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Roy has written sixty-odd television scripts and sixty not-so-odd ones.  For ten years, he wrote for the long running, award winning children's drama series, Byker Grove.  Here his first job as scriptwriter was to devise a story to ‘write-out’ the two main characters at the time, PJ and Duncan, played by Ant and Dec. As well as Byker Grove, Roy has contributed to

many children's comedy and drama programmes, ranging from Play Away, Chucklevision and Rainbow to Out of Sight. His short film, Frankie Stein's Robot, was the British entry in the European Broadcasting Union's 1997 Children's Film Festival.

He was a member of the scriptwriting team on The Ghost Hunter, which won The Radio Times' Most Popular Children's Television Programme of 2000 poll.

He has also created and written four comedy-drama series for the BBC - Marlene Marlowe, No Sweat, and Stacey Stone and Barmy Aunt Boomerang, starring Toyah Willcox.

"At last, a children’s series…. With STYLE."
Mail on Sunday

In 2001, Toyah presented Roy with the BAFTA Children's Film and Television Writer's Award for his special contribution to children's television.

Roy is presented with the BAFTA Children's Film & Television Writers' Award by Toyah Willcox, who starred as Barmy Aunt Boomerang in Roy's television series of the same name ( Roy is the one of the left).

Radio

"A top quality writer."

Radio Times                              

Roy's work for radio includes dramatisations of Sherlock Holmes stories and Norse myths, as well as children's classics such as The Wizard of Oz, and Emil and the Detectives.  
Roy's dramatisation of Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman was shortlisted for the 1995 Sony Awards.
More recently, he has dramatised Michael Morpurgo’s Why The Whales Came, and his own award winning novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons for BBC Radio 4. 
His original work for radio includes short stories such as Whistler’s Wall (read by Robert Glenister) and The Grey Lady (read by Joanna David), features and plays.  His most recent play, The Master & Mrs Tucker about the friendship between Noel Coward and the children’s writer E Nesbit was broadcast on Boxing Day 2005 on BBC Radio 4.

Theatre

Roy’s plays have been seen in Edinburgh and at The New Inn Theatre, London, Pentameters Theatre, London and the Connaught Theatre, Worthing.
In April 2005, The Devil & Daniel Lyons, a brand new musical based on his novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons was staged at The Sinden Theatre, Tenterden, Kent to great acclaim.  Book and lyrics were by Roy, music by Stephen Pusey.
Some audience reactions to ‘The Devil & Daniel Lyons’:

- "A truly great story… that is still of relevance today."
- "The cast were so obviously enjoying themselves!"
- "This is a show that fills one with joy."
- "One week on and we are still singing ‘Some Day When’ and ‘Call Me Naughty Nell.'"
 - "Funny, involving and well written… some moments left us with goose bumps."
- "Brilliant.  The lyrics were witty and sharp and the music out of this world."
- "Uplifting… involving…"
- "A superb show."

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