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