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The House of Wanstead by Michael Daines
Medium: Feature. Email: michaeldines@beeb.net

George and Libby Rooker and their son Georgie have the ideal lifestyle, doing what their ancestors did-armed robbery, shoplifting and conning pensioners out of their savings. But that's all about to change. Lapsed Mormon genealogist Carrie-Anne Grant is a girl with a mission, to put the Rookers where they belong-on the throne of England. Armed with research that conclusively proves George is the rightful monarch, Carrie-Anne tracks down the Rookers and tells them of their good fortune.

The Mirror by Alice D Cooper
Medium: Feature. Email: adcooper@btinternet.com

Skewed by a mirror shard, James Wortman’s a mysterious death is investigated by cynical Inspector Golding and Van the psychic Dutch Pathologist. John, James’ twin, an arrogant man derides the police work. But John’s girlfriend Claire is attracted by Van’s gentleness. Something lurks behind the mirror, and Claire is its next victim. It drags her through the mirror into a strange blue world of fear.

The Mobile by Lydia Parker
Medium: Feature. Email: alunandlydia.parker@virgin.net

A young woman unwittingly becomes drawn into the sordid life and affairs of a loud businessman with a mobile phone on the train from London to Bath

The Mole by Marc Pye
Medium: Feature. Email: marc.pye@lineone.net

The Mole is based upon the life of Joseph Williamson, an 1800's Liverpool eccentric who inherited a vast sum of money from his father in law on his deathbed with the instruction that he must do good with it. Joseph decided to disguise charity to the necessitous poor - soldiers returning home from the Napoleonic wars to find there was no work - by generating the worlds first 'job creation scheme'.

The Price of Life by Craig Henderson
Medium: Feature. Email: craighenderson@web-hq.com

A failed undercover police operation to catch Dominic McGrath. McGrath uses a city courier firm to launder drug money. On the day, things start to go wrong. Spencer, McGrath's driver makes enemies along the way, McGrath's minions end up dead and there is no sign of any money. 5 months later the money is handed in to the police there is only one person to blame for this.

The Summer of Fifi LaBelle by Helen Brady
Medium: Feature. Email: hlenbrdii@hotmail.com

What do two sixteen-year old boys, from the rural middle of nowhere, who have pretensions to intellectual sophistication want? SEX with a French woman. Gerry and Roger are "nice" boys, the only sons of respectable, middle-class parents. They live in a small, pretty country town and go to the local boy's grammar school and they're really into films. Girls are a bit of a mystery to them, and their mates. But GCSE's are over and summer's coming

The Trials of Helen Duncan by Alice D Cooper
Medium: Feature. Email: adcooper@btinternet.com

The tragic true story of Helen Duncan, one of the greatest psychics of the 20th Century, and the last person to be convicted as a witch. The year is 1944...

The Wicked Sleep by Chase Johnston-Lynch
Medium: Feature. Email: moon2blaze@hotmail.com

This is a murder mystery that begins with a dead body and follows a labyrinthine path through copycat killings and a bad drug deal involving crooked cops. When two private detectives join forces to squeeze the similar cases together that are 20 years apart, all kind of hell pops lose. This is the first in a series of bizarre happenings explored by American Detective, Ramsey Caan

Tongue Tied by Jason Clarke
Medium: Feature. Email: jasonclarke7@hotmail.com

Paul is a mechanic who dreams of being a writer. When he teaches his Indian neighbour's niece English, their teacher-pupil relationship looks like breaking the rules. But when Paul learns Mansi is to have an arranged marriage, he has to find the words to follow his heart and his ambitions.

Truce by Peter Shillingford
Medium: Feature. Email: findshill@btoprnworld.com

Christmas 1914 saw the truce begun by the Germans and honoured by the English. Bitter enemies became friends. Wine, beer and military rations were exchanged, contents of marksmanships, wrestling and the famous football match were played. Artillery shelled both lines and No Mans Land became a bloody battleground once more.

Unnatural Girl by Lorrie Sheehy
Medium: Feature. Email: lorrie.sheehy@virgin.net

Imprisoned by her mother in a Bavarian clinic for sexual deviants, 21 year old New Zealander Katherine Mansfield escapes to visit her beloved brother in London. The city absorbs her and she is consumed by it. She makes it her own as she discovers its underworld and challenges its outer life vowing to experience everything of it, everything that will fuel her writing and inform her new life. But this is a time of war and Katherine will hear the heavy march of boots one too many times as she learns through devastating tragedy that life is not about the living of experience, but the experience of emotion.

While The Sun Shines by Julian Astin
Medium: Feature. Email: julian.astin@s-f.com

HOWIE, a newly retired forest officer in British Columbia, Canada is marking time. But a chance meeting at a gas station gets him thinking. With little consideration he and his wife PEARL decide, somewhat impetuously, to take to the road, permanently, in a recreational vehicle or RV. And like all 'Snowbirds' there's only one place to go; south. But there's a problem - their daughter SYLVIE. Now in her early thirties Sylvie is still persecuting her parents for the accidental death (from an overdose) of her brother fifteen years earlier.

All Sweetness & Light by Chris Kelly
Medium: Theatre. Email: c_kelly@ckelly.co.uk

This three act stage play takes place in Jacksy’s Nightclub where two ex punks meet after many years and try to recapture the mood of the punk movement. They reminisce and realise that they have outgrown the clubbing lifestyle. They and the other characters discover what they really want from life and where they are going. A play for six characters

All the Toys in the Toyshop
Medium: Theatre. Email: hughbrune@aol.com

The job interview from hell. A strangely-overqualified candidate; a nervous, recently-demoted interviewer; and a fiery-tempered boss who can't bear timewasters. Who really holds the balance of power between them?

Allport's Revenge by Anthony Melnikoff
Medium: Theatre. Email: almelnikoff@btopenworld.com

Jonathan, a law student and "born again" Jew in his early twenties, arrives with Rivka, his new girlfriend, at the house of his parents, Naomi and Arnold, where a dinner is planned to celebrate his birthday. Jonathan has a degenerative kidney condition which we learn is inherited from his mother, and is in urgent need of a transplant. The condition, known as "Allport's Syndrome"

Beautiful Objects by Anna Lidstone
Medium: Theatre. Emails: anna_lidstone@hotmail.com

The world is at war with itself. Children are shooting children. Mobile phones are ringing for those who will never answer them again. The media still thinks there is an objective truth. Everyone is just doing their best in a world they don’t understand. The last thing anyone needs is a government which thinks it has the answer…

Closer to Home by Anna Lidstone
Medium: Theatre. Email: anna_lidstone@hotmail.com

A teenager sits trying to do his homework surrounded by the soundscape of his drunken father and his weary mother fighting in the next room, with only a closed door between them. A ‘radio stage play’, Closer to Home is an experiment in the possibilities of theatre, where the main character, the only character to appear on stage, does not say a single word

Cottage Pie by Martin Henshell and Adso Brown
Medium: Theatre. Email: adsobrown2@aol.com

Mick and Marianne's hopes for a quiet anniversary are shattered when Keith (Mick's brother and Marianne's estranged husband) arrives, bringing with him an illegal immigrant not long for this world and half a million dollars worth of diamonds. Can there be explosive, modern farce of piracy, publishing, diamonds and pie? "This is not a gamble. This is a right of birth."

Dead Guy's Reunion by Nevill Williams & David Budd
Medium: Theatre. Email: cryhelpproductions@supanet.com

Five friends gather for their friend's funeral. In the five years since they last saw each other their lives and relationships have taken them along different paths. Paul, the once up and coming solicitor is now teaching history at his old school. Lauren, Paul's ex-girlfriend, is close to greatness in the career she has made for herself. Anne and Jonathan, married but far from happy, have forgotten how to communicate. Jonathan knows nothing of Anne's pregnancy and she knows nothing of his fantastical plans. Stephen was Guy's lover. All he wants is to go back to his boat in the Maldives, watch the sun set and turn back time to when he last held Guy.

Eternal Return by Amanda Walker
Medium: Theatre. Email: amanda.walker@english.oxford.ac.uk

Family is where you are supposed to be safe. Right? What if your family is the problem? Structurally the play consists of five separate character perspectives, each comprised of fragmented memories. These combine to give a complete narrative in which memory and history collide and the past becomes irrepressible. The play explores the events that created this turbulent consciousness in the first of five acts

In the Museum by Malcolm Seymour
Medium: Theatre. Email: malc@seymour54.fsnet.co.uk

Bernard Home is the curator of a small-town museum. At closing time, he invites his long visitor, Andrew to stay behind for coffee and biscuits. He shows Andrew some of his secret exhibits, grisly momentos from the town’s history. But Bernard not only knows a lot about the history of the town, but also about the history of his visitor.

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