Jules Horne#Small Blue Thing
{{short description|Scottish playwright, radio dramatist and writer}}
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| name = Jules Horne
| birth_date = 1963
| birth_place = Hawick, Scotland
| occupation = playwright, radio dramatist and fiction writer
| nationality = Scottish
}}
Jules Horne (born 1963) is a Scottish playwright, radio dramatist and fiction writer.
Jules Horne was born in Hawick, Scotland, and lived in Bonn, Bern and Reading before returning to the Scottish Borders. Following a German degree at Oxford, she worked in Germany and Switzerland as a translator, editor and BBC Radio journalist. She returned to the UK in 2000 to write full-time.
Jules was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 2001 and the National Library of Scotland Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award in 2002.
Her first full-length play, Gorgeous Avatar, was performed by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 2006, and in Japanese at AI Hall, Itami, Osaka in 2007, and by Heidelberg University's Schauspielgruppe Anglistik in 2008. Plays for radio include Left at the Lights (BBC Radio Scotland), Inner Critic (BBC 7), A Place in the Rain (BBC Radio 4), Overdue South (BBC Radio Scotland), Life: An Audio Tour (BBC Radio 4), Small Blue Thing (BBC Radio Scotland) and Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine (BBC Radio 4). She was the Scottish Arts Council's Virtual Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway from 2005 to 2008, and has taught playwriting in schools as part of the Traverse's Class Act project. She teaches creative writing as an Associate Lecturer at Open University.[http://texthouse.typepad.com/juleshorne/cv-1.html Jules Horne CV] – [http://texthouse.typepad.com TextHouse] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100912001310/http://texthouse.typepad.com/ |date=12 September 2010 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.alanbrodie.com/clients/client_pages/H/Jules_Horne.html |title=Jules Horne biography – Alan Brodie Representation |access-date=23 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424225550/http://www.alanbrodie.com/clients/client_pages/H/Jules_Horne.html |archive-date=24 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}[http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/node/2701/other-work Jules Horne biography – Scottish Book Trust] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404110039/http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/node/2701/other-work |date= 4 April 2012 }}[http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/horne-jules.html Jules Horne biography] – [http://www.doollee.com doollee.com][http://www.texthouse.co.uk/about-us Jules Horne biography] – [http://www.texthouse.co.uk TextHouse][http://www.edinburghguide.com/aande/theatre/articles/events/class_act_trav_05.shtml Teen Playwrights Take-Over the Stage – Class Act 2005 – Lorna Lythgoe, Edinburgh Guide, 3 December 2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202205738/http://www.edinburghguide.com/aande/theatre/articles/events/class_act_trav_05.shtml |date= 2 February 2014 }}
Her play Allotment for Nutshell Theatre won a Scotsman Fringe First at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the 2011 Fringe Award by the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts.[http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2883 Revealed: The second round of Scotsman Fringe First winners – Andrew Eaton-Lewis, 19 August 2011][http://www.sustainablepractice.org/2011/09/sustainable-production-award-announced-for-2011-edinburgh-festival-fringe Sustainable Production Award Announced for 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, September 1st, 2011]
Radio Plays
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! colspan=6 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Radio Plays written by Jules Horne |
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! Date first broadcast ! Play ! Director ! class="unsortable" | Cast ! class="unsortable" | Synopsis ! Station |- id="Days of Reckoning: The Christmas Chair" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-04-06}} | Days of Reckoning: The Christmas Chair | | Read by Julie Austin | An old man with Alzheimer's is brought home to spend the festive season with his family. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading |- id="The Hidden Gift: Left at the Lights" | {{dts|format=dmy|2005-12-25}} | {{sortname|The|Hidden Gift: Left at the Lights|nolink=y}} | {{sortname|David Ian|Neville}} | | | BBC Radio Scotland Drama |- id="Fresh Blood: Inner Critic" | {{dts|format=dmy|2006-04-05}} | Fresh Blood: Inner Critic | {{sortname|David Ian|Neville}} | | There's a carping, spiteful wee voice in Danni's ear crushing her spirit. Imaginary or real, can Danni get rid of her all too vicious inner critic? |- id="Island Blue: A Place in the Rain" | {{dts|format=dmy|2006-06-08}} | Island Blue: A Place in the Rain | {{sortname|David Ian|Neville}} | Sarah Collier, Rose McBain, Lucy Paterson and Lesley Hart | Self-made millionaire, Bren, finds more questions than answers in the island's solitude. Shonagh wants to get on the property ladder but will the in-comer spoil her dream? | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama |- id="Kelso – Overdue South" | {{dts|format=dmy|2006-07-13}} | Kelso – Overdue South | {{sortname|Marilyn|Imrie}} | Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch | | BBC Radio Scotland Drama |- id="Life: An Audio Tour" | {{dts|format=dmy|2008-01-30}} | Life: An Audio Tour[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008tp86 BBC – Afternoon Play – Life: An Audio Tour] | {{sortname|Philip|Howard|dab=theatre director}} | Sandy McDade, Edith MacArthur, Lewis Howden and Alex Elliott | Jenny is trying to win Joe back after her disastrous affair. Her unusual strategy is to offer him an audio tour of the small Scottish town of Kelso. |- id="Small Blue Thing" | {{dts|format=dmy|2008-05-14}} | Small Blue Thing[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b8t7d BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Small Blue Thing] | {{sortname|Rosie|Kellagher}} | Clare Waugh, Molly Innes, Isla Cowan and James Mackenzie | An eerie tale of childhood jealousy and possession where a small glass marble seems to have a powerful hold over one young woman's life. | BBC Radio Scotland Drama |- id="Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine" | {{dts|format=dmy|2011-05-19}} | Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01169k5 BBC – Afternoon Play – Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine][http://urstv.com/archives/2011/05/16/play-on-bike-inventor-macmillan URsTV – Play on Bike Inventor Macmillan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110731113159/http://urstv.com/archives/2011/05/16/play-on-bike-inventor-macmillan/ |date=31 July 2011 }} | {{sortname|Rosie|Kellagher}} | Scott Hoatson, John Kazek, Gabriel Quigley, Gavin Mitchell, Isabella Jarrett and Leo MacNeill | Young Scots country blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan is a man of ideas, like the velocipede – a clanking, pedalled contraption that's the ancestor of the modern bicycle. He cycled from Penpont to Glasgow and committed the world's first cycle crime in 1842. |- |} Theatre |