Nick Warburton (TV, Radio & Stage)

Nick Warburton has written novels and scripts for stage, television and radio.

Seven of his novels for children and young adults have been published, as have shorter books for younger readers. The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books in English (edited by Victor Watson) said, “Warburton is an unusually versatile writer and has written a number of distinguished works for older readers.” He was chosen as one of two “new writers with uncertain reputations [who] have in a few dazzling years established their stature as major authors.”

He has published short stories and stage plays. Some of these plays have also appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe.

He has run courses on creative writing up and down the country, in West Africa for the British Council and, most recently, in the Middle East for the World Service. He is on the Broadcasting Committee of the Society of Authors and was on the judging panel for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain children's book award in 1994 and 1995. He is a Visiting Fellow at University College Chichester.

Among more than forty radio plays are Conversations from the Engine Room (joint-winner of the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award in 1985), an adaptation of Tolstoy's Resurrection, A Grove of Straight Trees (short-listed for the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award in 1993), an adaptation of Moonfleet and A Soldier’s Debt. Most recent radio plays include Witness a 5-part adaptation of St Luke and On Mardle Fen a 4-part drama series for Radio Four.

Among his children's books are The Thirteenth Owl, To Trust a Soldier, Ackford's Monster, You’ve Been Noodled and Lost in Africa.
He has written many scripts for the BBC television series Doctors, Holby City, Born and Bred and EastEnders.

A stage adaptation of Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham toured East Anglia in 2002. In 2007 his play Touch Wood was performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, and an original two-hander, For Starters, was performed there in 2004. In 2005 he was nominated for an Arts Foundation Fellowship (for comedy writing) by Alan Ayckbourn. Two linked plays under the tile Smoking Gun were presented at The Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2008.

Winner of the 2005 Tinniswood Award for best radio play.

Nick was thrilled to be a guest interviewee on Test Match Special during their 50th Anniversary Celebrations this year.