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University of Wales.
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Adrian Mourby
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A graduate of the University of Wales, Lampeter and Bristol University Film School, he was a producer at the British Broadcasting Corporation for twelve years, where, amongst other series, he produced a television adaptation of Sir Kingsley Amis" The Old Devils. He has published numerous novels, including We Think the World of Him (1996) The Four of Us (1997) Wishdaughter (2004) and "Islands in the Desert" (2012). He wrote the 1994 British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 series Whatever Happened to.? In 1997, his book "Whatever Happened to.?: The Ultimate Sequels Book" was published with more such tales.
He is a prolific programme essayist working in the United Kingdom and Europe.
His own opera productions include Semele (Malta 2002) Cosi fan tutte (Oxford 2004) Marriage of Figaro (Blewbury Festival 2006). He was also the creator and writer of Tristan and Matilda, a long-running comic strip in Opera Now magazine.
Adrian has also written Associate of Arts guides to Venice, Brussels and Bruges and contributed to various Dorling Kindersley travel guides.
Achievements
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Foreign these productions, he won numerous national and international awards, before turning to full-time writing and broadcasting. About the further adventures of various fictional characters, for which he won the Sony Silver Award for Creative Writing on Radio. In 2007 Adrian was awarded the Special Award for Opera Journalism by the Fondazione Festival Pucciniamo, Italy. In 2010 he was one of the finalists for United Kingdom Travel Journalist of the Year and in 2013 won the award for Best Travel Article in a Magazine (Italian Tourist Board).
