Daniel is a playwright and screenwriter.
Between 2019 and 2024, he was a core writer on the iconic BBC Radio 4 drama THE ARCHERS, for which he wrote more than one hundred episodes.
In 2021, Daniel’s first screenplay THE LAMBETH WALTZ was awarded development funding by the BFI.
His original plays for BBC Radio 4 are THE MACEFIELD PLOT (2019, R4’s Drama of the Week) starring Siân Phillips and Stanley Townsend, who received an Audio Drama Award nomination for Best Actor, THE LAMBETH WALTZ (2017) starring Marion Bailey and Chetna Pandya, AN OPEN RETURN (2016) starring Vincent Franklin and Anne Reid, THE FORTY YEAR TWITCH (2011) starring Paula Wilcox and Philip Jackson, and THOSE HARD-TO-REACH PLACES (2010) starring Anne Reid and Geoffrey Whitehead.
As an alumnus of writer’s groups run by the Royal Court Theatre, Paines Plough and Soho Theatre, a number of Daniel’s stage plays received rehearsed readings, including CUPBOARD LOVE (Live Theatre, Newcastle) directed by Jeremy Herrin, WORDS TO THAT EFFECT (The Cockpit), EXTRACTION (Old Vic), NO SUCH WORD AS CAN’T (Young Vic), PAST TENSE and HOW CAN I PUT THIS? (Soho Theatre).
Daniel also contributed topical sketches for the Canal Café Theatre’s long-running NEWSREVUE, while his comic monologue THE WINNER’S ENCLOSURE was commissioned and published by AnOther Magazine.
Praise for Daniel’s work…
“Beautifully observed moments and tremendously witty dialogue that finds rich humour in the seemingly mundane” – Radio Times
“Daniel Thurman provides his characters with tragi-comic profundity” – BBC Radio 4’s Pick of the Week
“Delicious comedy” – The Telegraph
