Mike Walker (radio dramatist)

Mike Walker is a radio dramatist and feature and documentary writer. His radio work includes both original plays and adaptations of novels, classical and modern. He has won Sony Radio Awards for his play Alpha (2001) and for his script for Different States (1991), and a Silver Community Award for Oxford Road on BBC Radio Berkshire, as well the British Writers' Guild award for best dramatisation for his 1996 adaptation of The Tin Drum by Günter Grass.^[1] He was also part of the writing team for BBC Radio 4's The Dark House, which won a BAFTA Interactive Award.

Works

His plays include:

• for BBC World Service - Alpha, Omega, Tide Race
• for BBC Radio 3 - Babel's Tower, Darger and the Detective
• for BBC Radio 4 - D Day Project, The Dark House, Uncertainty, The Patrick Nicholls Story, Buried By Glass, Three Divided By Two, Silvertown, The Making Of Napoleon, Act or Die, The Sound of Fury, Orphens, Something Happened, Texas and the Poppy Fields, Different States, Caesar! (a series of plays about the rulers of Rome [2003-2007]), Plantagenet (two series of plays about the kings of England [2010-2011]), The Gun Goes to Hollywood and Landfall.^[2]

His adaptations include: The Woman in Black, The IPCRESS File, The Old Curiosity Shop, The African Queen, The Veldt, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Neuromancer, Crime and Punishment, Nicholas Nickleby, War and Peace, The Tin Drum, On The Beach, Rendezvous with Rama, The Gun.

References

1. ^ "Music Details for Tuesday 4 February 1997". ABC Classic FM. ABC. 2007-02-15. http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?/classic/daily/stories/s630219.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-19. 
2. ^ "Saturday Play: Landfall". BBC Radio 4. BBC. 2011-03-19. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zhc3t. Retrieved 2011-10-15. 

External links

• Mike Walker at David Higham Associates
• Mike Walker's radio play listing at Diversity Website
• Mike Walker's radio play listing at RadioListings website
• BBC writer's page

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