Plays and performances

This is a list of the media versions of Joan Aiken works, with first performance dates and details where available. It includes Jackanory stories, TV plays and series, stage plays and recorded readings.

Jackanory stories

• ???? "Arabel's raven"
  read by Roy Kinnear, illustrations by Quentin Blake
• ???? "The escaped black mamba"
  read by Bernard Cribbins, illustrations by Quentin Blake
• ???? "The bread bin"
  read by Bernard Cribbins, illustrations by Quentin Blake
• ???? "Mortimer's tie"
  read by Bernard Cribbins, illustrations by Quentin Blake
• ???? "The spiral stair"
  read by Bernard Cribbins, illustrations by Quentin Blake
• ???? "Mortimer and the sword Excalibur"
  read by Bernard Cribbins, illustrations by Quentin Blake
• ???? "The mystery of Mr Jones' disappearing taxi"
  read by Bernard Cribbins, illustrations by Quentin Blake
• ???? "Mortimer's portrait on glass"
  read by Bernard Cribbins, illustrations by Quentin Blake
• ???? "The kitchen warriors (5 chapters)"
  
• ???? "Mortimer's Cross"
  read by Bernard Cribbins, illustrations by Quentin Blake
• ???? "The queen with screaming hair"
  

TV plays and series

• 1976 "The dark streets of Kimball's Green"
• 1976 "Mortimer's tie"
• 1977 "The apple of trouble"
• 1977 Midnight is a place (series)
• 1977 Mice and Mendelson (series)
  Thames TV, produced and directed by Peter Webb
• 1978 "The rose of Puddle Fratrum"
• 1978 "Armitage, Armitage, fly away home"

Stage plays

(first performance only)

• 1982 Moon mill
  performed at The Unicorn Theatre for Young People, 1982
• 1970 Winterthing: a child's play
  The Puffin Players, at the Young Vic, 17 January 1970
  produced by John Phillips
• 1973 The Mooncusser's daughter
  The Unicorn Theatre for Young People, at the Arts Theatre, London
  7 April 1973
  directed by Ursula Jones, designed by Pamela Howard
• 1977 Street
  produced in London

Audio

Caedmon cassettes of Joan Aiken reading her works

• 1978 The wolves of Willoughby Chase
  1 hour, 1 minute, 42 seconds
  abridged by the author, notes by her in the container
• ???? A necklace of raindrops, and other stories