Brian Sibley (born 14 July 1949) is a British writer whose work includes radio plays, radio series, documentaries, as well as a variety of books. He is most famous for his radio adaptations of fantasy literature, particularly The Lord of the Rings. He won a Sony Award in 1985 for his dramatization of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast.
Biography
Born Brian David Sibley in Wandsworth, London, the son of Eric George Sibley an architectural draughtsman and Doris Alice Sibley (née Summers). His family moved to Chislehurst, Kent when he was five years old. He was educated at St Nicholas Church of England Primary School and Chislehusrt Secondary School for Boys (later re-named Edgebury School for Boys), where he amused many small boys with his impersonations of teaching staff members in particular “Killer Edwards”.
Following frustrated ambitions to be an actor, cartoonist and animator, Sibley worked first in various clerical capacities for the London Borough of Bromley and then for a shipping and finance company in London as a clerk, office manager and head of department. In his spare time, he began submitting scripts to the BBC and, when his company was taken over, he accepted redundancy and became a full-time freelance writer.
He lives in London with his partner, a magician.
Radio Plays
- The Wonderful O (1978)
- The Lord of the Rings (1981)
- The Thirty-First of June (1983)
- Titus Groan (1984)
- Gormenghast (1984)
- The Night of the New Moon (1988)
- Miss Hargreaves (1989)
- The Chronicles of Narnia ()
- Tales from the Perilous Realm (1992)
- A Matter of Honor ()
- The Little World of Don Camillo ()
- The Woodland Gospels ()
- The Fox at the Manger (1990)
- The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King ()
- The Next in Line ()
- Tales of the Bizarre ()
- More Tales of the Bizarre ()
- Great Murder Trials ()
- The Children of Green Knowe ()
- Danny, the Champion of the World (1999)
- Three Charades for Christmas ()
- Priestland's Progress ()
- A Birthday at Bethlehem ()
- Thora Hird's Special Occasion ()
- The Last in the Present Series ()
- Parodies Lost ()
- The Pilgrim's Progress (2004)
- The Northern Irish Man in C.S. Lewis (2004)
- It's Too Late Now (2006)
- The History of Titus Groan (2011)[3]