List Of Writers

GRIFFITHS, DIANA

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Diana Griffiths is an established radio playwright who also writes for stage. Born in Neath, educated at Neath Grammar School, University of Sheffield and University College, Cardiff, she was for many years an English teacher in various comprehensive schools (Head of Department for 6 years). She has been creative writing tutor at Arvon,Ty Newydd, Yorkshire Arts schemes, the Ilkley Festival and to various schools, colleges and writing–groups in Yorkshire and in Wales. In April 2008 the four-part television drama Calon Gaeth which Diana co-wrote with Stan Barstow won a Welsh BAFTA for best drama. This was dramatised from the novel A Small Country by Sian James. She is a member of the Academi Members’ Committee.

Original Radio Plays 
Broadcast on BBC R4 (Saturday Night Theatre, Saturday Playhouse, Afternoon Theatre) and BBC World Service include: The King’s Hostage, Set to Rites, The Emperor’s Dream, The Hound of the Higginbottoms Second Fiddle, Out of School, Parents’ Evening, Quite the Contrary. 

Radio Dramatisations
Saturday Plays and Afternoon Theatres include: Flambards by KM Peyton, Satisfaction Guaranteed by Isaac Asimov, The Small Mine by Menna Gallie, A Many Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin, Whistle Down the Wind (from the novel by Mary Haley Bell & filmscript by, Waterhouse and Hall)

Classic Serials include: L’Assommoir by Emile Zola (in 3 episodes), Memento Mori by Muriel Spark (in 2 episodes), Germinal by Emile Zola (in 3 episodes)

Woman’s Hour serials include: Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert (in 10 episodes), The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby (in 10 episodes), A Raging Calm by Stan Barstow (in 10 episodes), Cheri by Colette (in 5 episodes)

Stage Plays
Who Pays the Piper?, The King’s Hostage.