Jessica Ruston was inspired by something she heard and has just sold a serial based on it.
They are polyphonic and serial, based on 'key-words' said to function like Schoenbergian tone-rows.
In the mid-90s, the BBC invited me to write a four-part television serial based on the story.
Also a writer for magazines, Adair was sitting in the offices of Woman's Own waiting to deliver a feature when she had the idea for Compact (1962-65), a serial based in the world of magazine publishing.
With his help she began to work as a television script-reader and wrote a six-part serial based on John Buchan's Huntingtower, before stopping work to see their two children through their early years.
This autumn, the BBC's drama serial based on Vasily Grossman's epic novel of Stalingrad, Life and Fate (1959), comes to Radio 4. It will have a starry cast, including Kenneth Branagh as the nuclear physicist Viktor Shtrum – the nearest thing in the vast human ensemble of the book to an alter ego for Grossman himself.
A few months later, she and I were watching a serial based on the Hindu epic the Mahabharata, in which Queen Draupadi vowed to leave her hair disheveled until she could tie it up with hands dripping with her enemy's blood, a pronouncement that led to a great war, much as Helen's marriage to Paris had caused the Trojan War.
As the honest and moral Dr Michael Rossi Nelson was keeper of the small-town secrets in the serial based on Grace Metalious's scandal-filled 1956 book, which was banned in Canada and some American states but was still the 20th century's biggest-selling novel at the time.
On 15 April 2010, Channel 4 announced the making of a four-part television serial based on the novel.
For the TV serial based on the novel, see Tipping the Velvet (TV serial) Tipping the Velvet is a historical novel published as Sarah Waters' debut novel in 1998.
