TV, radio, novels, stories, poems and cartoons by Steve Walker

RADIOPLAYS

Since the first Steve Walker radioplay was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988, there have been 40 more - mostly on BBC but a few elsewhere, RTÉ and SDR. They have been broadcast all over the world, in the original and in translations and new productions. Over the years they have wowed many, outraged some, and won a few awards. One review called them 'the most inventive used of radio since The Goons'. This page has a full list of them, with illustrations and commentary. The full texts of some also appear here, and more are being added all the time.


	RADIOPLAYS Since the first Steve Walker radioplay was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988, there have been 40 more - mostly on BBC but a few elsewhere, RTÉ and SDR. They have been broadcast all over the world, in the original and in translations and new productions. Over the years they have wowed many, outraged some, and won a few awards. One review called them 'the most inventive used of radio since The Goons'. This page has a full list of them, with illustrations and commentary. The full texts of some also appear here, and more are being added all the time.

TV SHOWS
"Imaginative and stimulating stories which also make you think."
This review of Noah's Island describes all of Steve Walker's animated TV shows for children, which are popular with adults all over Europe too.
Read about The Animals of Farthing Wood, Noah's Island, Lapitch, the Little Shoemaker, The Little Grey Men, The School of Magic and The Shaggy Beast on this page.


	TV SHOWS "Imaginative and stimulating stories which also make you think." This review of Noah's Island describes all of Steve Walker's animated TV shows for children, which are popular with adults all over Europe too. Read about The Animals of Farthing Wood, Noah's Island, Lapitch, the Little Shoemaker, The Little Grey Men, The School of Magic and The Shaggy Beast on this page.

NOVELS
"Steve Walker's brilliantly inventive excursions into our fractal, fractured future..."
Read excerpts from the science fiction novels which almost a decade ago predicted reality TV, America's isolation, Africa's depopulation and the rise of Osama bin Laden... as well as Scotland colonizing Mars, supermarkets where you can buy everything you will ever need, and Bunnyland.
This page has excerpts from 21st Century Blues, the novel of the BBC radio series, and its sequel 22nd Century Blues. And the funniest murder story ever: Plethora of Gits.


	NOVELS "Steve Walker's brilliantly inventive excursions into our fractal, fractured future..." Read excerpts from the science fiction novels which almost a decade ago predicted reality TV, America's isolation, Africa's depopulation and the rise of Osama bin Laden... as well as Scotland colonizing Mars, supermarkets where you can buy everything you will ever need, and Bunnyland. This page has excerpts from 21st Century Blues, the novel of the BBC radio series, and its sequel 22nd Century Blues. And the funniest murder story ever: Plethora of Gits.

POEMS
"Despite all the other work exhibited on this site, poetry remains my central activity. Between 1966 and 1986 I published hundreds of poems in magazines as well as booklets and collections. Then I decided to stop publishing poetry altogether. Why? Because my plays were then being produced, I was getting into TV and radio, with all the associated commercial and critical pressures. I didn't want my poetry to suffer from those same pressures. I needed it to remain entirely itself, private and isolated."
On this page there are links to the previous published collections: I Am Against the Mouse People and Housebreakers. There is also a facsimile of the very first: A Coastal Town. And the online collection of poems written in the last 20 years: 1000 Picnics. Twenty-seven poems with illustrations.


	POEMS "Despite all the other work exhibited on this site, poetry remains my central activity. Between 1966 and 1986 I published hundreds of poems in magazines as well as booklets and collections. Then I decided to stop publishing poetry altogether. Why? Because my plays were then being produced, I was getting into TV and radio, with all the associated commercial and critical pressures. I didn't want my poetry to suffer from those same pressures. I needed it to remain entirely itself, private and isolated." On this page there are links to the previous published collections: I Am Against the Mouse People and Housebreakers. There is also a facsimile of the very first: A Coastal Town. And the online collection of poems written in the last 20 years: 1000 Picnics. Twenty-seven poems with illustrations.

SHORT STORIES
On the Ill Winds page are 19 new stories from the forthcoming collection. These are a Steve Walker speciality: enormous stories, only a page long.
On the main Stories page can be found other very short stories, some with pictures as an integral part, including Autopsy of a Gnome and Life on a Cake. And a longer story, Elgin Marbles, about a boy whose grandfather is responsible for the whole world. Also on this page are three new stories featuring the collosal hero of Plethora of Gits, Wilf Windscale.


	SHORT STORIES On the Ill Winds page are 19 new stories from the forthcoming collection. These are a Steve Walker speciality: enormous stories, only a page long. On the main Stories page can be found other very short stories, some with pictures as an integral part, including Autopsy of a Gnome and Life on a Cake. And a longer story, Elgin Marbles, about a boy whose grandfather is responsible for the whole world. Also on this page are three new stories featuring the collosal hero of Plethora of Gits, Wilf Windscale.

CARTOONS
Here you'll find a selection of Steve Walker's Total Government cartoons. New cartoons are added each week.
It is an overwhelming human comedy, a celebration of governmental and just plain mental behaviour. Hop in and discover who really runs the world, and how. You will soon discover that there is a Minister responsible for everything that exists, and also for everything that does not exist.


	CARTOONS Here you'll find a selection of Steve Walker's Total Government cartoons. New cartoons are added each week. It is an overwhelming human comedy, a celebration of governmental and just plain mental behaviour. Hop in and discover who really runs the world, and how. You will soon discover that there is a Minister responsible for everything that exists, and also for everything that does not exist.

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