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White Girl
Paul Ashton
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.
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Bits and Bobs - Tony Doyle, Radio Comedy Scripts
Piers Beckley
The winner of this year's Tony Doyle Bursary for New Writing, which was supported by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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'...
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Writers Academy 10
Ceri Meyrick
My Writing Heart Applications for the course open next Monday 6th April. Do keep your eye on this website for details of when the online application goes live. To give your another flavour of what the course is like, I thought we'd hear from another recent graduate. Gill Adams completed...
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Writers Academy 9
Ceri Meyrick
Where are they now? The Writers Academy has been going for four years now. 32 writers have done the course, and I thought it might be useful to look at what's happened to them.... Academy writers have joined the core writing teams of all four shows... five at Casualty (including one, Mark...
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Writers Academy 7
Ceri Meyrick
Giving up the Day Job This week I've asked Rob Williams (Writers Academy Graduate 2008) to write the blog for me. He finished the course just before Christmas and is in the throes of his first Holby City script... "When people ask me what I did before the Writers Academy, I used to reply ...
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Writers Academy 5
Ceri Meyrick
Small Children This week's entry is prompted by one comment that suggested we might be excluding writers (mostly, it was assumed, women) who had to care for young families, because of the full on-nature of the course. Sally Abbott completed the course in December, and she's about to start he...
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Trapped
Paul Ashton
Trapped is an eight-part animated series about consequences that was written and developed by three young people in Knowsley, Liverpool working with Lucia Haynes, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ writersroom writer-in-residence with Action for Children (formerly NCH). What started out as a residency in a project for chi...
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Writersroom talent on awards shortlist
Paul Ashton
The Tinniswood and Imison radio awards shortlists have been announced for 2008, and we're delighted to see writers and work developed through writersroom are on there. For the Tinniswood, Mark Ravenhill's Yesterday an Incident Occurred was produced by Kate Rowland for the Free Thinking Festival/...
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From writersroom to M I High
Paul Ashton
Take a look at our new web feature by Keith Brumpton about how his CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ series M I High came about. After entering a writersroom competition and being shortlisted, he was invited on to a CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ scheme that set the ball rolling towards a successful show that is about to shoot a third series... You ...
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Read all about it!
Paul Ashton
Thought I'd better update our pages with some recent good news: Ed Hime won the Prix Italia prize for best original radio drama. Ed was one of our '50' writers, a project we ran with the Royal Court Theatre. Having confessed to never listened to a radio drama before, Ed pitched his idea and i...