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Anne Campbell

In 2008, Campbell was portrayed by Harriet Walter in 10 Days to War, a BBC television dramatisation of the events leading up to the Iraq war.

Arthur Bostrom

Bostrom appeared (alongside fellow 'Allo 'Allo! alumnus Sam Kelly) in the BBC radio dramatisation of The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek in November 2008, playing the part of Wendler.

Barbara Clegg

After writing for several radio and television serials, including for Crossroads and a radio dramatisation of The Chrysalids, Clegg was asked to submit ideas for the science fiction television series Doctor Who in 1981.

Ben Owen-Jones


In 2012 he played the part of a wounded soldier in the dramatisation of the story of Dr. Ludwig Guttmann written by Lucy Gannon.

Beverley Allitt

In 2005 the BBC made a dramatisation of the story, Angel of Death, in which Charlie Brooks played the role of Allitt.

Colm Ó Foghlú

More recently, he was Musical Director for Riverdance at the Gaiety Theatre and in 2006 wrote and directed a modernised dramatisation of the great Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cuailgne.

Dangerous Corner

Priestley had recently collaborated with Edward Knoblock on the dramatisation of The Good Companions and now wished "to prove that a man might produce long novels and yet be able to write effectively, using the strictest economy, for the stage."

Death in Ecstasy

A dramatisation by John Tidyman of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre in September 1969, with Peter Howell as Alleyn and Gary Watson as Nigel Bathgate.

Economy of Botswana

Tourism has been stimulated by the series of detective novels by Alexander McCall Smith and the American dramatisation that followed them.

Eyeries

Eyeries was the location for the shooting of the film The Purple Taxi (1977) starring Fred Astaire, Peter Ustinov, and Charlotte Rampling, and also the 1998 TV series Falling for a Dancer, a dramatisation of life and love in 1930s Ireland based on the novel by Deirdre Purcell.

Jeremy Isaacs

In 1990, Isaacs named a four-hour dramatisation of an early Percy Bysshe Shelley Gothic horror novel, Zastrozzi (1986), as one of the 10 programmes of which he was most proud during his tenure as Channel 4's chief executive.

Julie Wilson Nimmo

She played Katrine Trolle and other witnesses in a radio dramatisation of the court case HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan.

Michael Kitchen

Other noted appearances include Dandelion Dead (1994), A Royal Scandal (1996), The Last Contract (Sista Kontraktet,1998) a Swedish film about the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme, Paul Abbott's Alibi in 2003, Andrew Davies' dramatisation of Falling in 2005, ITV's three-part drama series Mobile (2007) and Channel 4's phone hacking comedy Hacks (2012).

Oblomov

In 1989 BBC TV made an English language dramatisation of the novel, with George Wendt in the title role.

Oxburgh Hall

It was the major setting for the 1994 television dramatisation of Love on a Branch Line, a novel by John Hadfield.

Restoration spectacular

The first, The State of Innocence (1677), was never staged, as his designated company, the King's, had neither the capital nor the machinery for it: a dramatisation of John Milton's Paradise Lost, it called for "rebellious angels wheeling in the air, and seeming transfixed with thunderbolts" over "a lake of brimstone or rolling fire".

Rhys Meredith

He is notable for his appearances on stage, radio and TV, which include Charles II: The Power & the Passion (television, 2003), Henry VIII (television, 2003), 'Peace? Off!' (episode of Robin Hood, 2006) and Flash for Freedom! (radio dramatisation, title role, 2002).

Rupert Gould

The actor Jeremy Irons played him in Longitude, a dramatisation of Dava Sobel's book Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, which recounted in part Gould's work in restoring the chronometers.

Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy

Tyne Tees Television produced a TV dramatisation of the story in 1982, The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

Souls Protest

The film is an epic dramatisation of the Ukishima Maru incident in which hundreds of Koreans were killed when the ship was sunk by a mysterious explosion, and supports the Korean view that the explosion was deliberately set off by the ship's Japanese crew.

St Peter's Church, Walpole St Peter

St Peter's was used as the parish church of the fictional village of Fenchurch St Paul in the 1973 television dramatisation of Dorothy L Sayer's novel The Nine Tailors, starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey.

Stella Richman

For Thames she oversaw Trevor Griffiths serial Bill Brand (1976) and for ATV, Clayhanger (1976), a 26 part dramatisation of the Arnold Bennett cycle of novels.

Stuart: A Life Backwards

A television dramatisation with the same name, starring Tom Hardy as Shorter and Benedict Cumberbatch as Masters was co-produced by the BBC and HBO in 2007.

The Sword in the Stone

The BBC broadcast a six-part radio dramatisation in 1939, with incidental music by Benjamin Britten.

Vulcana Women's Circus

The show was based on a dramatisation of a story by Uncle Herb Wharton, and was performed at the Brisbane Powerhouse by members of the Inala community, from children to elders, including established performance troupes from the community.

Yvonne Antrobus

She has made over 100 abridgments and dramatisations for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 and for independent audio publishers, including Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, The British Journalist by Andrew Marr and Days From A Different World by John Simpson.


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