THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER - 1977THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER - 1977
HUNTERS' MOON - 1978
THE BABYLON RUN - 1979
A trilogy of science fiction serials made for Independent Local Radio. Half-hour episodes. Produced by Tony Hawkins with technical supervision by Peter Baker."I had my first professional sale with The Last Rose of Summer. It was in six parts and although it was made on a shoestring, it was syndicated around most of the commercial stations in the UK. As well as spawning two sequels, it gave me my first break into print with a novelisation of the scripts from Corgi Books. This was later republished as Dying of Paradise by Sphere, who followed it with a novelisation of Hunters' Moon under the title The Ice Belt."
For further explanation, see the unpublished introduction and extract from The Babylon Run.
THE HUMANE SOLUTION - 1979
Saturday Night Theatre, BBC Radio 4. Ninety minutes. A contemporary thriller featuring a plane hijack at a fogbound airport. Produced by John Tydeman. "I'll always consider myself to have been blessed with the start I got in radio. Firstly for the tremendous amount of raw experience that I got re-inventing the wheel with a bunch of friends on the commercial side, and then for the solid professionalism I encountered at the BBC. Novice though I was, I found myself being treated with respect by the likes of John Tydeman, Bernard Krichefski and Richard Imison, and I did my best to repay their interest. The varied work I went on to do with Martin Jenkins was real wing-spreading stuff. Back then - and it's not so long ago - radio drama was the nearest thing Britain had to a National Writing School. Now I fear that role's been taken over by the soaps... much to the detriment of our entire culture."
AN ALTERNATIVE TO SUICIDE - 1979
Hi-Fi Theatre, BBC Radio 4. Ninety minutes. Science fiction drama. Produced by Martin Jenkins.
A RESISTANCE TO PRESSURE - 1980
Saturday Night Theatre, BBC Radio 4. Ninety minutes. Contemporary thriller. Produced by Gerry Jones.
CHIMERA - 1985
Saturday Night Theatre, BBC Radio 4. Ninety minutes. Adaptation of the novel. Produced by Martin Jenkins.
THE KINGSTON FILE - 1987
Saturday Night Theatre, BBC Radio 4. Ninety minutes. Later adapted for TV under its original title, Here Comes the Mirror Man. Produced by Martin Jenkins.
BY THE RIVER, FONTAINEBLEAU - 1988
Fear on Four, BBC Radio 4. Thirty minutes. From the short story. Produced by Martin Jenkins.
THE WONDERFUL VISIT - 1988
Afternoon Theatre, BBC Radio 4. Forty-five minutes. Adapted from the novel by H G Wells. Produced by Martin Jenkins.
THE HORN - 1989
Fear on Four, BBC Radio 4. Thirty minutes. From the short story. Produced by Martin Jenkins.
THE VISITORS' BOOK - 1992
The Daily Story. BBC Radio 4. Fifteen minutes. An abridged reading of the short story.
LIFE LINE - 1993
Fear on Four, BBC Radio 4. Thirty minutes. From the short story. Produced by Martin Jenkins.