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Radio Writing Archive
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Life, Car Crashes and Everything
Posted on October 9, 2011 | 4 CommentsLife in the Palmer Universe has been highly frenetic over the last month…I’ve been planning to do a lot more blogs but there just ain’t enough hours in the day.... -
Why to be a Writer
Posted on May 3, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the highlights of my Eastercon just past was taking part in a writers’ workshop run by an excellent group called the T Party. Hi guys! This was a... -
TX: The Art of Deception
Posted on December 21, 2010 | 2 CommentsEpisode 1 of my radio drama about art and lies, THE ART OF DECEPTION 2 was broadcast yesterday. And it continues every day this week – 10.45am and 7.45pm, in... -
Artists Who Are Murderers: Caravaggio
Posted on December 13, 2010 | No CommentsIt’s now seven days till the broadcast of Series 2 of THE ART OF DECEPTION, my drama about the world of art fraud and forgery. It tells the tale of... -
The Art of Deception 1: Available for Download
Posted on December 12, 2010 | No CommentsIn a mere EIGHT DAYS time Series 2 of my radio drama THE ART OF DECEPTION will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (20th – 24th December). A huge number... -
DC Beckett Steals the Show
Posted on November 10, 2010 | No CommentsOne last memory from the recording of The Art of Deception (see blogs below – this is series 2 of my radio drama about art fraud and art theft –... -
Getting Away with Murder, Mr Schofield
Posted on October 27, 2010 | No CommentsActor David Schofield is the co-star (with the superb Hattie Morahan) of my radio art fraud drama The Art of Deception 2, which is recording this week (last day tomorrow).... -
Devils and forgers
Posted on October 25, 2010 | No CommentsJust racing to complete a deadline – I’m working on the follow up book to Hell Ship. But I managed to take some time off last week to sneak off... -
Radio Drama: the new black?
Posted on July 26, 2010 | 2 CommentsGift, my current radio drama, has been getting some delightful responses from friends & acquaintances, and also from the powers than be at the BBC. It’s still available on iPlayer... -
TX: Gift
Posted on July 19, 2010 | 2 CommentsI recently wrote a radio drama about medical ethics. It’s called GIFT, and I’m pleased to say it’s being broadcast this week on BBC Radio 4, 2.15pm, Tuesday 20th July.... -
TX: Season of Migration to the North
Posted on January 16, 2010 | No CommentsOn Sunday 17th January (which is tomorrow, if you’re reading this today) at 8pm, Radio 3 are repeating my adaptation of Tayeb Salih’s marvellous novel Season of Migration to the... -
TX: The Art of Deception
Posted on June 21, 2009 | 6 CommentsYesterday I got a batch of CDs for the final version of THE ART OF DECEPTION…tomorrow it’s broadcast! I don’t think I’ve ever worked on such a tight deadline before.... -
More on the Art of Deception
Posted on June 17, 2009 | No CommentsJust picked up a Radio Times today, with details of the broadcast of The Art of Deception. It’s next week! This has been a wonderfully swift process – I got... -
On the Art of Deception
Posted on June 11, 2009 | No CommentsYesterday I listened to the CD version of my new radio drama, The Art of Deception… It’s not science fiction – it’s a straight thriller set in the world of... -
On Concept Sci-Fi
Posted on March 10, 2009 | No CommentsPhew! These last few months have been crazy busy, and I’ve been badly neglecting my blogging and my internet time-wasting. I’ve been keeping up to date with stories and news... -
On Rewrite Heaven
Posted on February 1, 2009 | 1 CommentI realise with chagrin and alarm that it’s been positively ages since I wrote my last blog…the period since Christmas has been a non-stop whirl. Apart from pursuing what I... -
TX: Season of Migration to the North
Posted on September 24, 2008 | No CommentsEarlier this year I travelled to the Sudan, and was caught up in passion and murder, and immersed in the rich culture of 1930s England and 1960s Africa, via the... -
TX: It Came From Outer Space
Posted on August 29, 2008 | 2 CommentsThis week has turned into something of a perfect storm for me – one of those freak moments when many events coincide to create a whole larger than the parts... -
On Beowulf, 3D
Posted on November 19, 2007 | 1 CommentMany years ago I studied Anglo Saxon as a module at University, and could actually read and speak a few snippets of that of that long dead, resonant, rhythmic, repetitive, blood-drenched-battle... -
Q & A
Posted on October 30, 2007 | 2 CommentsI recently did a Q & A for the Book Swede – great fun. If you fancy reading it, then click here.