My sister Jehane Markham, who has died aged 75, was a playwright who wrote for radio, television and theatre. She also had her poetry published in five of her own collections.
Jehane’s original BBC Radio 4 plays included More Cherry Cake (1978) and Thanksgiving (1985) – both of which appeared in the Afternoon Play slot – and she also adapted Slyvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1976 and Antonia White’s Frost in May (1979) for the BBC. On television she wrote a BBC Play for Today, Nina, in 1978, and in theatre her play The Birth of Pleasure was performed by the Wonderful Beasts theatre company in London, in 1997, and Hermes was staged by the Rosemary Branch theatre, also in London, in 2006.
