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The Creation image The Doubter's Mysteries, a cycle of sceptical Mystery Plays (plays based on Bible stories), 2018-19.
Cake Maker front cover image The Cake Maker of Transylvania, September 2019 - a ghoulish love story, for slightly older children and adults, by myself and Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis, about a vampire cake maker who bakes women's hearts into his cakes to make them tastier. Now available from Amazon - if you buy a copy, please take a few moments to rate and review!
Pilchards front cover image Pilchards, November 2018 - a funny picture-book about teasing, for children aged four and up, by myself and my lovely friend Mollie Macgregor-Kinnis. Now available from Amazon.
QCQ image Dr Hairy and the QCQ, the third series of Dr Hairy videos, first published in 2017.
Mr Punch image The Calamitous Tale of Mr Punch, a puppet-animation based on the traditional Punch and Judy story, first published in 2016.
Christmas Carol image Dr Hairy, Series 2, the second series of Dr Hairy videos, first published in 2014.
Gilgamesh image Gilgamesh, a puppet-animation based on the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, first published in 2013.
Job's Comforters image Job's Comforters, a poem-video based on the Biblical Book of Job, first published in 2013.
And image And, Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South, abridged by the unusual method of leaving out all the important bits (2011).
Friday Morning at the Surgery image Friday Morning at the Surgery, a video-poem with music, made in Macromedia Flash, based on a list of things said by the patients at the surgery where I work (2011).
London Churches image London Churches, fiction/prose-poetry and pictures, based on a number of visits I made to churches in the City of London (2009-11).
Dr Hairy image Dr Hairy, series 1, the first series of satirical puppet-videos about a fictional GP struggling to cope with life in the NHS (2010-11).
Puzzle Box image The Puzzle Box, a magic-and-mystery story for children, with interactive elements (2008-9).
Blackbird image Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, an animated, interactive version (using Macromedia Flash), of Wallace Stevens' famous modernist poem (2007).
Frog-o-Mighty image Frog-o-Mighty, an animation in three parts, based on a game I played with my daughter Rachel using the ornaments on our living-room window-sill (2006). Two young chicks become embroiled in the machinations of an evil frog and his penguin sidekick.
dragonface image An Unimportant Story, a non-linear story in four parts (2006). A father gets his daughter ready for school. The daughter invents a tale about a dragon and a goose. The mother fantasises about attracting other men, and worries that she might have cancer. An old man who lives across the road reminisces about someone he met in the British Library.
banana image Banana Story, short animation (in Flash) based on an idea from my daughter Rachel (2005). A banana reads in the newspaper, to his horror, that monkeys eat bananas; and he sets off to find out for himself whether it's true.
chick image Chicks, short animation (in Flash) based on another idea from my daughter Rachel (2005). A Welsh choir of chicks has its rehearsal disrupted by Big Chick's determination to sing a solo.
Linesland image Linesland, short animation (in Flash) based on yet another idea from my daughter Rachel (2004). A nice game of noughts-and-crosses is disturbed by the unwelcome arrival of a Scribble Monster.
Flowerstory image Flower Story, a story for children with pictures and animations (2003). A little girl gets turned into a flower by a wicked cat-lady.