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Among the various drama projects I'm working on is Mrs Gucci - a musical about another dysfunctional family business, co-written with Marcos D'Cruze. More at GuccitheMusical.com
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Romeo Trap is perhaps my favourite episode of the BBC1 undercover drama series, In Deep, which I devised and was broadcast for three seasons a decade ago. It recently has had a resurgence of interest, after the DVDs were released three years ago.
Romeo Trap was one of the first dramas (as far as
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After years of development, co-writer Marcos D'Cruze and myself are delighted to announce the launch of Mrs Gucci - a fact based musical about fashion, passion and death. Go to the development site to find out more.
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Apparently you can win a free copy of the second series of In Deep on TV spy: second prize is probably two copies
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Ten years after it was first broadcast, In Deep is out on DVD. I really should have mixed feelings about this. The first series was all over the place. As I explain below, the pilot episode which had got the show commissioned - Darkness on the Edge of Tow which was quite Wire-like in its exploration -
Lenny Henry returns as irreverent police chaplain Jake Thorne
Lenny Henry returns to BBC Radio 4 as irreverent police chaplain Jake Thorne in a new series of Peter Jukes's acclaimed drama Ba
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Here’s one of several other shows I’ve written for Radio, this time about social networking
Soul Motel, Broadcast BBC Radio 4, March 2008
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Some examples of my favourite medium - radio plays - which combine the spontaneity and directness of theatre with the flmic possibilities of edited, recorded sound.
Though I've done dozens of radio plays, they're not stored in Youtube, and therefore require my own webspace to host. There are many I
Displaying items by tag: 1980s
Writer's Block
My Love said my Muse was faithless
And her fair words, being but a sham
Would turn in time to bitter fruitlessness
Leaving me no better off than I am
My Love said my Muse would desert me
And now my fate has confirmed her fears
Far away my Love can weep
Clear, exonerating, righteous tears
But since her predictions have proved so just
I hope all her maybes also turn to must
1982
Lennon in Central Park
Looking down the barrel of Chapman's gun
Lennon was unaccountably struck
By a surge of happiness for this world
No two moments the same no two things
The hydrants outside the Plaza, pigeons
In Central Park, the magnificence
Lost, found or made, the way
Two guitars can sing together and alone.
Life. Beauty. Music. The tracks he had to cut.
Lennon was in love with all of it.
And then the bullet hit.
Peter Jukes 1988
Chaos
The following images are some slightly faded snaps from my year living in India in the early 80s
CHAOS
Now a windless haze suppresses
The accolade of the streets
Sacred cows graze in traffic
Battered buses, rickshaws, bikes
An elephant lit up with electric bulbs
A man balancing aluminium chairs on his head
In the fields the chorus of mud-frogs never cease
The ears are filled but not with noise
Peter Jukes India 1983