Out now …
Bill Brand - the screenplays. “The most remarkable serial ever seen on the box” (Sunday Times). This latest volume published by Spokesman Books contains all eleven episodes of Trevor Griffiths’s celebrated 1976 Thames Television series Bill Brand, which was the fictional account of a young left-wing Labour MP entering Parliament for the first time at a time of great political and industrial unrest. The series starred Jack Shepherd as Bill Brand, Arthur Lowe, Alan Badel, Cherie Lunghi and many other distinguished actors. It has never been shown again, nor is it at present commercially available on dvd. This book is therefore a unique record of a unique television event. It is available from www.spokesmanbooks.com.
Coming soon …
Spokesman Books are planning to publish more of Trevor Griffiths’s screenplays in the future, including
COMRADES - his first-draft screenplay of the Oscar-winning film REDS about John Reed, Louise Bryant and the Russian Revolution;
BILL BRAND - the 1976 television series about a young left-wing Labour MP; and
MARCH TIME - an unproduced screenplay covering the years from the Jarrow March to Thatcher.
Theatre Plays One
Published by Spokesman Books in 2007 (www.spokesmanbooks.com)
The first volume of a new edition of Trevor Griffiths’ collected theatre plays, containing The Wages of Thin, Occupations, Sam Sam, Apricots, Thermidor, The Party, Comedians, The Cherry Orchard.
Theatre Plays Two
Published by Spokesman Books in 2007. (www.spokesmanbooks.com)
This second volume of collected works for the theatre contains plays written from 1981 onwards: Oi for England, Real Dreams, Piano, The Gulf Between Us, Thatcher’s Children, Who Shall Be Happy…? and Camel Station.
These are the Times: A life of Thomas Paine
An original screenplay written for Richard Attenborough but as yet unproduced.
published by Spokesman Books in 2005 (www.spokesmanbooks.com)
“I am reading Griffiths with envy and admiration. These Are The Times reads like the greatest of novels and is the most thrilling read I’ve had in years. It is a gorgeous pageant of American idealism, of which we have been starved during the latter half of my lifetime.” Kurt Vonnegut
“Politically searching, dramatically compelling and superbly entertaining, These Are The Times does more to retrieve one of England’s most magnificent radicals than anything that has ever been done before.” Terry Eagleton
“These Are The Times is magnificent, huge, human, an education in history, of course, but also in the human spirit.” Tom Stoppard
“A really major piece of writing which adds new meaning to the notion of the screenplay. It is a classic text, which carries great concerns forward with great humanity.” Troy Kennedy Martin
“see also Radio
Willie and Maud
Unproduced screenplay about W B Yeats and Maud Gonne. Published in the Spokesman Journal no. 98 in 2008. (www.spokesmanbooks.com)
Food for Ravens
Published by Oberon Press in 1998
see also Television and Direction
Hope in the Year Two and Thatcher’s Children
First published by Faber & Faber in 1994
Thatcher’s Children is now published by Spokesman Books in Trevor Griffiths: Theatre Plays Two, in 2007 (www.spokesmanbooks.com)
Hope in the Year Two - see also Television; Thatcher’s Children - see also Theatre
The Gulf Between Us
Full title: The Gulf Between Us, or, The Truth and Other Fictions. 
Published by Spokesman Books in Trevor Griffiths: Theatre Plays Two (2007) (www.spokesmanbooks.com)
First published by Faber & Faber in 1992
Piano
Published by Spokesman Books in Trevor Griffiths: Theatre Plays Two in 2007 (www.spokesmanbooks.com)
First published by Faber & Faber in 1990