Mike Walker is a radio dramatist and feature and documentary writer. His radio work includes both original plays and adaptations of novels, classical and modern. He has won

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s for his play ''

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'' (2001) and for his script for ''Different States'' (1991), and a Silver Community Award for ''Oxford Road'' on BBC Radio Berkshire, as well the British Writers' Guild award for best dramatisation for his 1996 adaptation of ''

The Tin Drum ''The Tin Drum'' (german: Die Blechtrommel, ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's ' ('' Danzig Trilogy''). It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Bes ...

'' by

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Da ...

. He was also part of the writing team for

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's ''The Dark House'', which won a BAFTA Interactive Award. He won the 2012 ''Bronze

Sony Radio Academy Award The Radio Academy Awards, started in 1983, were the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. For most of their existence, they were run by ZAFER Associates, but in latter years were brought under the control of The Radio Academy ...

'' for ''Best Drama'' with ''

A Tale of Two Cities ''A Tale of Two Cities'' is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the ...

''.Sony Radio Academy Awards 2012 – Best Drama

Works

His plays include: *for

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– ''

'', ''

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'', ''Tide Race'' *for

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– ''Babel's Tower'', ''Darger and the Detective'' *for

– ''D Day Project'', ''The Dark House'', ''Uncertainty'', ''The Patrick Nicholls Story'', ''Buried By Glass'', ''Three Divided By Two'', ''Silvertown'', ''The Making of Napoleon'', ''Act or Die'', ''The Sound of Fury'', ''Orphans'', ''Something Happened'', ''Texas and the Poppy Fields'', ''Different States'', ''

Caesar! {{italic title ''Caesar!'' is a set of British radio plays set in ancient Rome and written by Mike Walker (radio dramatist), Mike Walker for the Classic Serial strand. The first series (premiered in 2003) was based on Suetonius's ''Lives of the Cae ...

'' (three series of plays about the rulers of Rome 003–2007, ''

Plantagenet The House of Plantagenet () was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France. The family held the English throne from 1154 (with the accession of Henry II at the end of the Anarchy) to 1485, when Richard III died in ...

'' (three series of plays about the Plantagenet kings of England

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, ''Spitfire!'',BBC – Saturday Drama – ''Spitfire!''
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Tsar
' (three series of plays about the rulers of Russia from Ivan IV to Vladimir Putin), ''The Gun Goes to Hollywood'', ''Landfall'' and ''The Stuarts'' (a series of plays about The

House of Stuart The House of Stuart, originally spelt Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain. The family name comes from the office of High Steward of Scotland, which had been held by the family progenitor Walter fi ...

, from

Mary, Queen of Scots Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scot ...

Charlotte Stuart Charlotte Stuart, styled Duchess of AlbanyShe was given the title in 1783 by her father, Charles Edward Stuart, who claimed to be able to grant Scottish peerages by virtue of being ''de jure'' King of Scots. Neither that claim, nor the title ...

013-2015. His adaptations include: * ''

War and Peace ''War and Peace'' (russian: Война и мир, translit=Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published ...

'' (BBC Radio 4

Classic Serial ''Classic Serial'' was a strand on BBC Radio 4, which broadcasts in series of one-hour dramas, "Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status." It is broadcast twice weekly, first from 3:00–4:00 pm on Sunday, then repeated from 9:00– ...

, 1997) * ''

Nicholas Nickleby ''Nicholas Nickleby'' or ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'' (or also ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the ...

'' (BBC Radio 4, 1999) * ''

'' (BBC Radio 4

, 2000) * ''

Crime and Punishment ''Crime and Punishment'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Преступление и наказание, Prestupléniye i nakazániye, prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. ...

'' (BBC Radio 4

, 2000) * '' The African Queen'' (BBC Radio 4, 2001) * ''

Neuromancer ''Neuromancer'' is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and ...

'' (

Drama, 2002) * ''

The Old Curiosity Shop ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' is one of two novels (the other being ''Barnaby Rudge'') which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial ''Master Humphrey's Clock'', from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York r ...

'' (BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama, 2002) * ''

Who Goes There? ''Who Goes There?'' is a 1938 science fiction horror novella by American author John W. Campbell, written under the pen name Don A. Stuart. Its story follows a group of people trapped in a scientific research outpost in Antarctica with shap ...

'' (BBC Radio 4, 2002) * '' I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream'' (BBC Radio 4, 2002) * ''

'' (BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama, 2002) * ''

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'' (russian: links=no, italics=yes, Один день Ивана Денисовича, Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha, ) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first p ...

'' (BBC Radio 4

, 2003) * ''

The Woman in Black ''The Woman in Black'' is a 1983 gothic horror novel by English writer Susan Hill. The plot concerns a mysterious spectre that haunts a small English town. A television film based on the story, also called '' The Woman in Black'', was produced ...

'' (BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play, 2004) * ''

The IPCRESS File ''The IPCRESS File'' is Len Deighton's first spy novel, published in 1962. The story involves Cold War brainwashing, includes scenes in Lebanon and on an atoll for a United States atomic weapon test, as well as information about Joe One, the ...

'' (BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play, 2004) * ''

David Copperfield ''David Copperfield'' Dickens invented over 14 variations of the title for this work, see is a novel in the bildungsroman genre by Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from inf ...

'' (BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama, 2005) * ''

Dombey and Son ''Dombey and Son'' is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. It follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the lack of a son to follow him in his footsteps; he initially rejects his daughter's love before eventual ...

'' (BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama, 2007) * '' The Veldt'' (BBC Radio 4

Afternoon Play ''Drama'' (formerly ''Afternoon Theatre'', ''Afternoon Drama,'' ''Afternoon Play'') is a BBC Radio 4 radio drama, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm. Generally each play is 45 minutes in duration and approximately 190 new plays are broadcast each ...

, 2007) * '' On The Beach'' (BBC Radio 4

, 2008) * ''

Rendezvous with Rama ''Rendezvous with Rama'' is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1973. Set in the 2130s, the story involves a cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar System. The story is told from the ...

'' (BBC Radio 4

, 2009) * '' The Gun'' (BBC Radio 4

, 2011) * '' Our Mutual Friend'', (BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama, 2010) * ''

'' (BBC Radio 4

, 2011) * ''

The Man Who Would Be King "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was first published in '' The Phantom Rickshaw and other E ...

'' (BBC Radio 4, 2018) * ''

The Mystery of Edwin Drood ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' is the final novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium ...

'' (BBC Radio 4, 2020) Notes:

References

External links

at David Higham Associates
Mike Walker's radio play listing at Diversity Website

BBC writer's page
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