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Songs My Mother Sung Me- Roses in December

A collage-piece created for ELFM as part of a programme on Memory - 'Roses in December' Exploring the maternal memory through interview, creative writing, creative non-fiction, and music. To hear the whole show, including work from other members of The Writing Squad, visit www.elfm.co.uk/listen-again/writ…oses-in-december/

Songs My Mother Sung Me- Roses in December
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Commissioned by Heads Together Productions. Heads Together Productions was awarded one of the Community Media Association commissions under the Modulate 2014 programme to create collaborative sound art linking three young writers with three sound artists/designers. Heads Together runs two internet-based community radio stations—East Leeds FM and Two Valleys Radio. As Le Tour is leaving from Leeds on Saturday 5th July and heads down one of the Two Valleys (the Holme Valley) on Sunday 6th—it seemed an obvious theme. (Please download attachment to see full script. Pitch below.) Listen to the piece in full: http://www.writingsquad.com/push/issues/issue-7/cycle-of-sound-take-the-wind/ “I can see the line...
Take the Wind (Cycle of Sound Commission)

Commissioned by Heads Together Productions. Heads Together Productions was awarded one of the Community Media Association commissions under the Modulate 2014 programme to create collaborative sound art linking three young writers with three sound artists/designers. Heads Together runs two internet-based community radio stations—East Leeds FM and Two Valleys Radio. As Le Tour is leaving from Leeds on Saturday 5th July and heads down one of the Two Valleys (the Holme Valley) on Sunday 6th—it seemed an obvious theme. (Please download attachment to see full script. Pitch below.) Listen to the piece in full: http://www.writingsquad.com/push/issues/issue-7/cycle-of-sound-take-the-wind/ “I can see the line in front of me and, suddenly, that familiar sensation is reinstated in my heart. I want to win. I have to win.” Behind the cyclist that holds the trophy are other cyclists – other professionals – other men who also began as boys with dreams of glory. But at some point in their professional career, they made choices – of necessity or by chance – which meant that they would never be winners. They are the domestiques – the men who ride in the wind for their winner, saving him up to 40% of his energy across a race like...
Take the Wind (Cycle of Sound Commission)

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The Only Reliable Witness - initial development week
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Treatment - first episode Learning to Breathe is a provoking portrayal of gender politics in the 1980's when the UK, caught up with high drama of riots, bombings and privatisation, was looking the other way. This ambitious, character-driven drama offers fresh insights into the personal politics of the 1980s and the issues which affected women on a very private level. Winter, 1981. Against the backdrop of Thatcher’s ironclad Britain, an unlikely group of women are brought together in a story of loyalty, friendship and survival. Meryl - feisty, independent and living on a shoestring - meets Anita, passive, devoted...
Holding the Baby - Screenplay

Treatment - first episode Learning to Breathe is a provoking portrayal of gender politics in the 1980's when the UK, caught up with high drama of riots, bombings and privatisation, was looking the other way. This ambitious, character-driven drama offers fresh insights into the personal politics of the 1980s and the issues which affected women on a very private level. Winter, 1981. Against the backdrop of Thatcher’s ironclad Britain, an unlikely group of women are brought together in a story of loyalty, friendship and survival. Meryl - feisty, independent and living on a shoestring - meets Anita, passive, devoted housewife, cushioned by her middle class lifestyle. Both pregnant, they meet at the new NHS antenatal classes. Jane, 'Queen of the Mother Hens', has also been dragged to the classes and leads the contingent of moneyed, conservative women who would otherwise never mix with anyone beyond their clique. In a poky classroom, amid breathing lessons and labour plans, a deeply divided society is revealed. The group's teacher Sandra, a ‘relic of the 60s’, is still pushing for women’s rights, yet men like Darren embody the suited business elite of the 80s, and women like Jane still exist to extol ‘housewifely’...
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Flash Fiction: inspired by Donald Barthelme's 'The School', a woman one day finds herself with a Gorilla as a constant companion. And she can't seem to shake him.
My Gorilla

Flash Fiction: inspired by Donald Barthelme's 'The School', a woman one day finds herself with a Gorilla as a constant companion. And she can't seem to shake him.

Fiction
Follow the link to my article on selfie culture and, in particular, the #nomakeupselfie phase in PUSH for The Writing Squad. http://www.writingsquad.com/push/issues/issue-4/yourself-at-arms-length/
'At Arm's Length Yourself' for Push

Follow the link to my article on selfie culture and, in particular, the #nomakeupselfie phase in PUSH for The Writing Squad. http://www.writingsquad.com/push/issues/issue-4/yourself-at-arms-length/

Non-Fiction
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Songs My Mother Sung Me- Roses in December

A collage-piece created for ELFM as part of a programme on Memory - 'Roses in December' Exploring the maternal memory through interview, creative writing, creative non-fiction, and music. To hear the whole show, including work from other members of The Writing Squad, visit www.elfm.co.uk/listen-again/writ…oses-in-december/

Radio
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For Context: Treatment Holding the Baby is a provoking portrayal of gender politics in the 1980's when the UK, caught up with high drama of riots, bombings and privatisation, was looking the other way. This ambitious, character-driven drama offers fresh insights into the personal politics of the 1980s and the issues which affected women on a very private level. Winter, 1981. Against the backdrop of Thatcher’s ironclad Britain, an unlikely group of women are brought together in a story of loyalty, friendship and survival. Meryl - feisty, independent and living on a shoestring - meets Anita, passive, devoted housewife...
Holding the Baby

For Context: Treatment Holding the Baby is a provoking portrayal of gender politics in the 1980's when the UK, caught up with high drama of riots, bombings and privatisation, was looking the other way. This ambitious, character-driven drama offers fresh insights into the personal politics of the 1980s and the issues which affected women on a very private level. Winter, 1981. Against the backdrop of Thatcher’s ironclad Britain, an unlikely group of women are brought together in a story of loyalty, friendship and survival. Meryl - feisty, independent and living on a shoestring - meets Anita, passive, devoted housewife, cushioned by her middle class lifestyle. Both pregnant, they meet at the new NHS antenatal classes. Jane, 'Queen of the Mother Hens', has also been dragged to the classes and leads the contingent of moneyed, conservative women who would otherwise never mix with anyone beyond their clique. In a poky classroom, amid breathing lessons and labour plans, a deeply divided society is revealed. The group's teacher Sandra, a ‘relic of the 60s’, is still pushing for women’s rights, yet men like Darren embody the suited business elite of the 80s, and women like Jane still exist to extol ‘housewifely’ virtues...
Big Picture - Writer - Materials
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PDF doc. of my screenplay 'Sleepwalking' - for the next round of the Short Film Fund.
Short Film Fund (Sleepwalking)

PDF doc. of my screenplay 'Sleepwalking' - for the next round of the Short Film Fund. 

Short Film Fund
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A review of the recent production of David Hare's 'The Judas Kiss' at the Duke of York Theatre, starring Rupert Everett.
The Judas Kiss - Review

A review of the recent production of David Hare's 'The Judas Kiss' at the Duke of York Theatre, starring Rupert Everett. 

The Gorilla, The Tortoise And Me
Barren Land

Image from Freshblood Theatre Society's (University of Warwick) production of Barren Land (Freshfest 2011).

Barren Land
Writer Profile & Bio

CV, Writer Profile, and Bio.
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Tequila Sunrise

Written and made by myself and two other students at the University of Warwick. This short won a competition judged by the animation duo 'The Brothers Mcleod'. Sam and Joe are no strangers to the drunken morning after, but this is a first even for them. Student film made November 2010 by students of Warwick University.

Tequila Sunrise (short film)
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A play which was written and directed in collaboration by Lucy Fostor and myself. Staged in the Warwick Arts Centre studio, as part of Warwick Students Arts Festival 2011.
If Only To Dream (play script)

A play which was written and directed in collaboration by Lucy Fostor and myself. Staged in the Warwick Arts Centre studio, as part of Warwick Students Arts Festival 2011. 

If Only To Dream
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