Kay McManus
Kay McManus is a writer of radio plays, children's books, and television scripts, including six years working on "Coronation Street".
She has written fourteen radio plays for radio 4, BBC World Service and RTE.
1990 Like it was Monday (RTE)
1988 Dear Diary
1985 Consider her ways (John Wyndham, dram)
1981 Why weren't you looking?
1981 The Last of the Sun
1979 Alice
1977 Countdown
1972 The Search
1970 A key in the door
1966 A Changing Light
1963 Time to Spare (as Kathleen McManus)
1961 Cross my Heart
1957 The Detour
1956 Collector's Piece
Short stories, R4.
Scripts for BBC Schools series "Speak", "Let's Join In", "Something to Think About", etc.
NOTES ON SOME OF THE PLAYS
Like it was Monday....1990
22.8.90. 50m, Radio Telefis Eireann, produced by Aiden C. Matthews.
Dear Diary....1988
13.10.88. 55m, directed by Jane Morgan, with Anna Cropper and Zelah Clarke.
Consider her ways....1985
21.09.85. 60m dramatisation of John Wyndham short story. Producer Gordon House; stars Estelle Kohler.
Why weren't you looking?....1985
10.01.85, 45m. Producer Joan Morgan, with William Hope and David Sinclair.
The Last of the Sun....1981
21.8.81 - With Pauline Letts/Adam Godley. Producer Jane Morgan.
Alice....1979
5.5.79. With Thelma Whiteley/Kathleen Helme/Eva Stuart. Producer Jane Morgan.
Countdown....1977
24.3.77. With Valerie Georgeson/Ursula Smith/David Mahlowe. Producer Robert Cooper.
The Search....1972
29.3.72. With Patience Collier/Elizabeth Proud. Producer Jane Graham.
A key in the door....1970
21.10.70. With Ruth Dunning/Susan Richards/Martin Friend/Sonia Fraser/Derek Seaton. Producer Jane Graham.
A Changing Light....1966
24.12.66 June Tobin/Gudrun Ure/Denys Hawthorne. Producer Jane Graham.
Time to Spare (as Kathleen McManus)....1963
11.12.63. With Margaret Wolfit/Kenneth Hyde/Peter Bartlett. Producer Keith Williams.
Cross my Heart....1961
25m; no other details.
The Detour....1957
05.04.57. 30m. Produced by David Thomson for BBC Features Department.
Collector's Piece....1956
15.12.56. 20m; with Denis Goacher, Betty Linton, Simon Lack. Producer Kenneth Poolman.
NON-RADIO WORK
TELEVISION
Sixty minute play "Once More My Love", Associated Redifusion, 1961
36 episodes of "Coronation Street", Granada TV 1972-1978
"Patty Fatty", thirty minute play, BBC Schools "Scene" series
Eight plays, BBC Jackanory Playhouse series
Abridgements (books and short stories), BBC "Jackanory".
PUBLISHED WORK
Novel: "Listen and I'll Talk", Femina Books, 1969.
Play: "Dear Diary", Kenyon Deane Ltd., 1996.
PUBLISHED WORK FOR CHILDREN
Play "Patty Fatty", Longman imprint series, 1986
Play "Rumpelstiltskin", Scholastic Publications, 1993
"Raven", E.J.Arnold & Son, 1966
"Hattie in a Hurry", E.J.Arnold & Son, 1987
"Tolly on Tuesday", E.J.Arnold & Son, 1988
"The Farnbury Frogs", CUP, 1992
"The Summerhouse", CUP, 1993
"For the time being", CUP, 1993
"Land of the Five Suns", British Museum Press (retelling of Aztec myths for children) 1996
"Tales for the telling" (Fifty short stories for school assemblies), Educational Printing Services, 2004
CO-AUTHORED
With Paul Groves and John Griffon: Three collections of short stories for teenagers: Federal Publications, Singapore, 1993.
