Robert Forrest

Robert Forrest is a Scottish three-time Sony Award winning dramatist (playwright) who has created many radio shows for BBC Radio and a stage play 'Jason and the Argonauts' for children that toured internationally and on Broadway. He has also adapted The Exorcist for BBC Radio 4 (Feb 2014).

History and personal life

Forrest lives in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Radio adaptations

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, BBC Radio 4, February 2014 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, BBC Radio 4, 6–13 May 2012 The Pillow Book by Robert Forrest, BBC Radio 4, 2009–2012 Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler, BBC Radio 7, 28 February – 4 March 2011 Adam Bede by George Eliot, BBC Radio 7, 3–17 July 2010 The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 24 January – 7 February 2010 The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 13–27 June 2010 Smiley's People by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 11–25 April 2010 The Voyage of the Demeter, BBC Radio 4, 23 February 2008, 31 October 2009 Call for the Dead by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 23 May 2009 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, BBC Radio 7, 27–29 January 2009 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré, BBC Radio 4, 5–19 July 2009 The Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson, BBC Radio 7, 20 June 2009 Parade's End by Ford Mattox Ford, BBC Radio 4, 2003 The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, BBC Radio 4, 1996 The Strange Case of the Man in the Velvet Jacket by Robert Forrest, BBC Radio 3, 2011

Stage shows Lucia, Fifth Estate, Edinburgh, 1994 Jason and the Argonauts, Broadway, 2009 Poem in October, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 2009 Curse of the Demeter, Glasgow, 2010