Stephen Greif has just read the audiobook version of Simon Schama's The Story of the Jews. Stephen told Horizon: "It was great to be asked and I have never had, or ever will have, such a tough task to undertake. It took me 30 days of preparation, including 14 sessions in the studio. It is the definitive book on the Jewish race, and took Schama forty years from idea to execution. A work of academic and scholastic complexity."

Stephen has also been workshopping a new play based on Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet, all about the movie Industry in England in the 1930s.

Stephen will be appearing at next month's Brit Sci Fi Event at Leicester Space Centre, together with fellow Travis - Brian Croucher - as well as Paul Darrow, Sally Knyvette and Jan Chappell.