Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly | |
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Born | Grangetown,Middlesbrough,England | 13 November 1940
Died | 30 April 2020 | (aged 79)
Wally K. Daly(13 November 1940 – 30 April 2020)[1][2]was an English writer for television and radio and one-time chairman of theWriters' Guild of Great Britain.He was born inGrangetown,Middlesbrough.[citation needed]
Television
[edit]As well as some minor acting roles includingZ-Cars,his writing credits includeJuliet Bravo,CasualtyandByker Grove.He also wrote the 1984 radio seriesAnything LegalfeaturingDonald HewlettandMichael Knowles.[citation needed]
Daly also wrote a story forDoctor WhocalledThe Ultimate Evilbut due to its hiatus, the story was cancelled but was published in the popular range ofDoctor Whobooks, then later adapted into aBig Finishaudio story as a part of theirLost Storiesaudio range.[citation needed]
Theatre
[edit]In the early 1980s, three of his stage plays were performed at theQueen's Theatre, Hornchurch-The Miracle Shirker,Vaughan Street(both 1980) and a stage adaptation of his radio and television playButterflies Don't Count(1982).[3]
Radio plays
[edit]- Whistling Wally(1974)
- Everybody's Got A Quid(1975)
- Priest(1975)
- Confessor(1975)
- Give Or Take The Odd Thousand(1977)
- Before The Screaming Begins (BTSB Part I)(1978)
- What's Stigmata?(1978)
- The Silent Scream (BTSB Part II)(1979)
- Burglar's Bargains(1979)
- It's A Wise Child(1979)
- Only the Lonely(1979)
- Give or Take(1981)
- A Right Royal Rip-Off(1982)
- Time Slip(1983)
- Anything Legal(1984)
- With A Whimper To The Grave (BTSB Part III)(1984)
- Welcome Sister Death(1984)
- The Bigger They Are(1985)
- A Plague of Goodness(1986)
- Without Fire(1986)
- Mary's(1987)
- The Giftie(1988)
- Cripplehead(1988)
- Nightmare World(1989;[4]R4 1990[5])
- Focus(1990) Adapted from theArthur Millernovel of the same name.
- Orphans in Waiting(1990)
- Fair Exchange(1992)
- Butterflies Don't Count(1992)
- The Broken Butterfly(1992)
- 2004(1995)
- Rasputin - Almost the Truth(1996)
- Death of an Unimportant Pope(1997)
- 625Y(1999)
- For I Have Sinned(2001)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (2001)|The Prioress's Story(2001)
- Yesterday's Dreams(2002)
- With This Ring(2003)
- Suffer Little Children(2003)
- The Children of Witchwood(2005)
Before the Screaming Begins(1978), the first part of a science fiction trilogy in three thirty-minute episodes for BBC Radio, featuredJames Laurenson,Donald HewlettandPatrick Troughton.Part two was entitledThe Silent Scream.It too featured James Laurenson and Donald Hewlett and alsoHannah Gordon.Originally broadcast as a 90-minute play in 1979, it was re-broadcast in March and December 2008 as three thirty-minute episodes made from an off-air recording by Wally K. Daly as the original mastertape had been lost.[6]The third part was entitledWith a Whimper to the Grave.John Shrapnelreplaced James Laurenson andMaureen O'Brienreplaced Hannah Gordon. It also featuredDonald Hewlett,Angela Thorne,Patrick TroughtonandTimothy West.As with the first two parts it was re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in March and December 2008 in three thirty-minute episodes made from an off-aircassette recordingby Wally K. Daly.[citation needed]
He was also a presenter forBBC Radio 2on a brief early Saturday morning stint in the summer of 1994.[7]
Bibliography
[edit]- Butterflies Don't Count(Play for Today), 1978,ISBN978-0-413-45660-1
- The Ultimate Evil(Doctor Who), 1989ISBN978-0-426-20338-4
- Love Without Hope(Byker Grove), 1991,ISBN978-0-563-36261-6
- Fighting Back(Byker Grove), 1991,ISBN978-0-563-36271-5
- Temptation(Byker Grove), 1992,ISBN978-0-563-36483-2
References
[edit]- ^Wally K. Daly
- ^"DIVERSITY WEBSITE -Wally K Daly radio drama & plays".
- ^Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch Archive, 1989-80,Retrieved 2009-26-09
- ^BBC World Service, Play of the Week, 11 March 1989https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/56344aa7c6a9531e5ca0299152af5f81
- ^24 May 1990https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0199336e44584797b9f773be5ea03d42
- ^BBC Radio 718:00 4 December 2008
- ^BBC Genome Project - Radio Times listings