NEVILLE TELLER, MBE Writer Radio/Audio Dramatist/Abridger A contributor to BBC radio for many years, I have well over 250 abridgements for radio readings to my credit, 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. THIS YEAR: BBC Radio 4 My abridgement of "The House of Special Purpose" by John Boyne was the Book at Bedtime starting on 27 April. That of "The First Men in the Moon" by H G Wells will be broadcast later in the year. BBC Radio 2 broadcast my abridgements of "Oliver Twist" (started on 16 January), followed by "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" by Anita Loos, starting on 27 February. BBC Radio 7 4 Jan - "The Friend in the Corner", re-broadcast over six Sundays 2 Feb - 10-part abridgement of William Boyd's "Armadillo" 14 Feb - Dramatisation of Georgette Heyer's "Regency Buck" 17 March - 5-part abridgement of Dirk Bogarde's "Great Meadow". 24 March - 7-part "Bogarde on Film", drawn from his various memoirs. 30 March - Abridgement in 5 half-hour parts of Somerset Maugham's "Ashenden - Gentleman Spy". 2 April - 12-part abridgement of Bogarde's novel "Jericho". 12 April - Adaptation for radio of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy "The Norman Conquests". 27 April - Abridgement of 5 stories from William Boyd's "Fascination". 25 May - 5-part abridgement of "The Masquerader" by Katherine Thurston 19 June - Abridgement of 4 stories from "The Mind of Mr J G Reeder" by Edgar Wallace 21 June - Dramatisation of P D James's "A Certain Justice". 29 June - Start of 10-part abridgement of "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. 18 July - Start of 6-part "Maugham's Eye View": weekly dramatisations of stories by W Somerset Maugham, starring Dirk Bogarde as Maugham. A new abridgement of mine of "Bulldog Drummond" by Sapper (H C McNeile), in six half-hour episodes, will be broadcast later in the year. 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 broadcast on Public Radio Satellite Network throughout the States a production of my dramatisation of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" last autumn. 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." June 2009