INTERNATIONAL RADIO CREDITS


Murder Repeats Itself.  A feature length drama which BBC Radio 4 commissioned me to adapt into English from Didier Daeninckx’s French novel Meurtres pour mémoire.  Murder Repeats Itself  first aired on November 10, 2001, and then was subsequently sold-on for subsequent airing by BBC World.


Offside in Bohemia.  My second commission from BBC Radio 4 to adapt a French novel, Didier Daeninckx’s Un Chateau en Bohême, into and English radio drama.  Offside in Bohemia first aired in  November 2002.


The Torch Be Yours. A fifty-minute radio drama commissioned by CBC (Toronto), for the Sunday Showcase Series, and was also broadcast by Monday Night Playhouse. The Torch Be Yours first aired on November 11th 2001.  Repeats have since been bought by CBC.


In 2002, BBC Radio 4 also commissioned me to write a ten-part adaptation of Chris Bohjalian’s Midwives for their Woman’s Hour drama slot, which was initially scheduled to air in February-March of 2003.  However the project later had to be abandoned when the adaptation rights to the novel could not be acquired by the BBC.

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN RADIO GA-GA


I’ll never forget my first radio.  I was eleven, and one of my uncles gave me a transistor with a single earpiece, and a flashlight, so I could read under the covers after lights out without getting caught.  Of course, now I realise how sneaky he was, and that they were all probably downstairs laughing about how I had suddenly taken so willingly to going to bed on time, but then it felt like Freedom was finally mine.


My second radio was even better.  I inherited it when my mother was given a Sony Cube, and so gave me her old kitchen radio.  It was amazingly grown-up, and even had a plug so I was not hostage to the vagaries of batteries running out during my favourite song (Bohemian Rhapsody had just hit the charts, making uninterrupted reception even more crucial).  My mother’s old radio looked not unlike the one you see here, which is my current, beloved kitchen radio,  permanently tuned to Radio 4.


Here are a few  programmes I hate, hate, hate to miss.


Today, the World at One, and PM   I’m a news junkie and so the rhythm of my days is dictated by when I need to be near my trusty Tivoli.


Open BookMariella Frostrup’s fantastic books programme on a Sunday/Thursday.  If you haven’t found it for yourself yet, oh what a treat!


The Archers   I know…but I just can’t help myself.  And now with Podcasting, I save it up for weeks and gorge myself on trains or while batch-cooking for the freezer.


The NOW show  Wow.  Just wow.


Any Questions What Saturday Afternoons were made for


Any Answers  Or as my husband calls it, A Nutter Rings Up…