I know it’s a cliché, but the joy of Christmas seems, for a lot of [...]
I was going to post the second blog in the Tales From The Cop Shop series, but [...]
I was hoping my second novel EDGE OF CIVILISATION would be published in time for [...]
At the school I went to, which resembled a foreboding Victorian prison, at the age [...]
My last blog on the 12th December – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, I [...]
We got our first Christmas card this year, appropriately enough, on 1st December from friends David [...]
I was trying to think if there was ever a moment in my life when [...]
Two things happened last week that at first didn’t seem in any way connected – [...]
The other day I was watching a documentary about Arthur Miller, the American playwright. For [...]
Probably the question I’m asked the most is – “How do I become a writer?” [...]
Round about now, forty-five years ago, I was starting a summer season of plays at [...]
I reckon the biggest question on everybody’s mind at the moment is – “What happens [...]
Last week’s VE day celebrations didn’t quite go to plan in our house. The only [...]
This week I watched the 1968 film Up The Junction. The original book on which [...]
A few days ago we were meant to be disembarking from a cruise that would [...]
I started this blog, mainly because the company that handle our PR, Puzzle Communications, thought [...]
Imagine what it would have been like if this virus had hit 60 or 70 [...]
In my last blog I started off by mentioning the situation we find ourselves in [...]
At the moment it’s like we’re all in a bad sci-fi movie with no hero [...]
I do have jokes about viruses, but I’m not going to tell you any, ‘cos [...]
This week is the Fisheye Film Festival. Most of you won’t have heard of it [...]
I was trying to figure out the other day, about the changing world of theatre [...]
Okay – this is not earth-shattering news and it’s certainly not new news, but it [...]
If you’ve ever thought of getting involved in producing, then please come and see me. [...]
Producing a theatrical production is totally different to producing a film or a TV show, [...]
In 2009 we did a production in Edinburgh of Bloodbath The Musical. Now eleven years [...]
Last week I went back to Yorkshire. It was the funeral of Barbara Bird, the [...]
It seems fewer and fewer people are making New Year resolutions. All that business about [...]
Christmas used to be the time of year which, workwise, meant one thing – panto. [...]
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, [...]
I’ve had some terrific reviews for my novel Beck Le Street, which I’m both grateful [...]
I know I’m going to incur the wrath of many people with this blog. But [...]
It’s amazing, I can’t think of a time that I cared less about politics, except [...]
I loved listening to Ian McKellen the other day on Good Morning Britain. Deciding which [...]
Christmas is certainly on its way. The TV ads are flooding onto our screens, the [...]
Recently I watched a programme on Sky Arts called Discovering Gregory Peck. It’s part of [...]
I’m about a third of the way through a treatment. There’s no doubt about it, [...]
Okay – this my first ever blog. Why should I suddenly start writing a blog [...]
Anybody watching The Loudest Voice on Sky Atlantic with Russell Crow? It’s about the rise [...]
Equity – the actors union, demanded last week that bias against working class actors be [...]
I’m just in the process of starting work on a new commission. I am the [...]
I know why I like writing so much, I can create my own world, which [...]
