Angela Olive Pearce ( 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story and radio drama writer . She is best known for her book The Bloody Chamber( 1979). In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
She adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank. Her radio and film scripts are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (later adapted to radio) and other works.
RADIO PLAYS[]
VAMPIRELLA (BBC, 1976)
COME UNTO THESE YELLOW SANDS. (BBC, 1979)
PUSS IN BOOTS .(BBC,1982)
THE COMPANY OF WOLVES.(BBC 1980)
A SELF-MADE MAN. (BBC 1984)
VAMPIRELLA - RTÉ remake ( RTÉ 1992)
THE KITCHEN CHILD (BBC 2006)
THE CHRISTCHURCH MURDER (BBC 2018)
AN EVENING WITH ANGELA CARTER, includes remakes of Vampirella and Come Unto These Yellow Sands (BBC 2018)