John Fletcher is a prolific British playwright, noted for a diverse body of work. He has written extensively for radio, stage, and television. A Catholic convert. He lives in Somerset.[1]
Radio Plays[]
- Wandering in Eden (1974)
- The Tragedie of Charles, Lord Stourton (1979)
- The Trumpet Shall Sound (1979)
- The Mendip Demoniack (1980)
- Propellors (1980)
- Taptoe Through The Telephones (1981)
- The Mansion Of The Mighty (1982)
- Babylon Has Fallen (1984)
- Deep Six (1984)
- Suddenly (1985)
- Some Mother's Son (1987)
- The Glory of the Lord (1987)
- The Price of Gold (1987)
- Night Express (1989)
- Death and the Tango (1990)
- Russia (1991)
- The Legend of Robin Hood (1992)
- The Lyme Regis Food And Fertility Festival (1992)
- Hot Rubber (Death on the Motorway) (1992)
- The Apple Orchard (1993)
- The Green Hill - The Druid (1993)
- The Green Hill - The Detective (1993)
- Mildred Pierce (1993)
- Double Indemnity (1993)
- Night of the Hunter (1993)
- Contraband (1993)
- Dead Perfect (1994)
- Shoot Out at St. David's (1995)
- The House By the River (1996)
- The Tiger (1996)
- The Roof of the World (1996)
- Who Am I To You? (1997)
- The Lady of Shalott (1997)
- Deadline (1997)
- A Game of Three Halves (1997)
- Up Against It (1997)
- Waiting for the Earth to Move (1998)
- The Front Page (1998)
- A Shilling for Candles (1998)
- Abide With Me (1998)
- The Big Smoke (1999)
- Black Maria (2001)
- Be Ye Not Afraid (2001)
- Badgers in my Vest (2003)
- Ebola Attack (2004)
- The Sicilian Expedition (2005)
- The Great Chocolate Murders (2006)
- Baghdad Burning (2006)18.12.06
- How Not to Run a Foreign Policy (2007)
- No Name by Wilkie Collins (2007)
- The Shocking Tale of Margaret Seddon (2007)
- The McKinnon Extradition (2007)
- Tamburlaine - Shadow of God (2008)[2].
- The Way of All Women (2008)
- Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad (2011)
- Sea Change (2012)
- The Cruel Sea (2012)
Comments from John Fletcher[]
"My great claim to fame as a writer of radio drama is that I invented the character of Nigel Pargeter who recently (Christmas 2010) fell so tragically to his death from the barn roof in Ambridge. I am still introduced socially as the guy who used to write "The Archers." Even though it was 30 years ago. But I have touched the hem of immortality!"
My thoughts on radio drama were expressed in a Radio 3 50th Anniversary programme in 1996:
Third words. Creative writers and the Third Programme 2. Studio or stage: the radio play
Second of five programmes looking at the links between literature and the Third Programme in which a current writer of the genre in question listens to early examples and judges them in modern terms. Dramatist John Fletcher listens to some Third Programme radio plays to discover how writers managed to get to grips with the medium. His conclusions are not complimentary and for him the British theatrical establishment is to blame.
Recording available at British Library Sound Archive.
References[]
- ↑ Best Radio Plays of 1990. Methuen/BBC. London, 1991.
- ↑ http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/jfletcher.html Diversity Website
For those interested in my work I have a novel 'Wuhan' coming out on July the 22nd, 2021:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wuhan-John-Fletcher/dp/180024987X
John Fletcher
Interview with John Fletcher:
http://www.visualfields.co.uk/MP2John%20Fletcher.htm
The interview was filmed in my back garden only three weeks before the Glastonbury Festival, so the construction noise from the field next to me - where the huge fence was being built - makes the interviewer often inaudible, and explains some of my more irritated comments about my "neighbour." The noise does not seem to have been picked up on my mike, tho - pointing away from the festival.
The interview was not only about writing but also living in the country and working in a village.