Books
POLLY POLESTAR
Ginn, Steckt Vaughn
THE WRONG SIDE OF
THE BED Ginn
BUILDING THE TRIREME
( Appendix: The View from the Oarbench )
Constable
ARTHUR THE KING
BBC Books and Sterling USA a study of mediaeval romance in its literary,
historic and social context
GEORGE FRANCIS:
Trainer of Champions autobiography of the World Champion
boxing trainer ( Frank Bruno, John Conteh and others ) Mainstream
TOUR DE FRANCE:
the history, the legend, the riders ( 3 hardback, 2 paperback editions)
Mainstream
TOUR DE FRANCE:
TOUR DE SUFFRANCE by Albert Londres translated from the French. Cycle
Sport special edition book
INSIDE THE PELOTON
(2 hardback editions) Mainstream
Plays and stories for BBC radio 3 and 4
ELIAS HOWE
dramatic monologue about the inventor of the sewing machine
THIRTY STORIES,
MONOLOGUES and DUOLOGUES about composers
SNIPE 607
play for Fear on Four
EARTH TO EARTH dramatisation
of the short story by Robert Graves
VIVALDI two-part
dramatised biography of the Red Priest
THE WHISPER OF THE
AXE drama about the French Revolution
ARTHUR THE KING
cycle of seven plays
LA MOGADOR
Bizet and real-life archetype of Carmen
THE MARCH OF THE
TEN THOUSAND dramatised version of Xenophon’s
Anabasis
THE MISFORTUNE AT
SEAHAM drama about the colliery disaster of 1880
A BREATH OF FRESH
AIR drama: the life and death of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
GODSLOTS five
dramatic sketches about the Olympian gods and goddesses
SURVIVING WAGNER
dramatic monologues, with sound and music for three Wagnerian heroines.
ST CECILIA OF SICILIA
comic fantasy for virtuoso actor
WILF Morning
Story
CAT’S WHISKERS
six short comic confections for children
THE FIGARO LETTERS
imaginary correspondence for the principals in Mozart’s opera
Features
THE ATHENIAN TRIREME
recorded and compiled by me; I also rowed in the boat
DOGGETT’S COAT AND
BADGE about the oldest sporting race in continuous competition
REVOLUTIONARY PORTRAITS
five leading characters from the French Revolution, portraits compiled
and translated from contemporary documents
THE NIGHT STAIRS
for Between the Ears
TIMBUKTU: DROWNING
IN SAND
VEGETARIAN CYCLISTS
for the Food Programme
PAUSE FOR THOUGHT
some 60 scripts so far for Radio 2
BIKESONGS composers,
bicycles and cycles of music
Stage plays
THE SILVER NUTMEG
( musical, with Peter Thorne )
London
GRIMALDI
( music drama with Peter Thorne ) London
ONCE UPON A TIME...
( dramatic song sequence for narrator and singers, with Peter Thorne)
London
THE ANDRIA
by Terence ( co translator, with Sebastian Eden ) Norfolk
LYSISTRATA
by Aristophanes ( translated and adapted ) Deya, Mallorca
THE WEAKER SEX
Southampton
GESUALDO Norfolk,
Edinburgh, London, Melbourne
MR SHAKESPEARE...MR
LIEBOWITZ Deya
JAM
London, Edinburgh, Swindon
THE DOOR (
opera; also singer ) France
Upstage Productions
series of cabaret shows and theatre-based performances for a large commercial
company…motivation, instruction, entertainment. Writer, producer, director,
actor.
Film
CHAVASSE PARK – promotion
film for big architectural development in Liverpool
GHOSTS OF DEPTFORD
– six short films about celebrated denizens of the ancient London Borough
Journalism
Eastern Daily Press,
articles and principal reviewer - concerts, books, theatre 1985-7
Articles in: the
Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Times, Catholic Herald, World magazine,
Archaeology Today, The Countryman, Cycling Weekly, Ham and High, Cycle
Sport, BBC History magazine, The Scotsman, Daily Mail
Translator
French, Latin, Classical Greek