Plays for BBC:
A Home Truth (1995) -- shortlisted for scriptwriting prize at Prix Italia
with Geraldine James, Nick Le Provost
Thirty Minutes to Kill (1996) -- Haydn Gwynne, Michael Maloney
Ladies' Day (1997) -- Josie Lawrence, James Grout, John Rowe
Summoned by Shelves (1999) -- Sam West, Douglas Hodge, Rachel Atkins,
Cheryl Campbell, John Rowe
Place of the Invalids (2000) -- Haydn Gwynne, Michael Maloney
Beside the Seaside (2002) -- adaptation of short story, with Richard
Griffiths, Samantha Sprio, Will Keen
Comedy series:
Acropolis Now (2001) -- six-parts, with Robert Hardy as Socrates, Rosemary Leach as Oracle, Stephen Moore as Heraclitus, Alan Cox as Aristophanes, Tom George as Plato, Rachel Atkins as Xanthippe and Gavin Muir as the Chorus.
Acropolis Now (2002) second series-with Imelda Staunton replacing Rachel Atkins.
Drama series:
A Certain Age (2002) -- six half-hour monologues, with Siobhan Redmond, Janine Duvitski, Rebecca Front, Lesley Manville, Lindsay Coulson and Dawn French.
Full Circle (2003) -- six half-hour duologues, with Claire Skinner,
Phyllis Logan, Michael Maloney, Phil Davis and Sheila Hancock
Scripts for:
Books and Co (24 monologues for Gavin Muir about a struggling writer at a writers' group)
Dear Diary (30-minute presenting monologue for Tony Robinson), Tidal Talk from a Rock Pool (six monologues for Judi Dench, Alison Steadman, Greg Proops, Geoffrey Palmer, Bill Wallis and Tony Robinson-nominated for Sony Drama Award, 1997)
Out of Her Senses (five-part Christmas reading for Miriam Margolyes, 1998)
Other half-hour Natural History Unit monologues, for Jane Horrocks (a chicken), Geoffrey Palmer (a taxonomer), June Whitfield (a squirrel) and Tony Robinson (a fox).
Also many 15-minute stories, most recently:
Good Dog read by Caroline Quentin (2000)
Tracks read by Chris Langham (2001)
The Proceedings of that Night (to be broadcast 2003)
Radio appearances:
A View from Abroad -- 30-minute feature about golf (1999)
The Game's Up-three 15-minute talks (2001)
Look Both Ways (presenter) (2001)
The Indispensables (2002) -- (presenter) four half-hour features about important inventions.
Cutting a Dash(2002) -- (presenter) five 15-minute features about
punctuation
To Hell in a Handcart (2002) -- three 15-minute talks
Also:
Fourth Column (dozens), Front Row, Saturday Review, Quote...Unquote, The
Write Stuff, Wordly Wise, The News Quiz, Cross Question, Woman's Hour,
Late Tackle, Books and Co, Late Night Live, Fourth Column, Who Goes
There?, Excess Baggage, A Good Read
Journalism:
1986-1990 Literary Editor, The Listener
1990-1991 Columnist and reviewer for Independent on Sunday 1994-1997 Columnist for Woman's Journal (won magazine award, Columnist of the Year, 1996)
1991-1997 Television critic and Op Ed columnist for The Times 1996-2000 Sports columnist at The Times (shortlisted Sports Writer of the Year 1997)
Book reviewing for Sunday Times; film and theatre reviewing for Daily Mail
Good works:
judge on Asham Trust short story awards,
talks to creative writing groups,
judge of Whitbread First Novel;
regular Arvon Foundation courses;
writer in residence for Lewes Council, 2000
In prospect:
A film of Tennyson's Gift, screenplay by Julian Mitchell, production
company Deep Indigo, producer Nigel Stafford-Clark
short film based on story Tracks
Radio 4 commissions, 2003:
Second series of Indispensables
Five part feature on the alphabet
