Dare, Bill
Entry updated 12 March 2025. Tagged: Author, Radio.
Working name of UK author, comedian and Radio/television producer William Dare Jones (1960-2025), who is of sf interest for the Satirical BBC Radio 4 series Brian Gulliver's Travels (2 seasons, 2011 and 2012) which he created and co-wrote, and whose titular Gulliver character describes his experiences in various countries of the undiscovered continent Clafrenia. Targets include the medical (see Medicine) and legal professions, alternative therapies (see Pseudoscience), Sex, the military (see War) and wilful cultural Amnesia. Dare's novelization based on the broadcast series is Brian Gulliver's Travels (2013). [DRL]
William Dare Jones
born London: 16 May 1960
died 1 March 2025
works
- Brian Gulliver's Travels (Edinburgh, Scotland: Pilrig Press, 2013) [tie to the radio series: pb/]
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