Robert Hudson

Robert has written two literary novels, four series of radio comedy with Marie Phillips and numerous plays and musicals for stage and radio. His Magnitsky the Musical, written with Johnny Flynn, won Drama of the Year at the 2021 BBC Audio Drama Awards and was Specially Mentioned at the 2020 Prix Italia. His musicals with Susannah Pearse, Hall of Mirrors and Rossum’s Universal Robots, were both the BBC’s drama of the week, as was his radio play Plane Speaking. Their earlier show, Sherlock Holmes, the Early Years, written with Kate Ferguson and Jared Dembowski, won the Theater in the American Musical prize at the New York Musical Futures festival. His other musicals include Damsel in Distress, written with Jeremy Sams and with songs by George and Ira Gershwin, which was staged at Chichester Festival Theatre, and Wonderland, with songs by Frank Wildhorn, which toured nationally. He’s also told hundreds of stories at festivals around Britain and at the comedy night he runs in North London.

He has worked extensively with the Royal Literary Fund as a fellow and facilitator and has taught at various universities. He consulted with the government over what they should do about the internet in the early 2000s and we can all agree that went brilliant. He was nearly an academic historian and he has reviewed hundreds of works of non-fiction for the Sunday Times, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement and Guardian.