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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: Poverty
A Poor Poet
You thought I was a poor poet
The first time that we met,
Upset to discover
The catastrophe of success
As soon as you walked in
You knew there was something wrong
Something has to give here
Someone
A poor poet has to lose it
Sell his soul for a song
Possessed and dispossessed
Before - to long
But what they never told you
Is you would pay the price
Abandoned so I could recover
My voice
For a poet is born
Of things that are not
From losses not from profits
And you were the cost.
You thought I was a poor poet
The first time that we met
Upset to discover
The catastrophe of success
You can't buy truth
You can't buy love
You can't buy this
But maybe you can earn it.
Abused and Disabused
Abused and disabused
Like Lazarus in his rags
Into your mind I come