Blog posts by year and monthOctober 2010
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New radio drama
Oldipo Agboluaje, who came on our Sparks radio scheme and was on of our Royal Court 50 writers too, has a new play on this weekend on Radio 3.
Rapid Response: In the Red - now closed
Our Rapid Response: In the Red competition has now closed. We've had over 100 entries - the winning scripts will be published on our website next week. Good luck to all who entered!
In the Red judges
Don't forget, the deadline is this Wednesday at 10am. Joining us to judge the final shortlist will be our marvelous New Writing Development Manager from up north, Jo Combes, and brilliant writer Gabriel Bisset-Smith. Jo recently joined writersroom from the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre where...
Windsor Fringe Marriott Award Results
An overall winner for the seventh Windsor Fringe Marriott Award for New Drama Writing has now been announced. The winner is: "Click" by Jan Perry. The runners-up are: "Man of Straw" by Norman Cowell "We That Are Left" by Peter Harrison Of the final ten shortlisted plays, six - includ...
EastEnders: E20
Another new script has been added to our script archive: EastEnders: E20 - Series 2, Episode 1 by Emer Kenny. Read an introduction below from EastEnders: E20 producer Deborah Sathe, where she talks about finding and developing new talent for the writing team, and the challenges involved in...
Tips for Rapid Response
Last time we did a Rapid Response was 'Five Days In May' when we asked you to submit pieces in response to the general election. Now that the Rapid Response is back with 'In The Red' we thought we'd gather some feedback from our team of readers that might help you with your submissions... Her...
The Floodgates
On the subject of rapid responses (see Fiona's post below), the episode of Doctors that I blogged about writing here is on telly tomorrow. It's called The Flood and is my first proper serial-only episode. If anyone interested in writing for the show fancies watching it (obviously you're watching...
Rapid Response: In the Red
Would you like to have your script published to the 主播大秀 writersroom website? We're looking for scripts based on this month's government spending review. What would you put in the 'spending envelope'? Could you come up with a completely different and dramatic approach to the budget deficit? ...
TV blog: Single Father and The Song of Lunch
Just wanted to let you know about two new posts on the 主播大秀 TV Blog which may be of interest. Mick Ford, writer of Single Father talks about the real life tragedy that inspired the story. It starts 9pm Sunday on 主播大秀 One and stars Suranne Jones and David Tennant. In step with National Poetry Day, Greg Wise (exec producer) talks about how he took the poem The Song Of Lunch and turned it into a drama (starring Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman).
The Cut
We have just added a new script to our script archive: The Cut - Series 3, Episode 1 by Al Smith. Here's Al to give some background on the series and the unique role the audience plays in shaping its storylines. Al Smith What is "The Cut"? It's a show about a bunch of tee...