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LOUISA'S
Broadcast as part of the BBC Radio Four Weird Tales series. When a stranger walks into Louisa's cafe, the jukebox which has not played a record for years whirrs into action, the lights start flashing, and Louisa is thrown into a world where her past challenges life as she knows it. With Sara Poyzer, Paul Rider, Gerard McDermott. Produced in London by Jessica Brown. December 2010
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Katherine Dow-Blyton plays Kate in BBC Radio Four's Bollywood Jane. Photo: Keith Pattison.
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BOLLYWOOD JANE
This magical stage play is now a Radio Four Woman's Hour serial. Jane is uprooted by her feckless mother Kate and made to start a new life on Leicester's Belgrave Road. When she stumbles into a Bollywood cinema, Jane escapes into a world of sequins and saris. Produced in Birmingham by Kate Chapman, it features Joanna Froggatt and Katherine Dow-Blyton. March 2008.
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ONCE UPON A TIME
Written as part of the Writing the Century series, this is a coming-of-age drama set in 1979 and based on the diary of a gay teenager living in a Nottinghamshire mining town. Broadcast as a Woman's Hour series. Produced in London by Gemma Jenkins. April 2010.
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Katharine Rogers (Glad) and Kate Rawson (Mae). The Wills's Girls, 2002. Photo: Zuleika Henry.
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THE WILLS'S GIRLS
Adaptation of the 1950's tobacco industry stage play for Woman's Hour. The five-part serial featured Katharine Rogers, Louise Howells, Kate Rawson, Giles Fagan and Devon Black. Produced in Bristol by Sara Davis. December 2004.
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BE MY BABY
Ten years after its first production, this hit stage play becomes a powerful Afternoon Play drama-documentary for Radio Four. Set in a 1964 mother and baby home, the play is interwoven with interviews from adopted children who traced their birth mothers. Produced in Birmingham by Kate Chapman and Sara Conkey. February 2008.
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PARADISE PLACE
Drawing on Woman's Hour listeners' stories and thoughts on the theme of desire, Paradise Place is a series of five short linked plays set in a large shared house in Bristol. Landlady Ella rents out one flat to teacher Sarah and her teenage daughter Jaz, while Adrian lives in the attic flat rent-free in return for doing jobs around the house and garden. Produced in Bristol by Sara Davis. November 2010
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AMATEUR GIRL
One-woman drama written for a Woman's Hour series on the Minimum Wage. Follows the career of Julie, a nurse turned amateur porn star. Katharine Rogers plays Julie. Produced in Bristol by Sara Davis. December 2006.
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THE NINE DAYS QUEEN
Radio Four Afternoon Play charting the tumultuous rise and fall of Lady Jane Grey, who reigned as Queen of England for nine days in 1553 and paid with her life for the plotting of others. Cast includes Loo Brealey, Emma Stansfield and Helen Schlesinger. Radio Pick of the Day in The Guardian, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Observer. Produced in London by Luke Fresle. February 2009.
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LADIES DAY
Popular stage play adapted for radio and reset at the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Produced in Bristol as as an Afternoon Play by Sara Davis. June 2009.
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THE ROAD TO ABOLITION
Drama-documentary charting the slave trade abolition movement for BBC Radio Three. Produced in Bristol by Sara Davis. March 2007.
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HAVE YOUR CAKE
Amanda Whittington wrote episodes 3 and 4 of this BBC Radio Four series. February 2008.
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