Robin Brooks

Robin Brooks (born 1961, Leeds) is a British radio dramatist, some-time actor and author.[1]

Selected credits

Adaptations

• 2000 – The Art of Love, a comedy, emphasizing Ovid's role as lover, with Bill Nighy and Anne-Marie Duff[2]
• 2004 – Mort by Terry Pratchett
• 2006 – Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
• 2008 – An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
• 2008 – Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
• 2009 – Armadale by Wilkie Collins
• 2010 – I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• 2012 – Ulysses by James Joyce
• 2012 – Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
• 2013 – Eric by Terry Pratchett
• 2013 – "Jill" by Philip Larkin
• 2019 — One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn[3]

Plays

• 1998 – The Golden Triangle – a trilogy on the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, consisting of:
  • The Awakening Conscience (on William Holman Hunt and his model Annie Miller, taking its title from Hunt's painting of the same name)
  • The Order of Release (on John Everett Millais, John Ruskin and Effie Gray, named after Millais's painting of the same name)
  • Love Among The Ruins (on Edward Burne-Jones and Maria Zambaco, named after Burne-Jones's painting of the same name)
• 2003 – The Smallest Man in Christendom
• 2006 – Duce's Bonce[4][5]
• 2007 – A Warning to the Furious[6]
• 2018 – 4/4: Introduction and Allegro[7]
• 2018 – 4/4: Rondo Mysterioso[8]
• 2020 – Elizabeth and Essex[9]

References and notes

1. Robin Brooks - allegra
2. ROBIN BROOKS RADIO PLAYS
3. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
4. Radio: Pick of the day, Phil Daoust, The Guardian, 30 May 2006
5. Radio – Martin Hoyle, Financial Times, 30 May 2006
6. BBC – Afternoon Play – A Warning to the Furious
7. BBC – Afternoon Drama – 4/4: Introduction and Allegro
8. BBC – Afternoon Drama – 4/4: Rondo Mysterioso
9. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h6t9

External Sources

• Robin Brooks