Neville Teller

Neville Teller (born 1931) is a British dramatist and abridger. A prolific contributor to BBC Radio, his first broadcast was a 1956 abridgement of Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins, which was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes.

Early life and education Neville Teller was born in London in 1931. He attended Owen's School in Islington and went on to study modern history at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He has three sons and now lives in Israel. He has written or adapted around 50 radio plays and well over 250 abridged readings for broadcast on BBC radio. Alongside his radio work, Teller pursued a parallel career in the commercial and public sectors: he held positions in marketing, the media, and the civil service while continuing to write for radio. His analysis and opinion articles have appeared in publications such as The Jerusalem Post and the online journal Eurasia Review, and he maintained a personal blog called A Mid-East Journal on regional issues. The Chaos in the Middle East: 2014–2016 (2016), and Trump and the Holy Land: 2016–2020 (2020). In 2011, he relocated from the UK to Israel, from where he has continued his writing and commentary for publications in both Britain and Israel.

Teller also published two collections of radio dramatizations, Audio Drama - 10 Plays for Radio and Podcast (2019) and Audio Drama 2 - 10 More Plays for Radio and Podcast (2021). He later published Your Pro-Israel Bookshelf: 100 Titles Reviewed, a collection of book reviews written for The Jerusalem Post.

His adaptations of novels by P. D. James include five Adam Dalgliesh mysteries and both novels featuring the private detective Cordelia Gray.

Awards and recognition In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, Teller was awarded the title of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for "services to broadcasting and to drama".

Radio Adaptations of novels by P. D. James Adam Dalgliesh mysteries Cover Her Face (1993) Devices and Desires (1998) A Certain Justice (2005) A Taste for Death (2008) The Private Patient (2010) Cordelia Gray novels An Unsuitable Job for a Woman The Skull Beneath the Skin

Books One Man's Israel (2008) One Year in the History of Israel and Palestine (2011) The Search for Détente: Israel and Palestine 2012-2014 (2014) The Chaos in the Middle East: 2014-2016 (2016) Audio Drama - 10 Plays for Radio and Podcast (2019) Trump and the Holy Land: 2016-2020 (2020) Audio Drama 2 - 10 More Plays for Radio and Podcast (2021) Your Pro-Israel Bookshelf: 100 Titles Reviewed