Publications

Monographs

Greece on Screen: Greek Plays on British Television. Under contract with Oxford University Press. Expected 2023.
Greece on Air: Engagements with Ancient Greece on BBC Radio, 1920s-1960s. Oxford University Press, 2015. [Reviews: CJ-Online, 6.8.17; The Classical Review 67.1; Journal of Film, Radio & Television, 3.7.17; Times Literary Supplement, 22.4.16.]
Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with the Balliol Players. University of Exeter Press, 2011.

Edited volumes

Theatre Plays on British Television, co-editor with J. Wyver. Manchester University Press, 2022.
Harold Pinter on Film, Radio and Television, special issue of Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television (2020). Co-editor.
Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC, special issue of Media History 24.2 (2018). Guest co-editor, with A. Lodhi.
Ancient Greece on British Television, co-editor with F. Hobden. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays, co-editor with S. Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Translation, Performance and Reception of Greek Drama, 1900-1960: International Dialogues, special issue of Comparative Drama 44.4-45.1 (2011). Guest editor.
Aristophanes in Performance, 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs, co-editor with E. Hall. Oxford: Legenda, 2007.
Dionysus since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium, co-editor with E. Hall and F. Macintosh. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Journal articles

‘A Revival, a Reworking and an Original: The Harold Pinter Season on Theatre 625 (BBC2, 1967)’, with B. Smart, Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television (2022).
‘A Literary and Dramatic Education on Interwar Radio’, Media History 25.4 (2019).
‘Afterlives of BBC Radio Features’, Media History 24.2 (2018), 266-282.
‘Introduction: Radio Modernisms—Features, Cultures and the BBC’, with A. Lodhi, Media History 24.2 (2018), 159-165.
‘Higher Education and Public Engagement: Open University and BBC Drama Co-productions on BBC2 in the 1970s’, Journal of British Cinema and Television 14.3 (2017), 377-393.
‘Television History: Archives, Excavation and the Future. A Discussion’, a dossier compiled with B. Smart, Critical Studies in Television 11.1 (2016), 96-109.
‘The Spaces of Medieval Mystery Plays on British Television’, Shakespeare Bulletin 33.4 (2015), 569-593.
‘Sophoclean Television: Electra without Subtitles on ITV in 1962′, La Scene en Version Originale, ed. J. Vatain-Corfdir, 55-65. Paris: Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne, 2015.
‘Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, “a Play for Voices” on Radio, Stage and Television’, Critical Studies in Television 9.3 (2014), 77-88.
‘Space and Place in Joan Kemp-Welch’s Television Productions of Theatre Plays’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 34.3 (2014), 405-419.
‘Classics on TV: Greek Tragedy on the Small Screen’, Journal of Classics Teaching 26 (2012).
‘Greek Drama in the First Six Decades of the Twentieth Century: Tradition, Identity, Migration’, Comparative Drama 44.4-45.1 (2011), 371-384.
‘Greek Immigrants Playing Ancient Greeks at Chicago’s Hull-House: Whose Antiquity?’ (co-authored with R. Davis), Journal of American Drama and Theatre 23.2 (2011), 7-29.
‘Robert Bridges’ Masque Demeter and Oxford’s Persephones’, New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 5 (2010).
‘A Wartime Radio Odyssey: Edward Sackville-West and Benjamin Britten’s The Rescue (1943)’, The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media 8.2 (2010), 81-103. [Won the Board of the Comparative Drama Conference’s Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award 2010.]
‘Antigone and the “Theban Maidens” in Aberdeen, 1919’, The Review (University of Aberdeen) 62.2 (2009), 118-121.
‘Aeschylus’ Agamemnon on BBC Radio, 1946-1976’, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 12.2 (2006), 216-244.

Essays in books

‘Tragedy for Teens: Ancient Greek Tragedy on BBC and ITV Schools Television in the 1960s’, in F. Hobden and A. Wrigley (eds.), Ancient Greece on British Television, 84-108. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
‘Broadcasting Greece: An Introduction to Greek Antiquity on the Small Screen’, with F. Hobden, in F. Hobden and A. Wrigley (eds.), Ancient Greece on British Television, 1-23. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
‘Aeschylus’ Oresteia on British Television’, in R. F. Kennedy (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus, 430-454. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
‘The Anger of Achilles: A Prize-Winning “Epic for Radio” by Robert Graves’, in A. G. G. Gibson (ed.), Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition, 315-331. Oxford University Press, 2015.
‘Aristophanes at the BBC, 1940s-1960s’, in S. D. Olson (ed.), Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson, 849-870. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014.
‘Introduction. Louis MacNeice, Classical Antiquity and BBC Radio: From Wartime Propaganda to Radio Plays’, in A. Wrigley and S. Harrison (eds), Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays, 1-30. Oxford University Press, 2013.
‘Practising Classical Reception Studies “in the Round”: Mass Media Engagements with Antiquity and the “Democratic Turn” Towards the Audience’, in L. Hardwick and S. Harrison (eds), Classics in the Modern World: A ‘Democratic Turn’?, 351-364. Oxford University Press, 2013.
‘Louis MacNeice’s Radio Classics: “all so unimaginably different”?’, in D. Lowe and K. Shahabudin (eds.), Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture, 39-61. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
‘Aristophanes Revitalized! Music and Spectacle on the Academic Stage’, in E. Hall and A. Wrigley (eds.), Aristophanes in Performance, 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs, 136-154. Oxford: Legenda, 2007.
‘The Balliol Players at Holywell Manor’, in O. Murray (ed.), Holywell Manor: An Anecdotal History, 172-183. Oxford: Balliol College, 2007.
‘Stages of Imagination: Greek Plays on BBC Radio’, in C. Stray (ed.), Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain, 1800-2000, 57-73. London: Duckworth, 2007.

Other essays

2019 ‘A Slight Ache (1967)’ and ‘A Night Out (1967)’, two essays in the booklet accompanying the 5-DVD set Pinter at the BBC. London: BFI.
2019 ‘Pinter on Air’, Pinter at the Pinter (coffee-table book, published by the Jamie Lloyd Theatre Co.)
2018 ‘Radio Nation’, BBC History Magazine (March issue)
2012 ‘Classics on TV: Greek Tragedy on the Small Screen’, brochure essay and programme notes for the Screen Plays season of screenings which I curated at the BFI
2012 ‘Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television’, co-authored with J. Wyver, in Viewfinder: Moving Image and Sound, Knowledge and Access, March 2012.

Blog posts

‘The Lover (Associated-Rediffusion for ITV, 1963): “tough stuff, well acted and cleverly directed” ’ (30 May 2018)
‘ “Greek Tragedy on the small screen” is revived in Birmingham!’ (3 February 2015)
‘Once in a Lifetime (BBC-WNET, 1988)’ (28 January 2015)
‘Rocket to the Moon (Channel 4-PBS, 1986)’ (24 January 2015)
‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Granada for ITV, 1976)’ (12 January 2015)
‘Mrs Patterson (BBC, 1956)’ (2 December 2014)
‘Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood (BBC, 1957)’ (28 November 2014)
‘Classics on TV: Great American Playwrights, a BFI Southbank season’ (25 November 2014)
‘ “An outside broadcast from the last century”: the Gaslight Theatre melodramas (BBC, 1965)’ (1 July 2014)
‘From Edward Albee to Tennessee Williams: American drama on the British small screen’ (20 June 2014)
‘More Synge on the small screen’ (12 May 2014)
‘The Edwardians: J. M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea (BBC, 1960)’ (30 April 2014)
‘The True Mistery of the Passion in Bristol Cathedral (BBC, 1960)’ (17 April 2014)
‘Design for Murder adapted to a theatre setting (BBC, 1958 and 1961)’ (7 April 2014)
‘Stanley Houghton’s The Younger Generation (Granada for ITV, 1959)’ (7 January 2014)
‘Arthur Miller on the small screen 5: Broken Glass (BBC, 1997)’ (29 November 2013)
‘Greek plays: Medea (A-R for ITV Schools, 1963)’ (28 September 2013)
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream (A-R for ITV, 1964)’ (9 September 2013)
‘Arthur Miller on the small screen 4: A View from the Bridge‘ (2 June 2013)
‘Arthur Miller on the small screen 3: The Crucible’ (23 May 2013)
‘Arthur Miller on the small screen 2: Granada productions in the late 1950s’ (10 May 2013)
‘Arthur Miller on the small screen 1: Death of a Salesman‘ (10 February 2013)
‘Christmas past at the BBC: the second half of the 1950s. Part 2’ (31 December 2012)
‘Christmas past at the BBC: the second half of the 1950s. Part 1’ (28 December 2012)
‘The Clouds (BBC / The Open University, 1971)’ (22 December 2012)
‘In Rehearsal: The Bacchae (BBC, 1969)’ (21 November 2012)
‘A307 Drama: Woyzeck (BBC / The Open University, 1977)’ (16 November 2012)
‘A307 Drama: The Balcony (BBC / The Open University, 1977) … banned!’ (31 October 2012)
‘A307 Drama: Six Characters in Search of an Author (BBC / The Open University, 1977)’ (21 September 2012)
‘The Angry Gods, comprising Iphigenia at Aulis, Oresteia and The Winter’s Tale (A-R for ITV Schools, 1961)’ (31 May 2012)
‘ “A television experiment”: the Teddington Theatre Club’s Noah (BBC, 1966)’ (16 May 2012)
‘Greek plays: Iphigenia at Aulis (BBC, 1990)’ (26 April 2012)
‘Greek plays: Antigone, part 3 of The Theban Plays (BBC, 1986)’ (6 April 2012)
‘Greek plays: Oedipus at Colonus, part 2 of The Theban Plays (BBC, 1986)’ (20 March 2012)
‘Greek plays: Oedipus the King, part 1 of The Theban Plays‘ (BBC, 1986)’ (9 March 2012)
‘Greek plays: the National Theatre’s The Oresteia (Channel 4, 1983)’ (23 January 2012)
‘A postscript to The Serpent Son: Of Mycenae and Men (BBC, 1979)’ (27 December 2011)
‘Greek plays: Philoctetes for BBC Schools (1961-62)’ (22 December 2011)
‘Greek plays: viewing Women of Troy (BBC, 1958)’ (30 November 2011)
‘Greek plays: The Serpent Son (BBC, 1979)’ (5 November 2011)
‘Greek plays: Lysistrata redux (BBC, 1964)’ (21 October 2011)
‘A307 Drama: Macbeth (BBC / Open University, 1977)’ (9 September 2011)
‘Greek plays: Oedipus the King (BBC / Open University, 1977)’ (2 September 2011)
‘Greek plays: Sophocles’ Electra (BBC, 1974)’ (26 August 2011)
‘Greek plays: King Oedipus (BBC, 1972)’ (17 August 2011)
‘Greek plays: Sophocles’ Electra (A-R for ITV, 1962)’ (10 August 2011)
‘Greek plays: Lysistrata (BBC, 1964)’ (28 June 2011)
‘Greek plays: Women of Troy (BBC, 1958)’ (21 June 2011)
‘Greeks on screen’ (13 June 2011)

Databases and listings

2016 Screen Plays: The Theatre Plays on British Television Database, University of Westminster / British Universities Film and Video Council [online here]. Contributor, with J. Wyver: records for 3000+ British television productions of stage plays from the 1930s to the present day.
2005 ‘Agamemnons on the APGRD Database’ (a detailed listing of c. 750 productions), Ch.9 in F. Macintosh, P. Michelakis, E. Hall and O. Taplin (eds.), Agamemnon in Performance, 458 BC to AD 2004, 359-435. Oxford University Press.
2005 APGRD Database, University of Oxford. Contributor, 2001-2005 and Editor, 2005-2009. Records for nearly 10,000 productions of Greek and Roman drama performed on stage, film and radio, internationally and from the Renaissance to the present. [link]
2005 ‘Chronological Appendix’ (a detailed listing of c. 500 productions), in E. Hall and F. Macintosh, Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914, 555-590. Oxford University Press.
2004 ‘Details of Productions Discussed’ (a detailed listing of c. 700 productions), Ch.15 in E. Hall, F. Macintosh and A. Wrigley (eds.), Dionysus since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium, 369-418. Oxford University Press.