Rob Gittins – författare

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation on the writer and poet Dylan Thomas. Based on a true story, Rob Gittins''s play draws on archive material. When ''Time'' magazine printed a warts-and-all article about Dylan Thomas in 1953, the poet sued them for libel. Needing to gather more evidence, the magazine hired a private detective to shadow Thomas in New York. Stars Trevor White as the detective and Doug Ballard as the editor, also with a cast including Genevieve Adam, Laurel Lefkow, Rhys Parry Jones and Richard Elfyn.

Shelter Me completes the trilogy begun by tense thrillers Gimme Shelter and Secret Shelter, revealing the dramatic conclusion to the gripping story of Ros Gilet. Her family having been suddenly propelled into witness protection after violent events when she was a child, now in her 20s Ros is herself a Witness Protection Officer. However, the organisation her family testified against two decades earlier has succeeded in tracking down and killing her father, a message left in his blood also promising her own imminent death. Shelter Me picks up the story, with a new case of familicide uncovering links to one of the key figures in the original murder case that sent Ros into witness protection – a man long presumed dead. Ros finally discovers the truth behind what happened to her family and a reveals a treacherous case of deception and corruption in the very police force she now works for. As the story draws inexorably towards its bloody end, Ros is driven to contemplate a final, deadlyrevenge.