2008 Work in progress:

I'm working on major improvements to this web site, including the addition of pdfs of several of my complete play and filmscripts - some performed - some unperformed. Watch this space!

2008

Dr. Gary Keogh, an IT database expert, and I have completed the development work on our trail-blazing, comprehensive, interactive, EFL course for self-study on a digital platform such as cell phones, the Internet or the Nintendo DS. I've written the entire content and Dr. Keogh has created a fully-operational demonstration of the product. The British Council estimates that a billion people are learning English at any one time so the potential earnings from it are vast. If you're an astute "angel" with a few thousand pounds to invest (to cover essential production costs) get in touch and help us launch our amazing new product into this market of potential millions... Email Alan Wakeman

2008

The Windows version of my computer game that makes fun of the English language is also now ready to be launched on the market and needs an investor for similar reasons. See 1984.

2007 Unzipped, a selection of poems Gemini Press London. ISBN 978-0-9514093-2-8 £6.00 net + £1.50 UK postage and packing; Order from all good bookshops or email your details to: Gemini Press

2007 My play Innocence was given a staged public reading at the Tristan Bates Theatre  Covent Garden, London, as part of Stages of Sex - directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair.

2005 Innocence, my latest theatre play was given a public reading in Soho, London, as part of the Moonbow Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival in Exile for Belarus.

2005 Hamun and Giben and other stories, (new edition) a collection of 31 fables and mandalas, Gemini Press London. ISBN 0-9514093-1-X £6.00 net + £1.50 UK postage and packing. Order from all good bookshops or email your details to: Gemini Press

2005 I designed and programmed a web site for an old friend's small firm which helps victims of the mis-selling of endowment and life assurance policies to obtain fair compensation. Usually at: www.claims-uk.net but temporarily off line for revision.

2002 I designed and programmed a web site for an old friend who runs my local pizza restaurant which not only make excellent pizzas but also stages live jazz every night. See: www.sohopizzeria.co.uk.

2000-02 I wrote Soho Seen... and Heard, a regular column for Soho's free community newspaper - the Soho Clarion.

2000 awake on the web - the site you're looking at: online from 23rd November 2000 - my beloved Pete's 47th birthday.

1999 A Car-Free London? An exhibition of original practical proposals for a car-free London organised by The Architecture Foundation. I was sponsored by an old friend, Roc Sandford, to draw up my own designs for transforming London's villages into car-free zones and my drawings were among many others displayed at this fascinating, ground-breaking exhibition.

1989-99 Alan Wakeman's Green Piece, regular column on environmental issues for The Soho Clarion.

1997 The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, paperback of my new translation, Pavilion Books, London.

1996 The Vegan Cookbook (New Edition), in collaboration with Gordon Baskerville, Faber & Faber, London.

1996 I was presented with this Pink Paper Play Award for Where The Heart Is, my play about a teenage footballer's first experience of gay love. It was directed by Phil Willmott and produced as part of a season of new plays at The Drill Hall, London.

1995 The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Pavilion Books, London. My new translation of this classic French children's book was published with new illustrations by Michael Foreman.

1995 No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles, An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front 1970/73, by Lisa Power, Cassell, London, 1995. This evocative book brilliantly captures the mood of those stirring times and I was privileged to contribute interviews, historic documents and photographs.

1992 Regular pieces in Today's Vegetarian, London.

1989-90 A brief hiatus in my output for a round-the-world trip involving more or less continuous travel from October 1989 to March 1990, staying with many old friends along the way - on Long Island, in New York, in Washington, in San Francisco (where I arrived the day after a major earthquake), in Tahiti, in Moorea, in New Zealand and Australia. As always when travelling I kept a day book of writings, drawings and water-colours to record the high and low points. The former included the 3 months I spent with a life-long friend on Scotland Island in Ku-Ring-Gai National Park, about 20 miles north of Sydney, enfolded in Australia's fabulous wildlife and, best of all - and my original reason for going - the pilgrimage I made to my beloved Pete's birthplace in New Zealand.

1989 Beloved Friend & Other Love Poems. A commemorative book for Peter Granger, Gemini Press, London.

1988 City, I wrote the Soho pages of this Paris based magazine.

1987 Love & Hate in Soho. A description of life in Soho for London Scene, Gay Men's Press, London.

1986-87 Time & Tide, I wrote a regular computer page.

1986 Kaleidoscope, a computer graphics programme for the Sinclair Spectrum, Personal Computer World, London.

1986 The Vegan Cookbook, in collaboration with Gordon Baskerville, Faber & Faber, London.

1985 Kinetic Computer Graphics, Second International Contemporary Art Fair, Olympia, London.

1984 Lingo - The Computer Game That Makes Fun Of The English Language, BBC B version published by Complete Microcomputer Services, London.

1984 What Do You Think? 18 vox pop items, written, recorded, directed, edited and presented for the BBC World Service, London.

1972-83 Occasional articles, book and theatre reviews for Gay News.

1983 The Covent Garden Art Show, I exhibited drawings and paintings at The Seven Dials Gallery, London, with a group of other artists.

1981 Alone in the House, a short story, in Cracks in the Image, an anthology published by Gay Men's Press, London.

1981 The Doors of Perception, drawings and paintings, with a group of other artists, Seven Dials Gallery, London.

1981 One Man Show of drawings and paintings, Gay's the Word Gallery, London.

1980 Capsize in a Trimaran, by Nicolas Angel, Stanford Maritime, London. A tale of survival against the odds in the Atlantic ocean which I translated from the original French.

1980 Ships, by The Laetus Players, Auckland, New Zealand. See 1975.

1980 Technology Tomorrow, 18 15-minute radio programmes, devised, written, recorded, edited, directed and presented for the BBC World Service, London.

1980 The London Book, Bergstrom and Boyle, London. Member of the production team for this comprehensive photographic record of London's architectural heritage, designed by Sir Hugh Casson.

1980 Mr Angel, a short story, BBC Radio 4, London.

1980 Nerve, a short story, BBC Radio 4, London.

1979 Hamun and Giben and other stories, Mirananda Uitgevers, Wassenaar. In Dutch. See 1978.

1979 Ships A new production by The Gay Theatre Company, Sydney, Australia. See 1975.

1978 Hamun and Giben and other stories, a collection of 31 fables and mandalas, Wildwood House, London. For new edition email: Gemini Press

1976 Technology in the News, 17 15-minute radio programmes, written, recorded, directed, edited and presented for the BBC World Service, London.

1976 Tim, Willie and the Wurgles, Children's stories. Abelard Schuman, London.

1975 What exactly is heterosexuality, and what causes it?, London. I wrote this light-hearted jibe at straights to give them an inkling of what it feels like to be got at in the non-stop, subtle and insidious way we gays were before gay liberation changed everything. I originally made it up as I was painting it on a foyer wall during the world's first ever season of gay plays where it caused such a sensation that I subsequently published it as a fund-raising poster for Gay Sweatshop, the theatre group I was a founder member of. (See below.) I've heard of sightings from New York to New Zealand, Sydney to Sao Paulo and discovered it on various Internet pages. Please note that, though I wrote it as a contribution to the gay community and have never made a penny from it, I do ask for my name to be included as the author in any printing of it. Click the title if you'd like to see it for yourself

1975 Ships Inter-Action Inprints, London, in an anthology of playscripts of the first Gay Sweatshop season at the Almost-Free Theatre, London. See below

1975 Ships, Inter-Action Productions, London. Directed by Gerald Chapman and presented by the Gay Sweatshop theatre group, my play Ships was part of the world's first ever season of openly gay plays at the Almost-Free Theatre, off Shaftesbury Avenue, in London's West End. Originally booked to run for 3 weeks, Ships was sold out every day and extended for a further 3 weeks before transferring to The Mickery Theatre in Amsterdam, where it ran for a further week as part of an International Theatre Festival.

1974 Jabberwocky, Longmans, London. An English language teaching game.

1974 Getting It Taped, BBC English by Radio, London. 17 short talks on the use of tape recorders in language teaching, written, recorded, directed and presented for the BBC World Service, London.

1972 A Fairy Tale About Profit, a radio drama based on the history of Piccadilly Circus, devised, written, produced and directed for BBC Radio London.

1972 Goodbye Piccadilly, a tape and slide show, devised, written, produced and directed for the Save Piccadilly Campaign, London at the time London's Piccadilly Circus was threatened with demolition and redevelopment as office blocks.

1972 Either/Or, an LP of 12 songs, performed by the group Everyone Involved, words and music by Alan Wakeman and Michael Klein, arrangements by Everyone Involved. A free album about an alternative way to conduct our lives.

1971 Are Language Laboratories Worth the Money? Education Today, London.

1970 Motor Car Madness, a short film about the destructive effect of cars on cities, for BBC TV, Nationwide, London, devised, written and produced by Alan Wakeman and directed by William Wilson.

1969 Getting on in English, by John Haycraft, 40 15-minute dramatised sound recordings for this intermediate English course, produced and directed for BBC English by Radio, London.

1969 Londoners' London, A photographic essay, in collaboration with Michel Arnaud. Rapp and Whiting, London.

1968 Pace in Language Laboratory Programmes, Hart-Davis Educational, London. Originally given as a lecture on behalf of the British Council to the Language Laboratory Association of Japan at Chiba University, Tokyo.

1968 The Use of Film for English Language Teaching, Ford Foundation, Japan.

1968 Common Teaching Mistakes in the Language Laboratory, OUP/British Council, Japan.

1966-72 English Fast, a comprehensive, audio-visual course for the teaching of English as a foreign language, comprising 12 books, 56 audio programmes and 2 song records, devised, written, produced and directed for Hart-Davis Educational, London.