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]

References

1. "BBC Radio 4 – Classic Serial, The Complete Smiley – The Karla Trilogy, Book 3: Smiley's People, Part 3". BBC.
2. "BBC Radio 4 – Classic Serial, F Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby, Episode 1". BBC.
3. http://www.radiodramareviews.com/id3.html
4. Thorpe, A. (2003). "The best plays you've never seen". The Guardian.
5. "The casebook of Sherlock Holmes". London: BBC Worldwide Ltd. 1996. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
6. "BBC Radio 3 – Drama on 3, The Strange Case of the Man in the Velvet Jacket". BBC.
7. "THEATRE: Lucia Edinburgh". ProQuest 293497199.
8. "Jason and the Argonaughts" (PDF). Humanities Outreach in Tennessee. 2010.
9. Gelder, L.V. (2009). "By Zeus! A wild and woolly quest for superheroes". The New York Times.
10. "Theatre Review: Poem In October". www.scotsman.com.
11. ""Curse of the Demeter" – November 2010".