David Pownall FRSL (born 19 May 1938[1]) is a critically acclaimed and prize-winning author of plays, novels and short stories. He is a prolific radio dramatist known for a diverse body of work[2].
Biography[]
David Pownall was born in Liverpool in l938 and educated at Lord Wandsworth College and Keele University. He worked for the Ford motor company and subsequently for in the Zambian copper-mining industry as a personnel officer. He returned to England in l969 to start a new career as a writer, finding success in the theatre[3].
His first radio play was broadcast in 1972. Since then, he has written many plays for the theatre and over sixty for radio, as well as twelve novels, and several works of nonfiction.
He is married to the photographer Alex Pownall and has two sons.
Radio Awards[]
David Pownall has won two Giles Cooper Awards for radio plus a Sony Gold and two Sony Silver Awards.
Radio Plays[]
- Free Ferry (1972)
- Free House (1973)
- An Old New Year (1974)
- A Place in the Country (1974)
- Fences (1976)
- Under the Wool (1976)
- Lile Jimmy Williamson (1976)
- Music to Murder By (1976)
- Backstop (1977)
- Motocar (1978)
- Richard III Part Two (1978)
- Barricade (1979)
- Livingstone and Sechele (1979)
- Beef (1981)
- Later (1981)
- Butterfingers (1981)
- The Mist People (1981)
- Flos (1982)
- Master Class (1984)
- Ploughboy Monday (1985)
- Beloved Latitudes (1986)
- A Matter of Style (1988)
- The Bridge at Orbigo (1989)
- Plato Not NATO (1990)
- Glossomaniacs (1990)
- Bringing Up Nero (1991)
- Rousseau's Tale (1991)
- Kitty Wilkinson (1992)
- Dreams and Censorship (1993)
- Elgar's Third (1993)
- Fishing for Ghosts (1994 )
- Something to Remember You By (1994)
- The Grapes of Roi (1995)
- Selling the Archbishop (1995)
- Under the Table (1995)
- O Shannandoah (1996)
- Churchill's Nose (1996)
- Satchelmouth (1996)
- Brahms on a Slow Train (1996)
- Pound on Mr. Greenhill (1997)
- Gift from the North (1997)
- A View from Genesis (1997)
- Making Love, War and Peace (1998)
- Stolen Time (1998)
- An Epiphanous Use of the Microphone (1998)
- Cadenza (1998)
- The Man Without the Mobile (1998)
- The Boarding House (1998)
- Cuban Solo (1999)
- The Virgin Knife (1999)
- A Mere Five Thousand Pounds (1999)
- Sic Semper Tyrannis (1999)
- Byron's Fancy (1999)
- Blitzma (1999)
- I Want to Go Home (2000)
- Before Your Very Eyes (2000)
- Fumers (2000)
- Bread of Heaven (2000)
- An Insular Motet (2000)
- Barbara Allen (2001)
- Facade (2002)
- Spies (2002)
- Heather (2002)
- Curriculum Vitae (2002)
- Love is an Existential Thing (2003)
- Dizzy Spells (2004)
- Hard Frosts in Florence (2005)
- Hide (2006)
- Born for War (2006)
- Elgar's Rondo (2007)
- The Regent's Tale (2007)
- Prayer Mask (2008)
- Torch Number One (2009)
- Master Class (2009)
- Slow Boat to Leningrad (2009)
- Sarah Siddons - Life in Five Sittings (2010)
- Nyama (2010)
- Writing on Wigan Pier (2010)