About

Graham is currently working on an adaptation of The Ambassadors by Henry James for BBC Radio 4.

Graham's dramatisation of B.S. Johnson's famous experimental novel The Unfortunates , starring Martin Freeman, will be rebroadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday October 2nd. Described by the Daily Telegraph as 'a remarkable radio play, moving, tender, thought-provoking' it can be heard in its broadcast form for a week afterwards by clicking the link on the left of the page, and as a series of shufflable sections on the same page until January.

The novel, published in a box in twenty-seven separate sections intended to be shuffled and read in any order, is an attempt to mirror the random patterns of memory, and captures the shifting recollections of a sportswriter through the course of a day spent covering a football match in a city which he has visited before and which is full of associations with his past - including the death from cancer of one close friend, Tony.

Reviews of The Unfortunates:
‘Genius’ Mail on Sunday 17/10/10

‘An impressive Radio 3 Drama’ Times 16/10/10

‘a remarkable radio play; moving, tender, thought-provoking, reminiscent of Joyce’s Ulysses but easier to grasp...’ The download ‘a clever post-broadcast addition.’ Daily Telegraph, 20/10/10

**** Financial Times

**** Time Out

Reviews of some of Graham's other work;

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:, (by Laurence Sterne),
‘Graham White’s adaptation of this gloriously anarchic comedy classic is a triumph. I loved every minute of it’. ‘State-of-the-art radio drama’ Sue Arnold, Observer, 6/2/5, 13/2/5

‘A masterpiece of translation’, ‘wonderful’ Ruth Cowley, Daily Express, 06/02/05

‘Laurence Sterne’s rollicking comic novel...deftly adapted for radio by Graham White’ Stephanie Billen, Observer, 30/1/5

‘Graham White’s sparkling adaptation of Laurence Sterne’s comic novel’ Guardian 3/1/5

‘Great stuff’ Time Out 3/1/5

The Trial of the Angry Brigade, “A fascinating piece of work” Daily Mail, 9/8/02

“Graham White’s reconstruction of the trial is clear, dramatic, gripping…” Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph, 9/8/02

“Lively, atmospheric and fair-minded…It is striking how many of the ideas bandied about in 1972 at the Old Bailey – internment without trial, terrorism, asylum, police power, homelessness – are still in ferment a generation later”. Paul Donovan, Sunday Times, 4/8/02

“…Graham White’s gripping... account of the anarchist’s 1972 trial”. The Stage, August 20002.

“Painstaking reconstruction” The Sunday Telegraph, 11/8/02

The French Lieutenant’s Woman: (by John Fowles), 2006
‘has us ensnared from the opening scene’. ‘Graham White’s adaptation, produced by Peter Kavanagh, spins a mean yarn’ Financial Times 31/12//05

‘It helps to know that the author has given the script his blessing. Graham White’s dramatisation of John Fowles’ masterpiece passed that test...Period in setting, but modern in attitude, it examines the nature of romance and tragedy as it races towards its triple “ending”. Independent on Sunday, 01/01/06

A ‘major adaptation’ , ‘faithful to Fowles’ complex, ambiguous triple ending’ The Guardian, 31/12/05

‘John Hurt narrates brilliantly, steering the story through its strange, many-layered byways without losing any of the intrigue and mystery; Daily Mail, 24/12/05

Oswald in Russia:,
“Set in Cold War Russia, Graham White’s drama-documentary focuses on a strange episode in the life of Lee Harvey Oswald...The play is drawn from a variety of sources, including Oswald’s letters and diaries, and provides an illuminating insight into his mind and motivation.” Independent, 21/11/04

“This intriguing drama-documentary ocuses on his years in Russia, and uses his own letters and diaries to provide an insight into his state of mind” (four stars) The Times 21/11/04

‘An emotive snapshot’ Guardian, 21/11/04

Pick of the day Guardian/ Daily Mail/ Telegraph/ Times/ Time Out 21/11/04

Graham (BA London, MA, PhD Sussex) is Reader in Drama and Creative Practice. He has previously held Lectureships at the University of Reading and Kings College, University of London.

He is currently Director of ReWrite, the University's Centre for Research in Creative and Professional Writing.

Dramatic Writing:
He has written for stage, television and radio. Recent work includes a radio drama A Bit Of Explaining To Do broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 15th June as part of the BBC’s ‘Rapid Response’ initiative of material commissioned to a topical brief (the play deals with the fall out from one man’s unintended use of his wife’s expense account...). He adapted Franz Kafka's novel, America, or The Man Who Disappeared, for BBC Radio (May 2006) along withThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , by Laurence Sterne, (BBC Radio 4, Jan 2005) and The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (Jan 2006). His play Oswald in Russia, dealing with the moment when Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to defect to the U.S.S.R as a young man, was broadcast as part of the programming marking the 40th anniversary of the death of President John F Kennedy, and The Trial of the Angry Brigade, a reconstuction of the 1972 Old Bailey trial of the British version of the urban guerrilla movements of the period went out on Radio 4 in 2002, with Juliet Stevenson, Kenneth Cranham and Mark Strong in the cast.

Other work includes;
Before The Flood – BBC Radio 4, April 2002.

Killer Country, -Sudwestdeutscherundfunk (Germany), November 2001, BBC Radio 4 1997.

The Aerodrome , (adap from Rex Warner), BBC Radio 4, September 2001.

Ice Cream Afternoon , BBC Radio 4, March 2001.

The Boy's own Book of The Dead , BBC Radio 4, December 1999.

Deep In The Heart of Nowhere , BBC Radio 4 1998.

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (adap from Philip K Dick), BBC Radio 4, 1998.

Bleat, Finborough Theatre 1994, BBC Radio 1998.

He has also written scripts for BBC TV's 'Doctors' and Thames TV's 'The Bill'.