Inspiring Travel Writing from Adrian Mourby

Adrian Mourby is a writer and opera producer. A graduate of Bristol University Film School, he was a producer at the BBC for twelve years, where, amongst other plays and series, he was responsible for the television adaptation of Sir Kingsley Amis' The Old Devils. He won numerous national and international awards [Smith/Kline 1982/ Sony 1985/BAFTA Cymru 1991 /Golden Gate 1993/ / BAFTA Cymru 1993 / Celtic Film Festival 1994/ New York Festivals 1994 / Sony 1995], before turning to full-time writing.

As a travel writer he has written extensively about Turkey, Venice, the Mediterranean, the Pan-Arctic Circle, Africa and the former Eastern Bloc. He has published three novels We Think the World of Him (1996) The Four of Us (1997)and Wishdaughter (2004). In 1994 he wrote the BBC Radio 4 series Whatever Happened to ..? for which he won the Sony Silver Award for Creative Writing on Radio. In 1997, his book "Whatever Happened to ...?" was published with more satiric sequels. He is a prolific programme essayist working in the UK and Europe. His own opera productions include Semele (Malta 2002) Cosi fan tutte (Oxford 2004) Marriage of Figaro (Blewbury Festival 2006). He is also the creator and writer of Tristan and Matilda, a long-running comic strip in Opera Now magazine.

His great love however is travel and especially cultural travel. His next book, an illustrated guide to Venice, will be published later this year.