 Radford's next film, released in 1987, was "White Mischief", a period drama set in Kenya during the 1940s.Radford again wrote the screenplay, an adaptation of the novel by James Fox also called "White Mischief".Michael Radford is most widely known as the writer and director of the 1994 film "", which Radford adapted from the novel "Ardiente Paciencia" by Antonio Skármeta.