The background and the work -- Early stage plays: playing games -- Early radio plays -- Early TV plays -- Detective stories -- 'Thou shalt not kill' -- What did you do in the Great War? -- A knickers farce and tribute to America -- Ethics and politics in eastern Europe -- African naturalism -- Language and Czech censorship -- Writing about love -- Adaptations -- Later radio and TV -- Triple twinning -- Discovering the past and predicting the future -- From radio to stage -- Scholarship and poetry -- Film scripts -- Theatre views: director, actor and author -- Academic criticism and Stoppard -- A note on character and dialogue.