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Roy has written sixty-odd television scripts and sixty not-so-odd ones. For ten years, he wrote for the award winning children's drama series, Byker Grove. Here his first job was to devise a story to 'write-out' the two main characters, PJ and Duncan, played by Ant and Dec. |
Roy is presented with the BAFTA Children's Film & Television Writers' Award for his special contribution to children's television by singer and actress Toyah Wilcox. (Roy is the one on the left). |
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. He has dramatised Michael Morpurgo's Why The Whales Came, Jeremy Strong's The 100 Mile and Hour Dog and and his own award winning novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons for BBC Radio. |
Roy Apps Children's Author - Scriptwriter - Dramatist - Lyricist |
The Twitches stories have been adapted for ''Big Toe Books" on BBC Radio 7. For the brand new flip book edition of The Twitches and The Twitches on Horriday see Roy's Book Shop |
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"Roy Apps is…. a top quality writer." Radio Times |
Radio & TV Awards |
Jennings Little Hut was abridged by Roy for BBC Radio 4 and read by Mark Williams. |
Most recently, Roy has been working on Casper's Scare School, a new animation series. |
As well as Byker Grove, Roy has written and contributed to many other television programmes such as The Ghost Hunter, which won The Radio Times' Most Popular Children's Television Programme poll. |
Roy's dramatisation of Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman received a Sony Silver Award. |
Roy wrote Nell's First Night for the 200th Anniversary celebrations of the Theatre Royal, Brighton. This story was later broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
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