Blog posts by year and monthJune 2011
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Get a Squiggle On: Top tips from CBeebies
Thinking of entering our CBeebies Get a Squiggle On Competition but need help finding inspiration for your script? Check out the short film below specially put together by CBeebies, with their top tips on how to approach writing for a preschool audience. You can also watch some CBeebies ...
Stringsta: The World of Mancunia
主播大秀 Radio Drama North, with the new social creativity platform Stringsta have just launched a really exciting web project which gives budding writers a platform to showcase their work, as well as allowing them the opportunity to add to and interact with other writer's stories and ideas. It's ...
Laughing Stock: How to Get the Most out of a 主播大秀 Residency
As you've probably seen by now, several other of my fellow Laughing Stock winners have written blogs about their experiences of the contest and being on residency with Aunty. I thought it'd try and write the list I would have liked to have stumbled upon before embarking on a week away with ...
Laughing Stock: A winner's perspective
Sending in a script to the 主播大秀 for a competition is always a challenge, especially if you miss the last post before the deadline and have to take the train from Birmingham all the way to Euston to drop it off at Grafton House. That's how my journey for the Laughing Stock competition started. I...
Mr Bloom's Nursery
Mr Bloom's Nursery started off as a piece of street theatre that I had written. It was an interactive walkabout performance piece that engaged with families at festival events. I played a gardener who had dug up his baby vegetables and taken them out for the day in an old Victorian pram. The sho...
C.S.I. CBeebies: A fur-ensic look at perfecting storylines for Nuzzle & Scratch
Nuzzle & Scratch are back for a third series on CBeebies. For the uninitiated and/or the over 6's, Nuzzle & Scratch are two idiotic, accident-prone puppet alpacas with two very funny series under their belts already. Having written for series two, I can't wait to write more for these guys; c...
TV Drama - The Writers' Festival 2011: Booking deadline extended
The deadline for bookings for this year's Writers' Festival has now been extended until June 23rd. Please send all completed application forms through to writersroom.events@bbc.co.uk by midnight on this date. We've just announced more guest speakers on the festival page - with a fantastic line-up to include Jimmy McGovern, Frank Spotnitz, Jack Thorne, Paula Milne, Toby Whithouse, Stephen Butchard and Alice Nutter to name a few, it's shaping up to be a very exciting year. Some of the session titles announced so far include: "Team writing US style", "The Curse of the scripwriting guru", "Know Your Audience - Writing for the Youth Market" and "Is it the writer's responsibility to change the world?" Find out more about the festival and how you can apply for a ticket. Look forward to seeing you there!