I suspect they are too tied up in the literary medium to work as broadcast but the Thursday Next (The Eyre Affair) or Nursery Crime books by Jasper Fforde are just brilliant.

I'd recommend picking them up anyway as I was carried off by the sheer enthusiasm of it despite having only a vague awareness of the events of Jane Eyre

I've wanted Ken Stott as Quatermass for ages, he's got the right balance of gravitas, angst and acting quality. Plus he's a Scot which Quatermass obviously is ;o).

Having said that, he's getting on a bit to play a younger Quatermass.

The problem is the continuity of Quatermass' later career is pretty well set, Experiment, II, Pit, Memoirs and Conclusion, and that's it.

The alternative is to spin off and do "Son of Quatermass"(or more likely "Nephew of Quatermass" since no son is ever mentioned in the original stories), set in a world post "Conclusion".

I once sketched out a loose wartime chronology for Quatermass starting with a story very near to Kneale's idea for a pre-war story, where he goes over to Germany in 1938 on an undercover mission to disrupt a new German rocket guidance system. Then another in WW2 where he's been seconded to an experimental RAF squadron and German agents in the UK are trying to tap into the occult powers of a saxon burial mound (sort of Pit meets Sutton-Hoo).

Then one set on a destroyer in the North Sea where the crew are driven psychotic by something beneath the surface (inspired by tales of the Witch's Hole off Aberdeen), with Quatermass the only survivor, he is taken prisoner by a German battleship crew and has to pursuade them of the danger they are all in. Then a fourth story where Quatermass is sent to the occupied channel Islands to investigate reports of a German biological weapon's program on the islands which is doing terrible, terrible things. And finally a story as the war is coming to a close involving the German atomic program.

I think there's alot of potential for wartime Quatermass shennanigans, not even necessarily occult/sci-fi based, but some on more straight espionage/war story lines.

So if BF did do a series of Quatermass stories, what would we like to see in them? Who would you like to see as the noble Professor?...

I think Mark Gattis would be a perfect writer for at leat one of the stories. Big Quatermass fan and he is a master at conjuring up period pieces.

The alternative is to spin off and do "Son of Quatermass"(or more likely "Nephew of Quatermass" since no son is ever mentioned in the original stories), set in a world post "Conclusion".

Personally, I'd like to see the Michael Moor**** books done on audio - Elric, Corum, Jerry Cornelius and the rest. A fantastic blend of sci-fi, fantasy, surrealism, detective/spy novels (the Jerry Cornell books) and so on. There are a huge number of books in there, they all interlink in one way or another and they would appeal to many people's tastes: if you don't like fantasy, skip to the Cornelius books; if you don't like sci-fi, go for the Cornell books.

As they are all different characters, even though they are all the Eternal Champion, so you could get a range of actors and writers, the sound and music department could go nuts and we'd all end up with such a great range of audio plays.

I always thought Joe Ahearne's modern vampire series, Ultraviolet, would be a good one. Susannah Harker already works with BF. Unfortunately Idris Elba's having too much fun with The Wire now and Jack Davenport is always in Hollywood these days too... Ah well.