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Scottish playwright
Robert Forrest is a Scottish three-time
Sony Award winning
[1]
dramatist (playwright) who has created many radio shows for
BBC Radio and a stage play 'Jason and the Argonauts' for children that toured internationally and on
Broadway . He has also adapted The Exorcist for BBC Radio 4 (Feb 2014).
History and personal life
Forrest lives in
Strathaven ,
South Lanarkshire ,
Scotland .
Radio adaptations
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, BBC Radio 4, February 2014
The Great Gatsby by
F. Scott Fitzgerald , BBC Radio 4, 6–13 May 2012
[2]
The Pillow Book by Robert Forrest, BBC Radio 4, 2009–2012
[3]
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler, BBC Radio 7, 28 February – 4 March 2011
Adam Bede by George Eliot, BBC Radio 7, 3–17 July 2010
The Honourable Schoolboy by
John le Carré , BBC Radio 4, 24 January – 7 February 2010
The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 13–27 June 2010
Smiley's People by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 11–25 April 2010
The Voyage of the Demeter, BBC Radio 4, 23 February 2008, 31 October 2009
[4]
Call for the Dead by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 23 May 2009
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, BBC Radio 7, 27–29 January 2009
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 5–19 July 2009
The Weir of Hermiston by
Robert Louis Stevenson , BBC Radio 7, 20 June 2009
Parade's End by Ford Mattox Ford, BBC Radio 4, 2003
[5]
The Case Book of
Sherlock Holmes , BBC Radio 4, 1996
[6]
The Strange Case of the Man in the Velvet Jacket by Robert Forrest, BBC Radio 3, 2011
[7]
Stage shows
References