Ken Whitmore worked as a journalist for 20 years before turning to fiction. He has won the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Plays of the Year, the Arnold Bennett Short Story Prize and the Times/Jonathan Cape Children’s Story Competition. His work is included in various school and university textbooks and literary anthologies.
Theatre
LA BOLSHIE VITA (Birmingham Rep) 1986
THE CAUCASIAN IN THE WOODPILE (King’s Head) 1978
THE FINAL TWIST
Written with Alfred Bradley
GOING UNDER
JUMP FOR YOUR LIFE (Arts Theatre, London)
JUMP! TRAVELLING HOPEFULLY (Scarborough)
THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Oldham Coliseum)
Radio
THE FINAL TWIST (BBC Radio 4) 1996
BRIGHTON ROCK (BBC Radio 4) 1994
Adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene
A ROOM IN BUDAPEST (BBC Radio 4) 1990
WINTER MUSIC (BBC Radio 4) 1989
THE COLD EMBRACE (BBC Radio 4) 1987
THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE (BBC Radio 4) 1986
Giles Cooper Award 1986
THE TOWN THAT HELPED ITSELF (BBC Radio 4) 1986
THE RED TELEPHONE BOX (BBC Radio 4) 1986
DITHERING HEIGHTS (BBC Radio 4) 1985
LA BOLSHIE VITA (BBC Radio 4) 1984
KILL OR CURE (TRAVELLING HOPEFULLY) (BBC Radio 4) 1983
THE GREAT TIMES CROSSWORD CONSPIRACY (BBC Radio 4) 1982
THE SPORT OF ANGELS (BBC Radio 4) 1981
A DECENT BRITISH MURDER (BBC Radio 4) 1980
ALWAYS IN LOVE WITH AMY (JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT) (BBC Radio 4) 1979
THE LACKEY’S DAUGHTER (BBC Radio 4) 1979
WATCH THE FOREST GROW (BBC Radio 4) 1978
PEN FRIENDS (BBC Radio 4) 1977
THE CAUCASIAN IN THE WOODPILE (BBC Radio 4) 1977
OUT FOR THE COUNT (BBC Radio 4) 1976
COLDER THAN OF LATE (BBC Radio 4) 1976
THE STORY OF A PENNY SUIT (BBC Radio 4) 1976
JUMP (BBC Radio 4) 1975
ONE OF OUR COMMUTERS IS MISSING (BBC Radio 4) 1975
HAYWIRE AT HUMBLEFORD FLAG (BBC Radio 4) 1974
GOING UNDER
Adapted from the novel by Lydia Chukovskaya
FAME IS THE SPUR
Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring Books
JUMP! (Eagle Books) 1982
OLIVER TRIMBLE AND THE JELLY HOUND
Winner of Times /Jonathan Cape Children’s Story competition 1973