# Jules Horne

Jules Horne (born 1963) is a Scottish playwright, radio dramatist and fiction writer.
Jules Horne was born in Hawick, Scotland, and lived in Bonn, Bern and Reading before returning to the Scottish Borders. Following a German degree at Oxford, she worked in Germany and Switzerland as a translator, editor and BBC Radio journalist. She returned to the UK in 2000 to write full-time.
Jules was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 2001 and the National Library of Scotland Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award in 2002.
Her first full-length play, Gorgeous Avatar, was performed by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 2006, and in Japanese at AI Hall, Itami, Osaka in 2007, and by Heidelberg University's Schauspielgruppe Anglistik in 2008. Plays for radio include Left at the Lights (BBC Radio Scotland), Inner Critic (BBC 7), A Place in the Rain (BBC Radio 4), Overdue South (BBC Radio Scotland), Life: An Audio Tour (BBC Radio 4), Small Blue Thing (BBC Radio Scotland) and Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine (BBC Radio 4). She was the Scottish Arts Council's Virtual Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway from 2005 to 2008, and has taught playwriting in schools as part of the Traverse's Class Act project. She teaches creative writing as an Associate Lecturer at Open University.
Her play Allotment for Nutshell Theatre won a Scotsman Fringe First at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the 2011 Fringe Award by the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts.

## Radio Plays

Radio Plays written by Jules Horne :
| Date first broadcast | Play | Director | Cast | Synopsis Awards | Station Series |
| 6 April 2005 | Days of Reckoning: The Christmas Chair | | Read by Julie Austin | An old man with Alzheimer's is brought home to spend the festive season with his family. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading |
| 25 December 2005 | The Hidden Gift: Left at the Lights | David Ian Neville | | | BBC Radio Scotland Drama |
| 5 April 2006 | Fresh Blood: Inner Critic | David Ian Neville | | There's a carping, spiteful wee voice in Danni's ear crushing her spirit. Imaginary or real, can Danni get rid of her all too vicious inner critic? | BBC Radio 7 |
| 8 June 2006 | Island Blue: A Place in the Rain | David Ian Neville | Sarah Collier, Rose McBain, Lucy Paterson and Lesley Hart | Self-made millionaire, Bren, finds more questions than answers in the island's solitude. Shonagh wants to get on the property ladder but will the in-comer spoil her dream? | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama |
| 13 July 2006 | Kelso – Overdue South | Marilyn Imrie | Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch Music by Gavin Marwick | | BBC Radio Scotland Drama |
| 30 January 2008 | Life: An Audio Tour | Philip Howard | Sandy McDade, Edith MacArthur, Lewis Howden and Alex Elliott | Jenny is trying to win Joe back after her disastrous affair. Her unusual strategy is to offer him an audio tour of the small Scottish town of Kelso. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |
| 14 May 2008 | Small Blue Thing | Rosie Kellagher | Clare Waugh, Molly Innes, Isla Cowan and James Mackenzie | An eerie tale of childhood jealousy and possession where a small glass marble seems to have a powerful hold over one young woman's life. | BBC Radio Scotland Drama |
| 19 May 2011 | Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine | Rosie Kellagher | Scott Hoatson, John Kazek, Gabriel Quigley, Gavin Mitchell, Isabella Jarrett and Leo MacNeill | Young Scots country blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan is a man of ideas, like the velocipede – a clanking, pedalled contraption that's the ancestor of the modern bicycle. He cycled from Penpont to Glasgow and committed the world's first cycle crime in 1842. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play |

## Theatre

Tour :
| Stage plays written by Jules Horne |||||||
| Date | Title | Director | Cast | Synopsis | Company / Theatre | Notes |
| 17 May 2001 – 2 June 2001 | Borders Fusion: Pawkie Paitterson's Auld Grey Yaud | Stewart Aitken | Simon Crouch, Matthew Burgess and Kathleen Quinn | Based on a traditional poem, which finds an ageing horse setting out its last will and testament. | Cross Country Theatre Company Tour 17 May 2001 Denholm Village Hall 2 June 2001The Wynd Theatre Melrose | |
| 7 June 2001 – 9 June 2001 | Borders Fusion: Pawkie Paitterson's Auld Grey Yaud | Stewart Aitken | Simon Crouch, Matthew Burgess and Kathleen Quinn | Based on a traditional poem, which finds an ageing horse setting out its last will and testament. | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | |
| 2002 – | Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher | Judy Steel | | | Rowan Tree Theatre | |
| 9 May 2006 – 20 May 2006 | Gorgeous Avatar | Philip Howard | Pauline Knowles, Una McLean, Patrick Hoffman and John Kazek | Amy enjoys her isolation in a small Borders town, glued to her laptop and conducting her work, shopping and a long-distance relationship via the internet – but the real world catches up with her when her American internet beau gets on a plane to visit. | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | |
| 23 May 2006 – 10 June 2006 | Gorgeous Avatar | Philip Howard | Pauline Knowles, Una McLean, Patrick Hoffman and John Kazek | Amy enjoys her isolation in a small Borders town, glued to her laptop and conducting her work, shopping and a long-distance relationship via the internet – but the real world catches up with her when her American internet beau gets on a plane to visit. | Tour 23 May 2006Yetholm Wauchope Hall 24 May 2006Galashiels Volunteer Hall 25 May 2006Carlops Village Hall 29 May 2006Dumfries Theatre Royal 31 May 2006Ballachulish Village Hall 2 June 2006Stornoway, Isle of Lewis An Lanntair 5 June 2006Achiltibuie Coigach Community Hall 6 June 2006Ullapool Macphail Theatre 8 June 2006Strathpeffer Pavilion 10 June 2006 Isle of Skye Sabhal Mor Ostaig | |
| 2006 – | Overdue South | Marilyn Imrie | Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch | | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | |
| 8 May 2009 – 24 May 2009 | The Devil on Wheels | Kate Nelson | Fraser Boyle | Monologue celebrating the life and heritage of Kirkpatrick Macmillan, the Dumfriesshire blacksmith who invented the pedal bicycle, centres on Macmillan's appearance in a Glasgow court where he was charged with dangerous driving and knocking down a young girl while riding his new pedal bicycle through the Gorbals in 1842. | Nutshell Theatre Tour Dumfries & Galloway tour, May 2009 8 May 2009Penpont Primary School Festival Café at DG One Dumfries Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre Dumfries 23–24 May 2009 Drumlanrig Castle | Created for the Scottish Forestry Commission for The World Mountain Bike Conference and Original Bicycle Festival |
| 8 October 2010 – 14 November 2010 | The Wife of Usher's Well | Stefan Escreet | Helen Longworth, Danny Kennedy, Andrew Whitehead and Ruth Tapp | | Quondam Theatre Tour 8 October 2010Ferguson Hall Belford, Northumberland 9 October 2010Pegswood Community Project Northumberland 13 October 2010Bishop Auckland Town Hall 14 October 2010Eastriggs Social Club 15–16 October 2010 Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association 19 October 2010The Brindley Runcorn 20 October 2010Residency Heart of Hawick 21 October 2010Heart of Hawick 22 October 2010Bowhill Theatre Selkirk, Scottish Borders 23 October 2010The Wynd Theatre Melrose 26 October 2010Tithe Barn Carlisle 27 October 2010Plumbland Village Hall Cumbria 28 October 2010Ireby Globe Hall Cumbria 29 October 2010Brigham Memorial Hall Cumbria 2010Haile Village Hall Cumbria 2 November 2010Talbot Theatre Whitchurch, Shropshire 3 November 2010Bowes & Gilmonby Parish Hall Durham 4 November 2010Appleby-in-Westmorland Public Hall 5 November 2010Lacey Thompson Hall Hallbankgate 6 November 2010Askham Village Hall Cumbria 7 November 2010Nicholforest Village Hall Penton Cumbria 10 November 2010Anslow Village Hall 11 November 2010Hurley Village Hall Warwickshire 12 November 2010Gilbert Sheldon Hall Stanton, Staffordshire 13 November 2010Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall Holloway, Derbyshire 14 November 2010St Anne's Church Hall Wendover | Supported by Arts Council England |
| 8 August 2011 – 28 August 2011 | Allotment | Kate Nelson | Pauline Goldsmith and Nicola Jo Cully | | Nutshell Theatre / Assembly: Inverleith Allotments, Edinburgh | |
| 3 August 2012 – 26 August 2012 | Thread | Kate Nelson | Mary Gapinski, Claire Dargo and Stephen Docherty | | Nutshell Theatre | |
| 20 September 2013 – 19 October 2013 | Thread | Kate Nelson | Gowan Calder, Nicola Jo Cully and Stephen Docherty | | Tour 20–21 Sept Tron Theatre, Glasgow 25 SeptBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh 28 SeptWigtown Book Festival, Wigtown 8 OctNew Pitsligo Hall, New Pitsligo 11 OctStracathro Hall, by Edzell 12 OctCrathes Hall, Crathes 17 OctBirnam Arts Centre, Birnam 18 OctPaisley Arts Centre, Paisley 19 OctCorrie Hall, Isle of Arran | |
| 27 January 2018 | Handfast | Kate Nelson | Nicola Jo Cully, Joanna Holden, Robin Laing, Victoria Liddelle, Sandy Nelson and Mark McDonnell | | Nutshell Theatre MacArts Centre, Galashiels | Performed script-in-hand as a work-in-progress, the first time the play was heard by an audience. |
| 28 June 2018 – 30 June 2018 | Handfast | Kate Nelson | Joanna Holden, Stephen Doherty, Pauline Goldsmith, Sandy Nelson, Mary Gapinski and Valentine Hanson | | Nutshell Theatre & The Byre Theatre The Byre Theatre, St Andrews | |
| 3 August 2018 – 26 August 2018 | Handfast | Kate Nelson | Joanna Holden, Stephen Doherty, Pauline Goldsmith, Sandy Nelson, Mary Gapinski and Valentine Hanson | | Nutshell Theatre & The Byre Theatre Summerhall, Edinburgh | |

## Short stories

* Agnus Dei, Macalllan Shorts 1 Polygon, 1998 ISBN 978-0-7486-6245-6
* Life Kit #1, Franklin's Grace Fish, 2002 ISBN 978-0-9542586-0-3
* Radar Bird, Macallan Shorts V, Polygon, 2003 ISBN 978-0-7486-6329-3
* The Case Against Wings, Chapman 2004 ISBN 978-1-903700-10-5
* Nanonovels, Product magazine, 2004–2008 ISSN 1468-9901
* Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher

## Journalism

* Open University learning is a joy – Jules Horne, The Guardian, 18 June 2010