About Alan Connor
Books: The freshest is 188 Words for Rain, of which I’m very proud. 
And we are, I think, two thirds through the trilogy —
- Part II: The Joy of Quiz [Penguin]
- Part I: Two Girls, One On Each Knee (7): The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword UK [Penguin]; The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief America [Gotham]
Film: Lionel Bart biopic in development – previously: Borat II; BBC Films snooker biopic The Rack Pack
A Young Doctor’s Notebook: a Guardian piece on how we adapted Bulgakov’s stories for the Daniel Radcliffe / Jon Hamm comedy-drama
Other telly [Emmy nom]: presenter: the Word, the Big Breakfast, the Daily Politics, etc;
scriptwriter: Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back, Respectable, The Pooters, etc;
writer: the Charlie Brooker Wipe series, Have I Got News For You, The Reluctant Traveler, the Jonathan Ross Show, This Week, etc etc [other TV] [other journalism]
Quiz [Bafta nom]: question editor, Only Connect, Richard Osman’s House of Games;
my book on why we do this at all, etc etc etc [more]
Music writing for BBC: Why Nick Drake is not the patron saint of the miserable; Torture chamber music; Secrets of writing a ‘wallpaper’ hit; Britain’s favourite funeral music; What is a ‘guilty pleasure’?; The Unswinging Sixties etc and me on individual songs
Crosswords: my puzzles; my book; my column; Radio 4 profile
The slides of the talks I gave to the Entertainment Masterclass: Who’s Pitching To Whom And Why (…And Also How)? – The Future For Pitching Comedy In The UK: Brighter, Faster, More Confusing and/or “Not That I’m Saying It’s Traditional” – The Stigma Against The ‘Traditional’ In British Sitcoms
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