Robert Hudson

Robert Hudson is an award-winning dramatist, novelist and comedy writer. He has co-written musicals about Russian propaganda, AI and Climate Change, and John Maynard Keynes for BBC Radio as well as a Wodehouse/Gershwin musical for Chichester Festival Theatre and three series of Radio 4 comedy about gay warhorses. His novels are about a liberal-utopian premier league football club and big game fishing in the North Sea.

Since 2009, he has run Tall Tales, a comedy night which originally existed as a place to air fun ideas with no other obvious outlet. Starting with Warhorses of Letters, it has sent many series to Radio 4.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Robert did a PhD on the British origins of segregation in South Africa. Among other teaching, he helped scientists who had joined the History and Philosophy of Science faculty and who lacked confidence in essay writing. He spent most of 2017 as artist-in-residence in a bee behaviour laboratory at Queen Mary, University of London and he has played over a thousand matches of hockey.

Robert Hudson is an award-winning dramatist, comedy writer and novelist. Working in these different fields, as well as in schools, universities, scientific laboratories and blue-chip companies, has taught him how pervasively people’s lives are affected by how they write. Pupils in his sessions will benefit from his long experience of guided group work and positive collaboration. Everything we write, from an essay to an email to a university application to a piece of stand-up, is written for a specific reason. Understanding why we are writing something, who we writing for, and how to do it clearly, are vital and transformative life skills. He loves it when pupils realise this.