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NEVILLE TELLER, MBE
Writer
Radio/Audio Dramatist/Abridger
A contributor to BBC radio for many years, my work includes well over 250 abridgements for radio readings, some 50 radio dramatisations (7 reissued as audiobooks in the BBC Radio Collection), and about 200 audiobook abridgements for a variety of publishers including BBC Audiobooks, Chrome Audio, CSA Word, Heavy Entertainment, Hodder Headline, Macmillan, Naxos, Penguin, Random House and Time-Warner.
I've also undertaken a wide range of other radio work including two series for BBC Radio 3 about world orchestras, while for BBC Radio 2 I've provided a number of music documentaries as well as devising and scripting my own quiz - The ABC Quiz - for six years.
In 2010:
On BBC Radio 4:
15 February - abridgement of "Moonlight in Odessa" by Janet Skeslien Charles (Book at Bedtime).
26 April - abridgement of "Defending the Guilty" by Alex McCann (Book of the Week)
16 May - dramatisation of "Now Voyager" by Olive Higgins Prouty (Classic Serial)
24 May - dramatisation of "The Private Patient" by P D James (10-part Woman's Hour serial) .
31 August - abridgement of "Foster" by Claire Keegan (Afternoon Reading)
Stories by Stacy Aumonier will be an Afternoon Reading later in the year.
On BBC Radio 7:
January to June: Seven abridgements; four dramatisations; one radio feature
7/8 July - 2-part feature "The Deserted Child" (starring Wendy Hiller)
17 July - weekly 6-part dramatisation of P D James's "Devices and Desires" starts
26 July - 6-part abridgement of "Bulldog Drummond" by Sapper.
29 July - 5-part abridgement of Dirk Bogarde's "Great Meadow".
31 July - dramatisation of P D James's "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman".
2 Aug - 12-part abridgement of Dirk Bogarde's novel: "Jericho".
2 Aug - 10-part dramatisation of P D James's "A Taste for Death".
5 Aug - 7-part "Bogarde on Film" - based on his diaries.
For younger children I've re-written a selection of traditional tales for "CBeebies on Radio7", while for older children my abridgements remain a continuing feature in the schedules of the "Big Toe Books" programme.
I am Guest Playwright for Shoestring Radio Theater, San Francisco (http://www.shoestring.org) which recently broadcast on Public Radio Satellite Network throughout the States a production of my dramatisation of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
I'm a past chairman of the Society of Authors' Broadcasting Committee, and of the Contributors' Committee of the Audiobook Publishing Association, and was made an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours, 2006 "for services to broadcasting and to drama."
July 2010
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