| Screenplays for the Cinema |
| For Television |
| James Dean -The First American Teenager |
| Radio Drama |
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| John Lennon on the day he died. (Unimaginable) |
Radio Drama
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| Raymond Chandler, the subject of Lost Fortnight. | |
God Bless Our Love (2010)
Based on one of the several relationships in my novel, Love Out Of Season, the story concerns the honeymoon problems faced by a former priest and ex-nun.
I Saw Her Standing There (2008)
A short story commissioned by BBC Radio 4 as part of a series celebrating Liverpool’s year as the European Capital of Culture. An elderly widower gets in touch with a woman he saw for just one night in 1963.
Unimaginable (2005)
On the night of December 7, 1980, my children were excited.
The following morning I was going to New York to interview
John Lennon. Then at 4.30 a.m. the phone rang. Lennon
had been murdered. Broadcast in December 2005, this
is a play about the twenty four hours around the death
of the former Beatle and how it affected both me and
my family.
Tim Merryman’s Days of Clover (2003)
On the day Tim Merryman is forced into early retirement
his wife gets a promotion. A bitter-sweet four
part
comedy series about middle-age, based on a weekly
fictional column I wrote for The Times.
Lost Fortnight (1996)
In a rush to make an Alan Ladd movie before the star
is drafted into the US Army in 1944, Paramount Pictures
started shooting an unfinished screenplay by an on-the-wagon
Raymond Chandler. But as filming progresses soon Chandler
realises that he cannot finish the script…not
sober, anyway. Based on a memoir by John Houseman.
An Easy Game To Play (1984)
Age, class and differing expectations of life in a sad
little Liverpool love story.