I first met Bruce Bedford when, as the founding editor of the British caving magazine Descent, he invited me, a fellow caver, to be the correspondent for the tiny caving area of Devon in 1986. Bruce, who has died aged 80, from sepsis following a fall, was a keen member of the Chelsea Speleological Society, which, confusingly, has its club HQ in south Wales. He wrote books on caving, but was known to a wider audience as a gifted playwright in the field of radio drama.
Bruce contributed several plays for both radio and the stage, including the BBC radio serial The Gibson. His first play, Night Business, written in the early 80s, won the BBC Radio Bristol playwriting competition, and Under a Stone Moon (1991), about a caver becoming trapped underground, was shortlisted for the John Whiting award for playwriting and nominated for the Prix Italia.
