"All the words and action frame one still, quiet moment where
everything changes."
Anita Sullivan
Radio 4 drama. In the UK 30K people were infected with Hep C and/ or HIV from the late 1960s to early the 80’s, many of them haemophiliacs, and up to 140k family members and partners were affected. The Infected Blood Inquiry 2023 made the case for compensation. Only a small number have been paid. A second unfolding scandal. Red Gold follows one man waiting for his future to begin, carrying the weight of the past. Created with support from the infected blood communities. Broadcast/ BBC Sounds July 29th 2025. Read the blog here.
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​
​A book publication 2026. Behind a big NDA.​
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RECENT PROJECTS​
The Mosquito an irascible insect invades a COP conference and gives a hapless UK politician a fever dream of a different future
Freewheeler's The Other Library. Twenty stories of disability: multimedia installation touring to public libraries. Touring 2024-25
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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 24
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.