Episodes

An empty city centre and railway station. No people and no activity. Suddenly, a camera drone appears. A story of surveillance, suspicion, social contact and surprise. This is the third and final in our series of short story “Lockdown Squibs” that dramatise different aspects and impacts of the pandemic virus. I and the writer really do appreciate your constructive feedback. Just email me at peoplescope@aol.com. Contacts: Twitter - twitter.com/peoplescope Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pr...

All is not well for a USS submarine crew as they hear of a virus affecting the world above. Long term confined isolation leads to strife and conflict. Will they survive and make it to dry land? If they do, what will they find? This is the second in a series of three short story “Lockdown Squibs” that dramatise different aspects and impacts of the pandemic. I and the writer really do appreciate your constructive feedback. Just email me at peoplescope@aol.com. Contacts: Twitter - twitter.com/pe...

The social and economic impact of lockdown hits a man hard. He has lost his job. Coping with the fall-out of this and trying to just survive has taken him to the edge. But a blackbird offers a glimmer of hope. This is the first in a series of three short story “Lockdown Squibs” that dramatise different aspects and impacts of the pandemic virus. This squib draws on material contained in the BBC programme “Your call is important to us - new claimants tell us about their lives on hold”, Monday Jun...

In this second and final episode, George Smarden Dike redoubles his efforts to extract money from the artist J M W Turner, this time through blackmail. Turner is faced with a dilemma: losing one of his paintings or jeopardising his most important private relationship. He has little time, but comes up with a plan. But will it work? I and the writer really do appreciate your constructive feedback. Just email me at peoplescope@aol.com. Contacts: Twitter - twitter.com/peoplescope Instagram - http...

Turner’s Gift is a fictional story in two parts, recounting a dramatic series of events in the late life of the celebrated English artist, J M W Turner. It is based significantly but not entirely on real aspects of his existence. In Part 1, Turner - recovering from serious illness – receives two visitors at his London studios. One is a potential assistant, Francis Sherrell, who Turner then takes on and who proves to have an immediate, positive influence on the artist’s motivation. The other vi...

This is a distinctly different, American gangster story. Mobster Louis Gainsborough meets glamorous Dolores (FBI Agent Cody in disguise) in the bar owned by his criminal rival Frank Schulz.....except that these characters continually interrupt the imagination of the writer as he creates this story. Louis gets to choose his own name. Feisty Dolores decides what she will and won't do and say. Meanwhile, the action moves atmospherically towards its double crossing and surprisingly murderous end. ...

Andrew lies in a hospital bed in mental decline. Memory flits in and out of the past as he tries to remember old actors, movies, Shakespeare, football players. He is visited by younger brother Tom, back from abroad, who he does not initially recognise. They relive old times - visits to the cinema, the pub, paper doilies - and begin to remake the connections of a relationship. We really do appreciate constructive feedback about this story. Just email peoplescope@aol.com.

The excitement of a family trip to a Beatles tribute concert is disrupted by an encounter with a loud, aggressive man with a grey poneytail. Tensions rise and a vicious punch is thrown. But the tables soon turn seriously for the perpetrator.

Underneath the blankets, a young mind damaged by parental abuse is heroically protected by Dan "The Teddynator" - his one-eyed toy. And slowly healed in adulthood by a kindly, patient therapist.