Jim Eldridge (born November 1944) is an English radio, film and television screenwriter with hundreds of radio and TV scripts broadcast in the United Kingdom and across the world in a career spanning over 30 years.
Eldridge is the creator and writer of radio shows including ''
Shut UP
Shut may refer to:
*Yana Shut (born 1997), Belarusian snooker and pool player.
* ''Shut'' (1988 film), directed by Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai.
* ''Shut'' (2009 film), starring Lee Baxter.
* ''Shut'' or ''šwt'', "shadow", an Ancient Egyptian conce ...
'', ''
King Street Junior'', ''Coming Alive'', ''Crosswords'', ''
Albert and Me'', ''
Parsley Sidings'' and ''
The Demon Headmaster
''The Demon Headmaster'' is a series of books by Gillian Cross which were later adapted as a television series starring Terrence Hardiman in the title role and Frances Amey as Dinah.
The title character is a strange being with the powers of hy ...
''. On TV, he has created children's science fiction drama ''
Powers'', ''Time of My Life'' and ''
Uncle Jack'' and written for ''
The Ghost Hunter
A ghosthunter is a person who engages in ghost hunting, the process of investigating locations that are allegedly haunted.
Ghosthunter(s), Ghost Hunter(s) or Ghost Hunt may also refer to:
Literature
*''Ghosthunters'', a four-book series by Germa ...
'', ''
Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde
''Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde'' was a British children's television series which aired on BBC One (via Children's BBC and later CBBC) in the UK for 53 episodes between 1995 and 1998.
The programme was a comedy with its premise being loosely ba ...
'', and ''
Up the Elephant and Round the Castle'', in addition to other TV and radio series.
In 1971 he sold his first sitcom to the BBC and had his first book commissioned. Since then he has had more than 100 books published, which have sold over three million copies.
He lives in Kent with his wife.
Bibliography
;"Warpath" Series
*''Warpath 1: Tank Attack''
*''Warpath 2: Deadly Skies''
*''Warpath 3: Behind Enemy Lines''
*''Warpath 4: Depth Charge Danger''
*''Warpath 5: Last Convoy''
*''Warpath 6: Beach Assault''
*''Warpath 7: Night Bomber''
*''Warpath 8: Island Of Fear''
;"My Story" Series
*''My Story: The Trenches'' (2002)
*''My Story: Armada'' (2002)
*''My Story: Flying Ace'' (2003)
*''My Story: Spy Smuggler'' (2004)
*''My Story: Desert Danger'' (2005)
;"Museum mysteries"
*''Murder at the Fitzwilliam'' (2018)
*''Murder at the British Museum'' (2019)
*''Murder at the Ashmolean'' (2019)
*''Murder at the Manchester Museum'' (2020)
*''Murder at the Natural History Museum'' (2020)
*''Murder at Madame Tussauds'' (2021)
*''Murder at the National Gallery'' (2022)
;"Hotel mysteries"
*''Murder at the Ritz: The Stylish Wartime Whodunnit'' (2021)
*''Murder at the Savoy: The Sophisticated Wartime Whodunnit'' (2021)
*''Murder at Claridge's: The Elegant Wartime Whodunnit (2022)
Writing credits
Awards and nominations
References
External links
*
Jim Eldridge homepageJim Eldridge Interview
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British male screenwriters
English children's writers
1944 births
Living people
English male writers