Jim Eldridge

 ( English Male Screenwriters ) 

Jim Eldridge (born November 1944) is an English radio, film and television screenwriter with hundreds of radio and TV scripts broadcast in the United Kingdom and across the world in a career spanning over 30 years.

Eldridge is the creator and writer of radio shows including Shut UP, King Street Junior, Coming Alive, Crosswords, Albert and Me, Parsley Sidings and The Demon Headmaster. On TV, he has created children's science fiction drama Powers, Time of My Life and Uncle Jack and written for The Ghost Hunter, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde, and Up the Elephant and Round the Castle, in addition to other TV and radio series.

In 1971 he sold his first sitcom to the BBC and had his first book commissioned. Since then he has had more than 100 books published, which have sold over three million copies. He lives in Kent with his wife.

"Warpath" Series

• Warpath 1: Tank Attack
• Warpath 2: Deadly Skies
• Warpath 3: Behind Enemy Lines
• Warpath 4: Depth Charge Danger
• Warpath 5: Last Convoy
• Warpath 6: Beach Assault
• Warpath 7: Night Bomber
• Warpath 8: Island Of Fear

"My Story" Series

• My Story: The Trenches (2002)
• My Story: Armada (2002)
• My Story: Flying Ace (2003)
• My Story: Spy Smuggler (2004)
• My Story: Desert Danger (2005)

"Museum mysteries"

• Murder at the Fitzwilliam (2018)
• Murder at the British Museum (2019)
• Murder at the Ashmolean (2019)
• Murder at the Manchester Museum (2020)
• Murder at the Natural History Museum (2020)
• Murder at Madame Tussauds (2021)
• Murder at the National Gallery (2022)
• Murder at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2022)
• Murder at the Tower of London (2023)
• Murder at the Louvre (2024)

"Hotel mysteries"

• Murder at the Ritz: The Stylish Wartime Whodunnit (2021)
• Murder at the Savoy: The Sophisticated Wartime Whodunnit (2021)
• Murder at Claridge's: The Elegant Wartime Whodunnit (2022)

• Jim Eldridge homepage
• Jim Eldridge Interview
• Parsley Sidings episode guide