Broadcasting

‘John’s story left me and my children spellbound and in tears’

– Stewart Lee writing about Don’t Need the Sunshine on Radio 4.

John has written for radio and for television, as well as his stage work. His first sitcom, After Hours, was co-written with Molly Naylor and shown on Sky One.

He also writes radio shows and plays, and is the writer of six Radio 4 half-hour comedy shows including John Peel’s Shed (2011), The Newsagent’s Window, Valentine’s Day (both 2013) and The New Blur Album (2014). You can listen to some of them online.

Valentine’s Day stars Suki Webster, Ann Beach and Isy Suttie, and is the story of a chef, Sean, who recounts his life by looking through his old Valentine’s Day cards. The New Blur Album was Radio 4’s “Comedy of the Week” and was a life story as told through the release of each new Blur album. In 2015, the shows The Kindness of Strangers and Don’t Need the Sunshine were broadcast.

In 2016, he contributed to the Radio 4 shows Short Cuts and Four Thought, and together with actress Laura Woodward he made The 1998 David Bowie fanclub picnic, broadcast on Future Radio in 2017. He has made two audio documentaries for the Wellcome Trust: Homesickness in the Modern Age and The worst sound in the world.