Cock of the Walk
Penny looked at me with that adoration that embarrassed me so much. “Darling Charlie, I love you. You are so…
Category: Work in Progress
Web Street – Soap on the Web
The nostalgic mood continues. Here are the first two episodes of a soap-opera / drama thing I started writing specifically…
Old Birds – Short Film Treatment
Betty, a woman of about 60, is browsing for books in the local branch library. A group of youngsters, led…
Creating a Text
Another one from the archives. This piece was first published on John Baker’s Blog What phases are involved in the…
You can never do enough editing, but . . .
It’s not often I write something reflective, believing that the work should speak for itself, but I’m going to indulge…
Boys from the Backfields
Who killed Betty Fish? In 1963 the world is rocking to the Beatles, and being rocked by the Cold War…
Midnight Comes
This is a script developed with TAPS with a view to getting it produced by ITV for the It’s My…
The Elchurch Series
I don’t know how this is going to turn out, but while Cheats and Liars is cooking I’m looking at…
I was (virtually) there
The mainstream media’s coverage of the student protests over tuition fee increases is completely silly. Their collaboration with the police…