Michael Bartlett

Michael Bartlett has been a professional writer since 1972 when his first radio play HAPPY DEATHDAY TO YOU was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Since then he has written around 15 radio plays, many radio adaptations, children's plays for television and several adaptions of novels for touring theatre companies. In 1989 his radio play THERE'S A SLIGHT DEPRESSION CENTRED OVER BRITAIN won the IBA/Radio Clyde drama award. He has also written for THE ARCHERS and the children's TV show RAINBOW. He worked for BBC Radio as a drama producer and script editor in the 1970s and 1980s, ran an audio production company in the 1990s and is now Editor of the audio book publishing company CRIMSON CATS.

He has recently turned to writing prose and his first two volumes of short stories, PERSONAL ISLANDS and MY VILLAGE IN THE VALLEY were published by Crumps Barn Studio in November 2021