 Kneale also adapted Sharpe 's Gold for ITV in 1995 , as part of their series of adaptations of Bernard Cornwell 's Sharpe novels . This was an assignment that surprised his agent ; " We didn 't think he 'd want to bother with them but he did . That was probably because he liked the producer . " He returned to writing for radio for the first time since the 1950s in 1996 , when he wrote the drama @-@ documentary The Quatermass Memoirs for BBC Radio 3 . Partly composed of Kneale looking back at the events that led to the writing of the original three Quatermass serials and using some archive material , there was also a dramatised strand to the series , set just before the ITV Quatermass serial and featuring Andrew Keir , star of the Hammer version of Quatermass and the Pit , as the Professor . 
