Writing

An interest in reading and writing is what links all of Midland Creative Projects’ work. We have been fortunate to be commissioned by BBC Radio to produce a number of plays and adaptations over the last ten years. More recently we have written for Interplay (Theatre Company, Leeds).

Current Creative Writing work includes (all undertaken by Jonathan Davidson)…

Adaptation of W.S. Graham’s poem, The Nightfishing, for BBC Radio 3, due for broadcast October 2010.

New collection of poetry for publication by Smith Doorstop Spring 2011.

Archive Creative Writing work includes (all undertaken by Jonathan Davidson)…

BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play, Miss Balcombe’s Orchard, broadcast on Monday 23rd August 2010.

Adaptation for the stage of Mary Webb’s novel Precious Bane, for Interplay (Theatre Company, Leeds), toured to over 100 venues nationally from Autumn 2008 to Spring 2009

BBC Radio Four Afternoon Play, Icarus Falling, broadcast July 2008 and repeated January 2009

BBC Radio Four Afternoon Play, The Making of the English Landscape, broadcast August 2007

BBC Radio Three, Friday Play, The Gunpowder Plot, broadcast November 2005

BBC Radio Four Afternoon Play, The Accident, broadcast 2004

BBC Radio Four Afternoon Play, Life Cycles, broadcast September 2003

BBC Radio Four Afternoon Play, CV5 – A Dance in a Surburban Ballroom, broadcast May 2001

BBC Radio Three, Mercian Hymns, radio adaptation of Geoffrey Hill’s iconic poem, broadcast 2000