Portfolio: Writing

I’ve written widely for TV and radio, mainly documentaries, in various roles including including script consultant, writer and edit-producer. I’ve also written features for the Press including the Guardian and the Independent. It all helps narrating, especially when tweaks to a VO script are needed during recording.

NUCLEAR SECRETS was a BBC drama doc series that combined documentary elements with drama scenes written for actors. WHEN TOBY MET JULIE was a piece for the Guardian on the goings-on at The Modern Review. THE DEATH OF ISABEL SCHWARZ is an investigative article for New Society that provoked a public inquiry into “Community Care”. FRAGMENTS OF MY MOTHER are poems based on my mother’s words to me during the last troubled six months of her life. TO MY BROTHER are poems I wrote to my late brother Nic after his early and unexpected death.

Nuclear Secrets – Vanunu and the Bomb

Set in the 1980s, this drama-documentary told the story of Mordecai Vanunu's expose of the Israeli nuclear programme, intercutting drama with eye-witness interviews. (Video Clip - BBC 2)

The Spy From Moscow

Set at the time of The Cuban Missile Crisis, this drama-documentary maximised the interplay between archive footage and drama reconstruction. (Video clip - BBC 2)

The Death of Isabel Schwarz

This is an extract from an investigative piece for New Society, published on 30 May 1986. Together with a radio programme for Capital Radio, it resulted in a public inquiry.

Fragments of My Mother

An unpublished personal piece about the reality of death and dementia as I witnessed it.

To My Brother

A selection of writings to my brother Nic, who died suddenly in 1991.