Julian Simpson is a British writer and director working in film, television and radio. He is best known for his plays for BBC Radio, most of which take place within his “Pleasant Green” universe with loose connections to each other. Some of his most frequent audio collaborators include actors Nicola Walker, Robert Glenister, Tim McInnerny, Phoebe Fox and producer Karen Rose.

Fragments – Teenager Kelly and her parents move to Pleasant Green, an exclusive village 40 minutes from London. They are a nice, ordinary family with plenty of money. She has a good education and has never been in trouble. But two months later she has murdered a 70-year-old retired Royal Marine. Why?

The Listener – A psychological thriller about a man trying to uncover his true identity, set against the backdrop of a war on terror. If we don’t remember our past, can we really know who we are?

Bad Memories – In 2004, a successful architect and his family mysteriously disappear from their home. Six years later five bodies are found in the cellar of the house. They are identified as Jonathan and Imogen Blake and their son, Matthew; Philip Gibson, who was on the missing person’s register and a woman, identity unknown. Forensics determine that not only were they murdered, but the time of death was1926. Can audio files found with the bodies solve the mystery?

Kokomo – A single act of cyber-terrorism. A computer virus – incredibly advanced and coded in a language no one understands – is released onto the internet, encrypting every piece of information held on every system. All information is being held hostage. Alice Price is sent in to negotiate the safe return of the information before the world descends into chaos. But who are the terrorists and why have they asked for Price?

Fugue State – In a specialist residential hospital, a man – a government agent – is in a fugue state – a psychological shutdown – the result of something seemingly threatening that has taken place in a remote village in the heart of the English countryside. Needing to act before the situation escalates and believing the patient can still hear, Doctor Fallon uses sound recordings to recreate events leading up to the point of shutdown, to prompt the patient’s brain into remembering what has happened.

A Time To Dance – In July 1518 a terrifying and mysterious ‘dancing’ plague struck the medieval city of Strasbourg. By the time the epidemic subsided, heat and exhaustion had claimed many lives, leaving thousands bewildered and bereaved. The South Bank, London in 2011. Is it happening again?
With Robin Lustig, Jim Libby, Jana Carpenter, Tom Salinsky, Deborah Frances White, Matt Banister, Jessica Pidsley and Jessica Regan.

Blackout – “Yesterday was the day when the phones stopped working.” But the phones are only the start, as London is plunged into an internet and power blackout. A woman starts a diary of the first days as she watches first the infrastructure and then the civilisation of her city begin to collapse.