Judith Adams : Playwright & Dramatist : Radio : Dramatisation

BUDDENBROOKS

Dramatisation in 3 episodes of Buddenbrooks, The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann

BBC Radio 4 CLASSIC SERIAL

Produced/directed by Chris Wallis, Autolycus Productions

Banned and burned by Hitler, Buddenbrooks is Nobel prize-winning Thomas Mann's first masterpiece, published when he was 25, in 1901.

Little known outside Germany (where it was dramatised for TV in 1979 and made into a 2008 romantic movie), it is a tender, witty, exquisitely detailed and ironically detached fiction emerging from his childhood in Lubeck. Mann's tone is, in fact, perfect for radio.

tbb April 2011

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OUT OF AFRICA

2010/11

Dramatisation of the novel by Karen Blixen

BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Serial

Produced/directed by Gaynor Macfarlane

MRS MABB

March 2008

45 minute dramatisation of a short story by Susanna Clarke

BBC Radio 4

pr. Elizabeth Allard

with Emma Fielding

Broadcast March 18th 2008, 2.15pm

"Mrs. Mabb was absolutely excellent. Everything I hoped for and more. Well done to Judith Adams for adapting the story and to Elizabeth Allard for producing. And thanks, of course, to the wonderful cast who brought the story to life.

9.5 out of 10. More, please!"

Friends of English Magic

FOEMS INTERVIEW

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MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot (reprise)

28th January 2008

BBC 7 RADIO

For the next four weeks - Mon-Fri 10am/9pm/2am

Dramatised by Judith Adams

Produced/directed by Gaynor Macfarlane

Cast: Robert Glenister, Caroline Martin, Tom Goodman-Hill, Candida Benson, Richard Dillane, Laura Doddington, Martin Hyder, Karl Johnson, Nick Fletcher, Sally Dexter, Roger Allam, Ron Cook, Rachel Atkins, Ekizabeth Garvie, Katherine Igoe, Matthew Marsh

Radio Times Pick of the Day

"this top-quality dramatisation" (Jane Anderson)

IN A BAMBOO GROVE

January 2008

RADIO TIMES Pick of the Week Spoken Word Choice

RADIO CHOICE: Observer, Independent on Sunday, Saturday Guardian, Times, Independent, Daily Telegraph

45 minute dramatisation based on a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1921). Afternoon Play (Watershed/BBC production) for Radio 4

Broadcast Wednesday 23rd January 2008, 2.15pm

Starring Derek Jacobi

pr. Chris Wallis

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ALMOST BLUE

February 2006

by Carlo Lucarelli

February 2006

Dramatisation of crime novel about synaesthesia.

prd. Lu Kemp

RADIO TIMES CHOICE

MIDDLEMARCH

April 2005

by George Eliot

April 2005

Dramatisation in 20 episodes.

RADIO TIMES CHOICE

"Thrilling ... Adams' dramatisation makes the characters so vivid ..." Sue Arnold in The Observer

prd. Gaynor MacFarlane.

THE MILL ON THE FLOSS

June 2003

by George Eliot

June 2003

Dramatisation in 15 episodes

prd. Gaynor Macfarlane

RADIO TIMES CHOICE: "this terrific dramatisation..."

Observer Guide Choice: "'Maggie's tragic story is vividly re-enacted in this Woman's Hour Drama co-starring Tom Goodman-Hill as Maggie's brother and Deborah Findlay as the author, George Eliot."

Independent on Sunday: "Maggie Tulliver rides again..."

Sunday Telegraph: "The dramatist, Judith Adams, clearly not intimidated by Eliot's doorstop-sized novel, brings out the author's energy and wit without excising the book's more leisurely pastoral descriptions"

Scotland on Sunday: "Radio 4's Woman's Hour drama this week is The Mill On The Floss, that classic story of a free-spirited lass battling against the strictures of Victorian society. Marvellous Maggie Tulliver is a passionate heroine for any time of the day, but a particular treat at 10.45 every weekday morning."

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY

May 2002

by Thornton Wilder

May 2002

Dramatised (heroically) in one episode.

cast: Sian Phillips, Robert Glenister, Jasmine Hyde, Tom Goodman-Hill, Annette Badland, Michael Feast and Helen McCrory.

prd. Gaynor Macfarlane

Nominated for Sony Award for Radio Drama, 2003

Radio Times Choice "Judith Adams and Gaynor Macfarlane: two of the safest pairs of hands in radio drama."

ROB ROY

January 2002

by Walter Scott

January 2002

Dramatised in 3 episodes

Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane

Cast includes: Sean Chapman, Liam Brennan, Tom George, Vicki Liddelle, Paul Young and Gareth Thomas.

Radio Times Choice: "Serials do not come more classic than this dramatisation by Judith Adams... the skilled hands of Adams brings the story vividly to life."

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