Robert Forrest (dramatist)
Robert Forrest is a Scottish three-time Sony Award winning[1] dramatist (playwright) who has created many radio shows for BBC Radio and a stage play 'Jason and the Argonauts' for children that toured internationally and on Broadway. He has also adapted The Exorcist for BBC Radio 4 (Feb 2014).
History and personal life
Forrest lives in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Radio adaptations
- The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, BBC Radio 4, February 2014
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, BBC Radio 4, 6–13 May 2012[2]
- The Pillow Book by Robert Forrest, BBC Radio 4, 2009–2012 [3]
- Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler, BBC Radio 7, 28 February – 4 March 2011
- Adam Bede by George Eliot, BBC Radio 7, 3–17 July 2010
- The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 24 January – 7 February 2010
- The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 13–27 June 2010
- Smiley's People by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 11–25 April 2010
- Call for the Dead by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 23 May 2009
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, BBC Radio 7, 27–29 January 2009
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 5–19 July 2009
- The Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson, BBC Radio 7, 20 June 2009
- Parade's End by Ford Mattox Ford, BBC Radio 4, 2003[4]
- The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, BBC Radio 4, 1996[5]
- The Strange Case of the Man in the Velvet Jacket by Robert Forrest, BBC Radio 3, 2011[6]
Stage shows
- Lucia, Fifth Estate, Edinburgh, 1994 [7]
- Jason and the Argonauts, Broadway, 2009 [1][8][9]
- Poem in October, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 2009[10]
- Curse of the Demeter, Glasgow, 2010[11]
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References
- "BBC Radio 4 – Classic Serial, The Complete Smiley – The Karla Trilogy, Book 3: Smiley's People, Part 3". BBC.
- "BBC Radio 4 – Classic Serial, F Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby, Episode 1". BBC.
- http://www.radiodramareviews.com/id3.html
- Thorpe, A. (2003). "The best plays you've never seen". The Guardian.
- "The casebook of Sherlock Holmes". London: BBC Worldwide Ltd. 1996. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - "BBC Radio 3 – Drama on 3, The Strange Case of the Man in the Velvet Jacket". BBC.
- "THEATRE: Lucia Edinburgh". ProQuest 293497199.
- "Jason and the Argonaughts" (PDF). Humanities Outreach in Tennessee. 2010.
- Gelder, L.V. (2009). "By Zeus! A wild and woolly quest for superheroes". The New York Times.
- "Theatre Review: Poem In October". www.scotsman.com.
- ""Curse of the Demeter" – November 2010".
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