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In Tennessee Williams we meet contradictory, faulty, self-destructive, or self-deluding characters, full of dreams and yearning. What a great cocktail…
I avoid like the plague fiction on any current project. I think that would be fatal, in that I might…
The creation of a temporary workstation is one of the few parts of the process that I tend to romanticise.…
To write at all, but especially for the screen, is to court rejection. The ratio of scripts commissioned, to scripts…
I have lots of ideas for stories and novels, with whole plots and casts of characters. But until I find…
The countryside is now the setting for my evolving relationship with my daughter as she grows. I watch her physically…
Business class flights out to Dubai, five-star hotel accommodation and three meals a day plus snacks… My God, I thought,…
We sat speechless in the echoing hall, each with our Princess Matic portable manual typewriter, a huge, orange plastic binder…
When I adapt a novel into an audio drama, I like to honour what the author has written. It’s a…
I’m secretly disappointed if the deadline is far off. If I sign a contract to deliver a book in two…
I was inspired to adapt a novel for radio because of a well-known cookery programme; a chef happened to be…
I make toast. I remember I finished a jar of marmalade yesterday and have forgotten to get more I come…
