Peter Tegel Radio Plays

Peter Tegel is a playwright and novelist. He has also done a number of translations, some of which have been broadcast. He works for Pier Productions, based in Brighton, a major supplier to BBC Radio 4, which also makes programmes for BBC Television, BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3. (The Company is based in Brighton where it has its own editing suites, studios and production offices.) Richard Wortley, producer of 3,000 radio plays, gives the following information in his "Reflections of a Lifetime in Radio":

Peter Tegel has his multi-focus European background, his dramatic escape from Sudetenland as a Czech-German boy of six, fleeing to Britain from the Nazis with his hat-making mother and Jewish step-father. Next stop the graduate in modern languages from Balliol College, Oxford, then the translator of German and French writers, then the increasing interest in Russian literature and now Board Member of the Pushkin Club. It accounts for a continental flavour to his radio plays but not the masked passages of autobiography. Master race ideology came to the front in his play ‘The Well of Life’ - Caucasian women battery- farmed for breeding purposes.

‘The Happy Depths of A Homophobe’ took in two sun-filled days in the garden of my partner and myself - rented accommodation in Islington - where else? The rueful, elegiac story provided a setting for homosexual yearning and nude male bathing at Hampstead ponds - ah, the flexibility of radio as the cast soaked in the skills of Philip Voss and Derek Jacobi. For those who enjoy the court circular, please note that Mr Jacobi was knighted a month later.

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