Fiction

 Three stories from Fraser’s Wrestling Angels collection have been recorded   by the BBC and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009. They will go out on three successive afternoons at 15.30 GMT, in the fifteen-minute ‘Afternoon Reading’ slot.

 Tuesday January 20 – Once I Was Dead  - read by James Fleet

 Wednesday January 21 – The Assassin’s Mother-in-Law – read by Noma         Dumezweni

 Thursday January 22 – The Jeweller’s Wife – read by Deborah Findlay

 Produced by Karen Rose at Sweet Talk Productions, the readings are directed by Marilyn Imrie.

 The recordings will also be available for seven days following broadcast, on BBC Radio’s ‘Listen Again’ platform.

 Theatre

 Casting Complete!

 A brand new stageplay, The Lifesavers goes into production in January 2009.

Brief synopsis: Plunging us into a frighteningly paranoid parallel world, the play explores what happens when a society pursues the goal of a perfect society to its logical conclusion. In an era of atrocity, the play asks simply, how should we live?

Previewing on the Tuesday 27 & Wednesday 28 January, the show will run from Thursday January 29 until Saturday February 21 at Theatre 503 in London.

www.theatre503.com

 The production then transfers to the Studio Theatre at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester February 24 – March 7.

www.mercurytheatre.co.uk

 Directed by Paul Robinson for Theatre 503 in association with the Mercury Theatre,  Colchester, the cast includes ; Keith Bartlett, Gina Isaac, Laurence Mitchell, Ed Hughes and Rupert Simonian.