Mark Wallington

Mark Wallington

Mark Wallington was born in Swanage in Dorset in 1953. He worked for a while as a gardener in London before becoming a scriptwriter and travel journalist. In 1982 he walked the South West coastal path and his subsequent book, 500-Mile Walkies, became a bestseller. In 1992 his novel The Missing Postman was published and he wrote the script for the award-winning BBC television play starring James Bolam. He is much sought after as a film and television writer. He works from his home in the High Peak in Derbyshire and is married with two children.

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GREENLIT PRODUCTIONS:
THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD - Original comedy drama starring Martin Clunes

GREENPOINT FILMS:
THE ONLY BOY FOR ME - 90’ adaptation of Gil McNeil’s comic novel on single parenthood, broadcast ITV September 2006

TIGER ASPECT:
OVER HILL AND DALE - BBC adaptation of the warm and funny tales of a schools inspector in the Yorkshire Dales from books by Gervase Phinn

ITV:
THE NAKED RAMBLER - Treatment for original film with ITV Granada North (2005)

BBC:
STATION JIM - Family entertainment screenplay celebrating the Victorian heyday, involving trains and dogs. Produced by Ann Scott and directed by John Roberts.  Shown in 2002 and 2004.
STATION JIM II & III - Commissioned sequels to Station Jim

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAKESPEARE - Mark adapted his novel in two 75’ episodes for the BBC.  Producer Gareth Neame, director Nick Hurran, starring Neil Morrissey

THE MISSING POSTMAN - 2 part dramatisation of his novel, with James Bolam, Alison Steadman, Carter and Barbara Dickson. Winner of Best Comedy Drama at the British Comedy Awards 1997. Nominated for Writers Guild Award 1997.

ALL NIGHT LONG - Comedy series (with Dick Fiddy)  

DEAD CENTRE - 6 part comedy series (with Dick Fiddy)  

HARTSWOOD FILMS:
MAN AND VAN  - Original comedy series

THE MISSING POSTMAN - Screenplay commissioned by BBC Films for adaptation of Mark’s novel (2007)

NARROW DOG TO CARCASSONNE - Development work for BBC Films

MY LIFE AS A CAR - Original series for Radio 4 in six parts

BOOGIE UP THE RIVER - Adaptation of his novel for Radio 4 in six parts

500 MILE WALKIES - Adaptation of his novel for Radio 4.
 

BOOKS

THE DAY JOB (Hutchinson)
Published July 2005.  A hilarious memoir of Mark’s early days as a writer, when he eked out a living as the most uninformed gardener in North London.

HAPPY MR BIRTHDAY SHAKESPEARE (Michael Joseph/Penguin)
Will Green is a coach driver with Beefeater Tours driving tourists round the most idyllic parts of Britain by day, but returning to his cramped, dustmite ridden flat on Holloway Road at night.  He longs to inhabit the life he glimpses out of the coach windows and escape from the drudgery of his North London existence and his burgeoning family before it is too late.

PENNINE WALKIES (Hutchinson/Arrow)          
The Pennine Hills beckon to be explored and it seems to be the only walk that will satisfy a seemingly inexhaustable dog

THE MISSING POSTMAN (Hutchinson/Warner).
Clive Peacock becomes a modern Don Quixote on his red bicycle as he hand delivers his final bag of mail around the country and abroad.  German rights sold to Claassen Verlag.

BOOGIE UP THE RIVER (Hutchinson/Arrow)   
The story of the search for the source of the River Thames.

DESTINATION LAPLAND (Hutchinson/Arrow)
The story of a cycling trip to the Arctic Circle that ended in Newcastle.

FIVE HUNDRED MILE WALKIES (Hutchinson/Arrow)        
Optioned by BBC Television 1997
This was serialised on BBC Radio 4 and sold 80,000 copies in paperback the following year.