Patricia Cumper

FAITH, HOPE AND GLORY

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Produce and direct this series of three 45' plays twice yearly exploring the lives over decades of three Windrush generation women and their families for BBC Radio 4. 

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THE AMPLIFY PROJECT

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Co-produce and co-present a podcast about Black British Writers for the page, stage and screen, their lives, work and practice funded by Arts Council England.

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BOOK AT BEDTIME

 

In 2022, abridged the work of E Annie Proulx's Fen, Bog and Swamp, Bernardine Evaristo's Manifesto.  In 2023, abridging Naoise Mac Sweeney's The West - A New History of an Old Idea. 

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1771

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Researching and drafting play about controversial Somerset v Stewart court case.

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GLIMPSE

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Contributed short story 'SKIN' to speculative fiction anthology published by Peepal Tree Press.

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MAYA ANGELOU'S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

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Dramatised four of the six autobiographies by Maya Angelou for BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour.  The whole series won the Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting Award at the 2020 Audio Drama Awards.

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GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER

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Abridged Girl, Woman, Other - the Booker Prize winning novel by Bernardine Evaristo - for BBC Book at Bedtime. 

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THE HOUSING LARK

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Abridged The Housing Lark, a classic Caribbean novel by Sam Selvon, for BBC Book at Bedtime.

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PARDNA

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A 45 minute play about the lives of four south London women broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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TOMMIES

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Co-wrote an episode of BBC Radio drama series set in World War One in September 2018.

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TROIS FEMMES PUISSANTES

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Dramatised the Prix Goncourt winning novel by Marie NDiaye for BBC Radio 3.  Runner up in BBC Radio Awards 2016 for Contribution to Diversity. 

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MR. TROLLOPE  AND THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

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45 minute play based on the travel writings of Anthony Trollope in the Caribbean.

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JAB MOLASSIE

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Directed a Caribbean adaptation of Stravinksy's The Soldier's Tale in Port of Spain Trinidad in 2015. 

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CHIGGER FOOT BOYS

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 My play about the experiences of Caribbean soldiers in WW1 including Jamaican national hero Norman Manley  brought to the stage at Tara Arts directed by Irina Brown.  

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