Mike Walker

Mike is one of the UK’s foremost radio dramatists and is also a feature writer and published author. His awards include the Drama Award (World Service) in 2001’s Sony Radio Awards for his original play Alpha, the 1991 Sony Award for Best Original Script and a Sony Silver Community Award for the drama, Oxford Road. As well as writing original plays, Mike has adapted numerous books for Radio 4, both contemporary and classic, including War and Peace, David Copperfield and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Recent commissions include Tumanbay for Radio 4, which he co-created with John Dryden, and The Tsar of All Russias.

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2019

The Mystery of Edwin Drood – BBC Radio 4
Commissioned to adapt Charles Dickens classic – 10 x 14 min episodes

Tumanbay (Series 4) – Goldhawk Essentials/ BBC Radio 4
4 episodes commissioned

Castle of the Hawk (Series 2) – BBC Radio 4
1 x 60 min episode commissioned

Stalingrad – BBC Radio 4
Commissioned to adapt Anthony Beavor’s epic book (with Jonathan Myerson)

2018

Tumanbay (Series 3) – Goldhawk Essentials/BBC Radio 4
4×44 scripts commissioned

Vive La Revolution (Charles de Gaulle) – Perfectly Normal Productions/Radio 4
1×57 Minute Play Commissioned

Castle of the Hawk – BBC Radio 4
3 x 60 Minute Drama about the Hapsburg Dynasty

2017
Home Front – BBC Radio 4
5 episodes commissioned

2016
Tumanbay (Series 2) – Goldhawk Essentials/BBC Radio 4
8×44 scripts commissioned

The Man Who Would Be King – BBC Radio 4
Classic serial adaptation commission

2015

Home Front – Radio 4
5 episodes of WW1 drama commissioned

The Tsars of all the Russias – BBC Radio 4
4 x 60 classic serial

Tumanbay – BBC Radio 4
10 x 45 minute series based on Turkish history commissioned

2014

Ebola – Perfectly Normal Productions/Radio 4
Original play commissioned

The Bombing of Al-Asquari Mosque – BBC World Service
Drama commissioned

2013

Being Human – BBC Radio 4
60 minute radio play

Mrs Pickwick – BBC Radio 4
Pilot for radio series

Barnaby Rudge – BBC Radio 4
Serial adaptation commissioned

The Stuarts (series 2) – BBC Radio 4
Commissioned

2012

The Edison Cylinders – Fiction Factory/BBC Radio 4
1 x 45 minute radio play

The Stuarts – BBC Radio 4
Saturday drama and classic serial

People Don’t Do Such Things – BBC Radio 4
Ruth Rendell adaptation

Top Kill – BBC Radio 4

2011

The Real George Orwell – BBC Radio 4
Afternoon Play commission

Beyond Borders – Perfectly Normal Productions/Radio 4
Original play commission

Burma – BBC Radio 4
Original play commission

The Product – BBC Radio 3
1 x 60 min script

Homage to Catalonia – BBC Radio 4
2 x 60 minute classic serial adaptation

Amours de Voyage – BBC Radio 4
1 x 45 minute adaptation from poem

The House of Leaves – Fiction Factory/Radio 4
1 hour adaptation script commissioned

Plantagenet 3 – BBC Radio 4
3 x 60 min scripts

2010

The Road Home – BBC Radio 4
1 x 60 min script for Saturday Radio Play

Life and Fate – BBC Radio 4
Episodes for Classic Serial, Woman’s Hour and Afternoon Play

Plantagenet 2 – BBC Radio 4
3 x 60 min scripts

A Tale of Two Cities – BBC Radio 4
5 x 45 min scripts

2009

Spitfire! – Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4
50 min radio play to commemorate anniversary of Battle of Britain

Scumdog Millionaire – BBC Radio 4
5 x 15min scripts commissioned

The Gun – Radio 4
60 min dramatisation for Saturday Play

No Highway – Radio 4
Classic Serial

Darger and the Detective – BBC Radio 4

2008

Forty Three, Fifty Nine, Yara – Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4

A Killing 2 – BBC Radio 4

On The Beach – BBC Radio 4

Plantagent – Radio 4
60 min dramatisation

Our Mutual Friend – Radio 4
20 x 15 minute dramatisation

The Man in Black – BBC Radio 7

Rendezvous with Rama – BBC Radio 4

Sunk – BBC Radio 4

It’s Better with Animals – Corporation for Independent Media
Commissioned to write adaptation of three short stories for BBC Radio 4

2007

Dickens Confidential – BBC Radio 4
4 scripts commissioned

Slaughterhouse 30,000 – Corporation for Independent Media/Radio 4
60 minute play commissioned

Forty-Three Fifty-Nine – Goldhawk Productions/Radio 4
Original 45 minute script commissioned (developed with John Dryden)

The M27 Project – BBC Radio Solent
Play commissioned

City Speaks – Radio 4
Short play commissioned for mixed media (radio/film) project

Drowning – Watershed/Radio 4
Original afternoon play commissioned and broadcast

Babel’s Tower – Radio 3
90 minute radio play

Five Days in July – BBC Radio 4

Dombey and Son – Radio 4
20 part adaptation commissioned and broadcast on Woman’s Hour

Veldt – Corporation for Independent Media/Radio 4
Adaptation commissioned

2006

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime – BBC Radio 4

Kipps – Fiction Factory/Radio 4
2 hour adaptation of H G Wells’ novel commissioned

2005

Hooligan Nights – Radio 3
Commissioned to write play

At Home with the Hensons – Radio 4
Original radio play commissioned in conjunction with Open University.

The Interactive Murder – BBC Radio Berkshire
60 minute drama commissioned

David Copperfield – BBC Radio 4
26 part Woman’s Hour serial broadcast

The Radetzky March – BBC Radio 3
2 hour adaptation commissioned

2004

Oxford Road – BBC Radio Berkshire
Drama – winner of Silver Community Award at 2005 Sony Awards.

Tide Race – BBC World Service
60 minute radio play commissioned

D Day Project – Radio 4
2 hour original play broadcast to mark D Day anniversary

Philomel Cottage (Agatha Christie) – BBC Radio 4

The Woman in Black – Fiction Factory/Radio 4
Adaptation of Susan Hill novel commissioned and broadcast

2003

The Dark House – Radio 4
Radio play and interactive drama (via www.bbc.co.uk) Winner of an Interactive BAFTA in 2004

The Case of the Perfect Maid (Agatha Christie) – BBC Radio 4

The Dressmaker’s Doll (Agatha Christie) – BBC Radio 4

The Gun Goes to Hollywood (Also known as: The Pride and Passion) – BBC Radio 4

Caesar – Radio 4
2 x 60 minute classic serial commissioned

They Say I Shot a Man and Killed Him – Radio 4

The Ipcress File – Radio 4
Commissioned to adapt Len Deighton novel

2002-2003

The Old Curiosity Shop – BBC- Woman’s Hour
26 episodes broadcast December 2002/January 2003

Winner of Talkies Drama Award for audio edition

2002

Waterloo Sunset (Also known as: Waterloo Bridge) – BBC Radio 4

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Radio 4

The Officers Ward – Fiction Factory/Radio 4

Paths of Glory – Radio 4

2001

Uncertainty – Radio 4
45 minute original play

Antonia – Radio 4

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream – Radio 4

Crossing the Water – Watershed Productions/Radio 4

Swan Song (Agatha Christie) – BBC Radio 4

Magnolia Blossom (Agatha Christie) – BBC Radio 4

2000

Alpha – BBC World Service
(Also broadcast on Radio 4 in 2001)

The Patrick Nicholls Story – Radio 4

Buried by Glass – BBC Radio 4

Omega – BBC World Service (for World Play season)
Worldplay Awards, 2002 Best script, best production

The League of Gentlemen – BBC Radio 4

The African Queen – BBC Radio 4
Classic Serial

The Singapore Grip – BBC Radio 4
Classic Seria

The Island of the Day Before Yesterday – Watershed Productions/BBC Radio 4

The Tunnel Under the World – BBC Radio 4

Neuromancer – World Service

1999

Three Divided by Two -Radio 4

J Edgar Hoover – BBC Radio 4
Series of dramatisations

Bound Feet and Western Dress – BBC Radio 4

William and Henry James – selected letters – BBC Radio 4

1000 Years of English – BBC Radio 4

Crime and Punishment – Radio 4

Nicholas Nickleby – BBC Radio 4’s Daily Serial (with Georgia Pritchett)
Winner of VLV award for best dramatic adaptation

1997

Silvertown – Radio 4

War and Peace – BBC Radio 4 (with Marcy Kahan)
10 x 60 minutes – Talkies Award best adaptation (audio)

1996 Last Orders – BBC Radio 4

White Jazz – BBC Radio 4 (part of American Noir Series)

1995

The Making of Napoleon – Radio 4

1994

Act or Die – Radio 4

The Sound of Fury – Radio 4

The Tin Drum – BBC Radio 4
Writers Guild Award best adaptation

The War at the End of the World – BBC Radio 4

1993

Orphans – Radio 4

The Lucan File – BBC Radio 4

1991

Something Happened – Radio 4

1989

Texas and the Poppy Fields – Radio 4

Different States – Radio 4
Society of Authors Awards for best script 1991/Sony Award for best play 1991

Other script Writing (including)

2003 D Day Project – BBC Radio 4 Commissioned to help develop special event to celebrate the 2004 anniversary

1998-2000 Westway – BBC World Service -One of lead writers

1998-1999 Under One Roof – BBC Radio 4 Daily Serial

1997 Script writer for Monday Afternoon Series

1995 Jonathan Swift – select and compile and original writing

Several dramas and documentaries for Radio 5.

Script Editing (including)

TV
The Roman Empire – Educational series for TV, which won the gold medal of the Royal Television Society; The Victorians

RADIO
Bleak House, The Handmaid’s Tale, A Suitable Boy

Prose

LONG WAY HOME – An account of the convict, Mary Bryant’s, escape in 18th century Australia, published by Wiley 2005

POWDERPUFF DERBY – An account of the American all female aviation race – published by Wiley 2003

AUSTRALIAS, A HISTORY to go with the 13-hour documentary series; three novels based on the television series CASUALTY; the novel TAKEOVER, now out in paperback.