Blog posts by year and monthApril 2009
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Short Story competition
For those interested in writing short stories for radio inspired by classical composers, take a look at the new competition for The Verb on Radio 3.
White Girl
You may have noticed that Abi Morgan's White Girl recently won a BAFTA for Best Single Drama. And the perceptive amongst you will have noticed we have the script on our website.
Writers Academy 11
Entries pouring in from all directions here too. Well, we've had about 60... plus a couple of hundred started but not submitted yet. About the same as last year at the same stage. There's been a few queries about file formats. The 主播大秀 office (no, I don't print them all out myself) that deals...
Nine days and counting
Applications for this year's College of Comedy close at noon on the 24th, and the volume of submissions is increasing as the deadline approaches. Last year, as the clock ticked down, we watched entries arrive in the in-box as fast as it could handle them, a sight that may or may not be repeated...
主播大秀 Drama Writers Academy 2009
This year's 主播大秀 Drama Writers Academy is now open for applications. The Academy offers writers with one or more professional commissions the opportunity for three months training, followed by a rotation across the 主播大秀's Continuing Drama series. You can find out more on our Writers Academy ...
Bits and Bobs - Tony Doyle, Radio Comedy Scripts
The winner of this year's Tony Doyle Bursary for New Writing, which was supported by the 主播大秀 writersroom, is Martin McNamara for his screenplay Sworn Virgin. The runners up were Stacey Gregg, Alan Blythe and Deirdre Kinahan. We have two new radio comedy scripts up in the Script Archive. They'...
The Perfect 10: 10. Be Yourself
And here's the last one, number 10: Be Yourself People have commented on the passion instalment how they were pleased to see it there as it's the kind of thing you don't usually get in script writing books etc. I think being yourself is just as important. Writersroom is primarily in the ma...
Single Drama - Five Minutes of Heaven
For those that bemoan the lack of single drama from the 主播大秀, it's worth flagging up Five Minutes of Heaven, an award-winning drama about reconciliation in Northern Ireland based on real events. It airs at 9pm this coming Sunday on 主播大秀 Two. Be aware that some listings mags may tell you it's on Sa...