Celia episode 4
Celia is feeling on top of the world, in love and having an affair with Simon. What’s the harm if Guy doesn’t know? CLICK HERE to find out more about Celia and watch further episodes
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Celia episode 5
Celia’s guilt over the affair drives her into OCD meltdown CLICK HERE to find out more about Celia and watch further episodes
Celia episode 6
Celia is packing a suitcase. Where is she going? CLICK HERE to find out more about Celia and watch further episodes
Celia episode 7
In this final episode of the series, Celia is back home recovering from her operation. Can things ever be the same again? CLICK HERE to find out more about Celia and watch further episodes
Fireside stories with Wendy Robertson
One compensation for a cold March day is to be warm inside, especially if that includes sitting in front of a warm fire in a cosy room whilst the wind howls outside. So it was, a few weeks ago, when I recorded extracts from Avril Joy’s novel The Orchid House and Wendy Robertson’s latest novel Writing […]
Reading Aloud
Over the past few years in audio production I’ve developed a set of quite unique skills for a writer. One of these is listening and an ear for rhythm, flow, and expression, which was put to good use this week when I was asked to judge the Northumberland WI ‘Reading Aloud’ competition. There were […]
Past event: Shepherd’s Dene Writers’ Retreat 1st March 2015
I always look forward to Shepherd’s Dene. As soon as you climb out of the car and walk up the drive to the birds and the wind singing in the trees, you can’t help but feel an inner calm. Approaching the Arts and Crafts house, which appears to have sprung up seemlessly from the garden, […]
PAST WORKSHOP: Willow Burn Creative New Year Workshop
Our latest event was a slight departure from the usual as we kickstarted 2015 with a Creative New Year Workshop. This was a collaboration between myself and graphic designer / illustrator Carrie Dennison of Press for Design and Dendryad Art, which was held in the fabulous Tom Cowie Centre at Willow Burn Hospice. This room […]
Fact finding and inspiration at Nissan
I am very pleased to report that photographer James Sebright and myself have begun working creatively on our project with the Oriental Museum and Nissan Motors UK. We’ve had a couple of fact finding tours around the mind blowingly huge Sunderland car plant in which we took over 3 hours to walk 3 miles and […]
Postcard from Northumberland
Just back from holiday – a week of long walks on vast empty beaches and on hills where we never saw anyone else all day. But then, that’s Northumberland for you. We had a cottage in Embleton which had neither phone nor wifi signal so this was definitely a good time to reconnect with my […]