Graham White

Graham is a playwright, researcher and lecturer, with interests in playwriting practices, modern drama and cultural history and social performance, particularly in legal processes dealing with conflict resolution and the contestation of historical narratives. His most recent work includes an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Jude The Obscure for BBC Radio 4, an original play set around the Hague tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, General Mladic is Waving, and a research article analysing  police officer impersonation in public legal processes 'Pretending To Be Someone Else Is Not Easy: The Performance of Identity At The Undercover Policing Inquiry' (forthcoming). His acclaimed 12 part adaptation of Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and formed part of a 4* rated Impact Case Study submitted to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.  His award-winning version for Radio 3 of BS Johnson's 1960s experimental novel The Unfortunates won a BBC Audio Drama Award for Innovation and was rebroadcast in December 2018 as the BBC's first interactve Alexa app. 

BA (London), MA, DPhil (Sussex)

Graham's research focuses on writing practices, on modern drama, on avant-garde and modernist arts practices, on drama and cultural history (particularly around the 60s/70s counter-culture), and on performance in the law, especially in processes of public reconciliation. Recent publications examined witness and audience self-presentation in public legal environments such as the UN's tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, the ambiguous critical histories of punk and the tensions between the experimental and the mainstream illustrated by Yoko Ono's presence in The Beatles' history. Current work focuses on the UK Government ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry.