Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky are writers and playwrights who have written and produced several critically and audience acclaimed plays, a wide range of audio scripts for Big Finish productions and a number of treatments and other scripts for film, TV, podcasts and radio.

In the Print

Tom and Robert’s new play is coming to The King’s Head in 2026.

It’s 1985 and Brenda Dean is the first woman to lead a major British trade union. But she quickly faces a crisis as Rupert Murdoch unleashes his clandestine plans to revolutionise the production of British newspapers.

With 5,000 jobs on the line and the future of newspapers in the balance, she decides to take on Murdoch and his growing global media empire. But with time running out, and Murdoch’s influence growing, can she pull together the might of the unions to bring him down?

From the writers of ★★★★★ box office smash The Gang of Three comes this politically charged thriller about “The Battle of Wapping”. A year-long clash of wills between Rupert Murdoch and Brenda Dean where treachery, secret plots, technological change and civil unrest collide.

A gripping true story of power, print and protest, that changed Fleet Street forever.

Find out more about the play.

Previous plays by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky…

Coalition

Edinburgh Fringe 2012, London 2013

Making News

Edinburgh Fringe 2013

Kingmaker

Edinburgh Fringe 2014, London and Brighton, 2015

Impossible

Edinburgh Fringe 2015

Brexit

Edinburgh Fringe 2018, London 2018-2019

The Gang of Three

The King’s Head, May 2025

Big Finish audio dramas

Since 2015 Robert and Tom have been regularly commissioned by BIG FINISH PRODUCTIONS to write a variety of audio plays for DOCTOR WHO and various spin offs, as well as THE AVENGERS. Read more about our work for this amazing company here.