa.

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

More details here.

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.

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 subj...