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Wednesday, 7 May 2025

CrimeFest: Lights! Camera! Murder: Adapting for Film and TV.

  Sunday, 18 May 2025

10:40 - 11:40

The panel are Chris Chibnall, Barbara Nadel,
Barry Ryan, Matthew Sweet, 

and the participating Moderator is Lee Child. 

Chris Chibnall
is a BAFTA, Royal Television Society, Broadcasting Press Guild and Peabody award-winning screenwriter, executive producer, and playwright whose work has been seen, translated and remade all around the world. His television work includes Broadchurch – remade as Gracepoint in the US and Malaterra in France – The Great Train Robbery, Doctor Who, Torchwood and Life on Mars. Death at the White Hart is his debut novel.

Barbara Nadel
is the author of the Cetin Ikmen series of crime novels, adapted for TV as The Turkish Detective on BBC2. She also writes the Hakim and Arnold crime fiction series, set in east London. Her latest Ikmen book, The Wooden Library is due to be published in May 2025 while her most recent Hakim and Arnold, The Golem of East Ham, was published in February 2025.
Contact @barbaranadel.bsky.social 

Barry Ryan has been in television for an eternity. Co-founder of Free@Last TV, he has produced across the genre for most of the major channels including ITV’s Martina Cole's Ladykillers. He is joint showrunner of Agatha Raisin for Sky TV. More adaptations are in the works including Cathy Ace's Cait Morgan mysteries, Simon Brett's wonderful Charles Paris novels, Ian Moore's signature Follett Valley books and Tom Benjamin's Daniel Leicester series. He is addicted to books, television and laughter. 

Matthew Sweet is co-writer, with Mark Gatiss, of Bookish. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians, Shepperton Babylon, The West End Front and Operation Chaos. He has a twenty-five year career in radio and television, and he has been film critic of the Independent on Sunday, photography critic of Newsweek and fashion columnist for 1843/The Economist. His crime novel The New Forest Murders and his biography The Great Dictator: The Life of Barbara Cartland are forthcoming. 

Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the recipient of many. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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