Jeremy Mortimer
{{Short description|British radio director and producer}}
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Jeremy Mortimer is a British director and producer of radio dramas for BBC Radio.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/jeremy_mortimer/ Jeremy Mortimer's blog] on BBC's website, accessed 1 October 2010 He won the 2012 Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama with A Tale of Two Cities.[http://www.radioacademyawards.org/winners/2012/production-awards/best-drama Sony Radio Academy Awards 2012 – Best Drama] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519072043/http://www.radioacademyawards.org/winners/2012/production-awards/best-drama/ |date=2012-05-19 }}
Life
Jeremy Mortimer is the son of Sir John Mortimer and Penelope Mortimer and the half-brother of Emily Mortimer.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}
Mortimer's credits include The Pattern of Painful Adventures (BBC Radio 3, 2008) and radio adaptations of Daphnis and Chloe (BBC Radio 4, 2006), Philomel Cottage (Radio 4, 2002) and The Time Machine (Radio 3, 2009).[http://www.imagedissectors.com/audiontube/results.php?a=Person&q=376 Jeremy Mortimer] at Audion Tube, URL accessed 1 October 2010 His production of the Troy Trilogy, which featured Paul Scofield and was first broadcast on Radio 3 in 1998, was lauded as "the greatest radio drama [anyone] could ever hear."[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-week-in-radio-theres-still-no-place-like-homer-1189572.html The week in Radio: There's still no place like Homer, The Independent Sunday, 6 December 1998], URL accessed 29 June 2009.[http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/jeremymortimer.html Jeremy Mortimer productions on Diversity site], URL accessed 1 October 2010
Radio Plays
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! colspan=6 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Radio Plays Directed or Produced by Jeremy Mortimer |
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! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Date first broadcast ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Play ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Author ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Cast ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Synopsis ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Station |
id="Something Happened"
| {{dts|1990-09-19|format=dmy}} | Something Happened | Ben Onwukwe, Diana Bishop, Jonathan Firth, Mmoloki Chrystie, Kelda Holmes, Lizzie McInnerny and Trevor Nicholls | How does a family recover from the kidnapping of a child, and how does the child cope? |
id="Charley Tango"
| {{dts|1995-04-06|format=dmy}} | Charley Tango[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ff18bb4f76ac49e6adeb7d522fc03d84 BBC – Afternoon Play – Charley Tango] | Jade Buckland, Danielle Fraser Boam, Ndumiso Mvula, Yvonne Scicluna, Desmond Taylor, David Antrobus, David Calder, Rowena Cooper, Louis Mahoney, T-Bone Wilson, Colin McFarlane, Joan-Anne Maynard, Ewen Cummins, Cyril Nri, Claire Benedict and Otis Munyang 'Iri | Richard rides as photographer on convoy trucks returning African children to their families. Months later his photographs shatter the peace of an ordinary summer afternoon. |
id="Tiananmen Square"
| {{dts|1999-06-04|format=dmy}} | Paul Godfrey | David K S Tse and Jennifer Lim | In June 1989 thousands of students gathered in Tiananmen Square demanding change. In this drama, citizens of Beijing add their support as the students stage a hunger strike. Unless the students agree to evacuate the square, the military will be drafted in. On 4 June 1989, time runs out for the students. | BBC Radio 4 Friday Play[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r5p8 BBC – Friday Play] |
id="Nicholas Nickleby"
| {{dts|1999-10-25|format=dmy}} – {{dts|1999-12-03|format=dmy}} | Nicholas NicklebyDirected by Marilyn Imrie and Jeremy Mortimer[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007js0q BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Nicholas Nickleby] | Charles Dickens dramatised by Mike Walker and Georgia Pritchett | Oliver Milburn, Alex Jennings, Nicola Radcliffe, Ken Campbell, Anna Massey, Richard Johnson, Tom Baker and David Bamber | The story is of Nicholas's triumph against adversity: he defeats his wicked Uncle Ralph and the loathsome Squeers in order to carve out a life for himself, his family and the pitiful boy, Smike. Eventually he wins the hand of a beautiful girl, Madeline Bray. | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy2s BBC – Woman's Hour Drama] |
id="Philomel Cottage"
| {{dts|2002-01-14|format=dmy}} | Philomel Cottage[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jz7jj BBC – Agatha Christie – Philomel Cottage] | Agatha Christie updated and dramatised by Mike Walker | Lizzie McInnerny, Tom Hollander, Adam Godley and Struan Rodger | When Alex meets Terry she is swept off her feet. He persuades her to leave her job and set up a business with him. |
id="The Case of the Perfect Carer"
| {{dts|2003-03-17|format=dmy}} | The Case of the Perfect Carer | Agatha Christie dramatised by Mike Walker | Richenda Carey, Joanna Monro, Carla Simpson, Richard Firth and Joan O'NormanJoan O'Norman was included in the cast credits but is an anagram of Joanna Monro used to conceal one "character" being a disguise | Renting a flat to elderly sisters in a converted dower house should be a simple job for an estate agent, but Kate finds Bernice anything but easy. |
id="David Copperfield"
| {{dts|2005-12-05|format=dmy}} – {{dts|2005-12-30|format=dmy}} | David CopperfieldDirected by Jeremy Mortimer and Mary Peate | Charles Dickens adapted by Mike Walker | Robert Glenister, Michael Legge, Gerard McDermott, Deborah Findlay, Colleen Prendergast, Susan Jameson, Amy Marston, Harry Myers, Paul Bradley, Richard Firth, Geoffrey Whitehead, Adrian Scarborough, Shaun Dingwall, Diana Quick, Eve Best, Emily Wachter, Flaminia Cinque, Nicholas Le Prevost, Alex Tregear, Carl Prekopp, Geoffrey Streatfield, Joanne Froggatt, Helen Longworth, Selina Griffith and Steven Williams | A new dramatisation of the semi-autobiographical novel which Dickens called "his favourite child". |
id="The Pattern of Painful Adventures"
| {{dts|2008-11-23|format=dmy}} | The Pattern of Painful Adventures[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fmdbx BBC – Drama on 3 – The Pattern of Painful Adventures] | Antony Sher, Will Keen, Stephen Critchlow, Chris Pavlo, Helen Longworth, John Rowe, Robert Lonsdale and Joseph Kloska | It is 1607 and Shakespeare's life is at a turning point. Business is going well, but the playwright urgently needs a collaborator for his latest play. His daughter is getting married. His brother has a sick child and is in need of a job. | BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnwj BBC – Drama On 3] |
id="The Time Machine"
| {{dts|2009-02-22|format=dmy}} | The Time Machine[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hr4hq BBC – Drama on 3 – The Time Machine] | H. G. Wells dramatised by Philip Osment | Robert Glenister, William Gaunt, Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes, Stephen Critchlow, Chris Pavlo, Manjeet Mann, Jill Cardo, Robert Lonsdale, Inam Mirza and Dan Starkey | H. G. Wells' classic story of a time-traveller's journey to the future, where mankind has diverged into two species – the Eloi and the Morlocks. | BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 |
id="A Tale of Two Cities"
| {{dts|2011-12-26|format=dmy}} – {{dts|2011-12-30|format=dmy}} | A Tale of Two CitiesDirected by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018g3n8 BBC – Afternoon Play – A Tale of Two Cities] | Charles Dickens dramatised in five parts by Mike Walker | Robert Lindsay, Jonathan Coy, Alison Steadman, Karl Johnson, Lydia Wilson, Andrew Scott, Paul Ready, James Lailey, Tracy Wiles, Simon Bubb, Carl Prekopp, Adjoa Andoh, Daniel Cooper, Clive Merrison, Gerard McDermott, Paul Moriarty, Christopher Webster, Adam Billington, Rikki Lawton and Alex Rivers | In London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, these five episodes show the plight of the French people under the brutal oppression of the aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality of the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the years immediately following. |
id="The Count of Monte Cristo"
| {{dts|2012-11-25|format=dmy}} – {{dts|2012-12-17|format=dmy}} | The Count of Monte CristoDirected by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p0680 BBC – Classic Serial – The Count of Monte Cristo] | Alexandre Dumas dramatized in four parts by Sebastian Baczkiewicz | Iain Glen, Jane Lapotaire, Paul Rhys, Toby Jones, Josette Simon, Richard Johnson, Zubin Varla, Robert Blythe, Amber Rose Revah, Kate Fleetwood, Stephanie Racine, Will Howard and Adam Nagaitis | It is 1838. The Count of Monte Cristo has arrived in Paris. Baron Danglars, Gerard de Villefort and Fernand de Morcerf have no idea that Edmond Dantes, who they betrayed in Marseilles a quarter of a century earlier, is plotting to destroy them. |
2017
|[https://www.deeptimewalk.org Deep Time Walk] |Peter Oswald and Stephan Harding |Chipo Chung, Paul Hilton, Peter Marinker |A Scientist is lost, alone, somewhere in the distant present. She feels she has run out of answers, her way of working and her kind of knowledge, misused by the world, seems to destroy all it touches. Someone approaches her – a Fool, escaped out of a Shakespeare play perhaps, a holy joker. He offers to walk with her from the formation of the Earth to the present, to see if they can find anything out that will change things. They take one great step back and then start walking forwards, from the clumping together of the material of the Earth, through the long ages of the evolution of bacteria. As they go, the Scientist explains to the Fool the scientific meaning of the wonders he is seeing. Best Mobile App award, Script nominated for Ted Hughes Award. |N/A |
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Sources:
- [http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/jeremymortimer.html Jeremy Mortimer's radio play listing at Diversity website]
- [http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/candc/m/mo/mortimer_jeremy.html Jeremy Mortimer's radio play listing at RadioListings website]