"Don’t classify me, read me. I'm a writer not a genre." - Carlos Fentes 1988.Graham Rhodes has over 40 years experience in writing scripts, plays, books, articles, creative outlines and numerous other projects. He has created concepts and scripts for broadcast television, audio-visual presentations, computer games, film & video productions, web sites, audio-tape, interactive laser-disc, CD-ROM, animations, conferences, multi-media presentations and theatres. His words have been spoken by such actors as Chris Barrie; Dame Judy Dench, Michael Williams, Christopher Fairbanks; Timothy Spall; Ian Carmichael, Carol Vordeman; Trevor McDonald; Carol Barnes, Harry Gration and even Richard Whitely. He has created two successful series broadcast on BBC Radio York and had articles published by such diverse magazines as “What Camcorder”, “The Yorkshire Journal”, "Entertainment" Magazine and "UP For It" magazine.His main writing background is the creation of specialised scripts for major corporate clients with numerous Training, Corporate, and Marketing projects to his credit having created scripts and programmes for such clients Coca-Cola, British Aerospace, British Rail, The Co-operative Bank, Bass, Yorkshire Water, York City Council, Provident Finance, Yorkshire Forward, among many others. He still writes corporate scripts via the Upwork web site.His knowledge of history has also helped in the creation of a number of heritage-based programmes that can be seen in museums and visitor centres throughout the country. They include The Merseyside Museum, The Jorvik Viking Centre, The Scottish Museum of Antiquities, The Bar Convent Museum of Church History. He has also written scripts for three broadcast television documentaries, a religious series broadcast by Yorkshire Television, a Beatrix Potter Documentary for Chameleon Films, and a documentary about drug-related sexual abuse for the Roofie Foundation. He has also written three film scripts, The Rebel Buccaneer, William and Harold 1066, and Rescue (A story of the Whitby Lifeboat) all currently looking for an interested party. He has had numerous stage plays performed by Scarborough’s Valley Theatre Company, unfortunately now defunct, that performed in small venues and pubs throughout Yorkshire. His play “Rambling Boy” was staged at Newcastle’s Live Theatre in 2003, starring Newcastle musician Martin Stephenson, whilst his play “Chasing The Hard-Backed, Black Beetle” won the best drama award at the Northern Stage of the All England Theatre Festival and was performed at the Ilkley Literature Festival. Other work has received staged readings at The West Yorkshire Playhouse, been shortlisted at the Drama Association of Wales, and at the Liverpool Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. He also wrote dialogue and storylines for THQ, one of America’s biggest games companies, for “X-Beyond the Frontier” and “Yager” both winners of European Game of the Year Awards. he also wrote the dialogue for Alan Hanson’s Football Game (Codemasters), Joan of Arc (Elite), and many others. He currently is still writing for the games industry via the Upwork web site Live performance of his poetry van be found on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGarhodesHe has written a number of self-published books. "Footprints in the Mud of Time, The Alternative Story of York" "A Visual History of York" "Leeds Visible History" "More Poems about Sex'n Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll" Out of Print “The York Sketch Book.” Out of Print "The Jazz Detective." “The View from Inside The Pink Monster” (personal history of his life in London 1975-78)"The Collected Poems 1971-2017""The Collected Poems 2016-2020""The Collected Poems 2020 - 2022 The Covid Years."The Agnes the Scarborough Witch Series "A Witch, Her Cat, And A Pirate.""A Witch her Cat and the Ship Wreckers.""A Witch her Cat and the Devil Dogs.""A Witch her Cat and a Viking Hoard.""A Witch Her Cat and The Whistler." "A Witch her Cat and the Vampires.""A Witch her Cat and the Moon People.""A Witch her Cat and a Fire Demon.""A Witch her Cat and a Revolution""A Witch her Cat and an Alchemist." Photographic Books - "Harbourside - Scarborough Harbour (A book of photographs available via Blurb)"Lost Bicycles (A book of photographs or deserted and lost bicycles available via Blurb)"Trains of The North Yorkshire Moors (A Book of photographs of the engines of the NYMR available via Blurb)Read more about this authorRead less about this author