Julian Simpson is a British writer and director working in film, television and audio. He is best known for his radio plays for BBC Radio , most of which take place within his "Pleasant Green" universe with loose connections to each other, including The Lovecraft Investigations series, based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft .
17-571: Simpson's other works include writing and directing the 1999 film The Criminal , released when he was 23, and the 2013 audio play Kokomo ; he also wrote and/or directed for television, including episodes of 24 , Doctor Who , Hustle , The Inspector Lynley Mysteries , New Tricks , and Spooks . Some of his most frequent audio collaborators include actress Nicola Walker , featured in all of his Pleasant Green works, actress Phoebe Fox , and producer Karen Rose. Simpson began working on New Tricks Series 5 in 2008, directing two episodes of
34-454: A British film of the 1990s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a 1990s thriller film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tinniswood Award The Tinniswood Award is a British annual award for original radio drama. It is named in memory of Peter Tinniswood , who died in 2003, and was established by the Society of Authors and
51-575: A fourth series, based on " The Haunter of the Dark ", was released. Critical reception for The Lovecraft Investigations has been positive. The Verge called the first series "like Serial mixed with True Detective " and it also received praise from The Spectator . This five-part drama started airing on Radio 4 on 18 February 2022. The cast again includes Phoebe Fox, Nicola Walker , Jana Carpenter, and Tim McInnerny. The story centres upon attempts by Fox's character Clara Page to determine who and where
68-519: A police agent, Mark, who is left without any memories of his past but fears that he may actually be a brainwashed terrorist. As the story progresses he discovers that neither personality is genuine and that he's an undercover agent who habitually has his mind wiped and reprogrammed to assist the government in solving cases. The cast featured Mark Bazeley, Indira Varma , Nicola Walker , Mark Lewis Jones , Jimmy Akingbola , and Paul Panting. Bad Memories aired on BBC Radio 4 on 7 January 2011 and received
85-595: A spell book in a remote village, while the second has her exploring a secret door in a Scottish castle and taking on a new partner. The first episode aired on 5 April 2017 on BBC Radio 4 and the second and third episodes aired on the same channel on 25 and 26 April 2018, respectively. The cast for the series included Nicola Walker , Tim McInnerny, Jonathan Bailey , Steven Mackintosh, David Calder , Emma Fielding , Hugh Ross , Phoebe Fox , Jana Carpenter , David Holt , Tracy-Ann Oberman , and David Collings . The Lovecraft Investigations , also known as Mystery Machine ,
102-452: Is a drama series made up of three episodes: "Mythos," "Glamis," and "Albion". The series revolves around upon a secretive government agency that investigates supernatural and otherworldly threats, real or perceived, to the world. One of the people working for the agency is Marie Lairre, the ghost of a nun that used to haunt Borley Rectory . She reports to Johnson, the government agent from Fugue State . The first episode features her looking for
119-755: Is a podcast made up of four series, each of which is loosely based on stories by H. P. Lovecraft . The first series, based on the story " The Case of Charles Dexter Ward ", began airing in January 2019 on BBC Radio 4 and ran for ten episodes. The second series was based on the novella The Whisperer in Darkness and ran nine episodes with two bonus episodes/teases beginning in November 2019. The third series, based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth , ran for eight episodes with three bonus episodes in December 2020. In 2023,
136-406: Is made up of seven dramas, beginning with Fragments . Fragments was first aired on BBC Radio 4 on 31 August 2007 as part of its Friday Drama series. The play is set in the village of Pleasant Green, which has become increasingly gentrified and exclusive. John Grant ( John Carlisle ), a seventy-year-old retired Royal Marine, is found shot dead. Teenager Kelly Ryan does not deny that she committed
153-492: Is the titular Aldrich Kemp. In April 2023, the BBC broadcast a five-part sequel series, entitled Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? . The Criminal (1999 film) The Criminal is a 1999 British thriller film written and directed by Julian Simpson and starring Steven Mackintosh , Eddie Izzard and Natasha Little . After meeting a beautiful woman in a bar, a man's life is plunged into chaos. This article related to
170-737: The Writers' Guild of Great Britain ; it is sponsored by the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society . The prize is for original radio drama broadcast within the United Kingdom, and is open to stand-alone plays or first episodes of series or serials; entries are submitted by their producer. It is worth £3,000. With the establishment of the BBC Audio Drama Awards , the Tinniswood Award has been incorporated into
187-749: The Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama Award at the 2012 BBC Audio Drama Awards. The story involves the mysterious disappearance of the Blake family around 2004 and the discovery of their bodies in the modern day. Forensic tests show that they died in 1926 and were found with audio files. Attempts to retrieve the recordings reveal that the family and a visitor was spirited away by Mary Marston, a coma patient believed to have murdered her family. The cast featured Nicola Walker , Rupert Graves , Steven Mackintosh , Jana Carpenter , Anthony Calf , Imogen McCurdy, Oscar Richardson, Rohan Nijhawan, and Ted Powell. Fugue State
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#1732793753345204-407: The agent, as well as some of the medical workers trying to extract his memories, evolve to a new state of being. This story introduces the character of Johnson, who also appears in the series Mythos . Fugue State was shortlisted for and won the 2016 Tinniswood Award . The cast featured Nicola Walker , Steven Mackintosh, Tim McInnerny , Ferdinand Kingsley , Phoebe Fox , and Ben Crowe. Mythos
221-404: The ceremony. Any work submitted for the award must be an original piece for radio and may also include the first episode from an original series or serial first transmitted within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the year before the year of the award and scheduled for transmission to 31 October in the year of the award. The award for each year is presented in January of
238-415: The following year. 30-minute plays are eligible, provided that they are stand-alone and that characters and situations are original to the writer. Adaptations for radio of pieces originally written for other mediums are not eligible. The entry fee is £50. This award -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about radio broadcasting in the United Kingdom
255-595: The murder, though she gives sarcastic, mocking responses to police questions about her motive. Grant had placed listening devices throughout the village, and the story is told through snippets of the recordings he made, Kelly's police interviews and the detectives' conversations about their investigation. The cast featured John Carlisle, Lesley Sharp , Philip Glenister , Sarah Smart , Daniel Ryan , Sean Gallagher , Nicola Walker , and Will Keen . The Listener first aired on BBC Radio 4 on 8 January 2010 as part of its Friday Drama series. The story's plot centres upon
272-422: The show that year and going to write and direct one to three episodes each season until the show's cancelation in 2015. In 2012, during the production of Series 10 , Simpson took to Twitter to criticize actor Amanda Redman after Redman complained that the series' writing had become "bland." The Pleasant Green Universe is a series of loosely connected radio plays that focus upon strange occurrences. As of 2023, it
289-445: Was broadcast on 29 October 2015 on BBC Radio 4. The story starts with attempts to extract the memories of a government agent who had gone to Pleasant Green to investigate a new numbers station, only to end up in a fugue state . As the story progresses it is revealed that the station was an attempt by otherworldly beings to communicate, only for the communication to be too much for the human brain and consciousness to comprehend. Ultimately
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