Jonathan Maitland was a broadcaster and journalist for 30 years before becoming a playwright. He reported for Radio 4’s Today programme and BBC TV news in the 90s before going on to present and produce factual and documentary TV shows for the BBC and ITV. He has written four plays including 2015’s Dead Sheep, which broke the box office record at London’s Park Theatre and subsequently toured nationally. The follow up An Audience with Jimmy Savile broke the records set by his debut and was called ‘the most talked about play of 2015’. The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson completed a sold out run at Park Theatre in 2018 and toured the UK. His radio play The Rem Co aired on Radio 4 in 2018. He lives in west London.

“The speech was one of the defining moments in modern politics and Jonathan Maitland has had the bright idea of using it as the source for an extremely entertaining play that looks at why the placid-seeming Howe was driven to such unwonted ferocity.”The Guardian

Jonathan Maitland was a broadcaster and journalist for 30 years before becoming a playwright. He reported for Radio 4’s Today programme and BBC TV news in the 90s before going on to present and produce factual and documentary TV shows for the BBC and ITV. He has written four plays including 2015’s Dead Sheep, which broke the box office record at London’s Park Theatre and subsequently toured nationally. The follow up An Audience with Jimmy Savile broke the records set by his debut and was called ‘the most talked about play of 2015’. The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson completed a sold out run at Park Theatre in 2018 and toured the UK. His radio play The Rem Co aired on Radio 4 in 2018. He lives in west London.

“The speech was one of the defining moments in modern politics and Jonathan Maitland has had the bright idea of using it as the source for an extremely entertaining play that looks at why the placid-seeming Howe was driven to such unwonted ferocity.”The Guardian