
Mark Griffiths grew up in North Wales. At age 17 he sold his first comedy material to Radio 4. At 18 he was writing for
Smith & Jones on BBC 1. He co-created and co-wrote BBC Radio Wales’s political sitcom
The Basement with Cai Ross. He’s written two stage plays –
The Lullaby Witch and
The Impossibility Club – as well as one for BBC Radio 4 –
Leona Cash, and was one of the writers on Charlie Brooker’s TV series and book
TV Go Home. He studied philosophy at the University of Reading. His interests include magpies, English muffins, the pop group Cardiacs, weasels and seeing the moon during the day.


My Top 10 Kids’ Books
Posted on May 1, 2012
In no particular order: 1) THE IRON WOMAN by Ted Hughes. Everyone knows and loves THE IRON MAN but less well known is this 1993 sequel in which a female iron giant emerges from a marsh to warn mankind of impending ecological doom. Where the first book is a melancholy and contemplative fairytale, this second [...]
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