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An essential guide for anyone who dreams of penning tomorrow's radio classics.
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Claire Grove, who died in 2013, was a Sony Radio Academy Award-winning radio producer who created over three hundred dramas for BBC Radio 4, Radio 3 and the World Service. She produced Classic Chandler, a landmark series dramatising all eight Philip Marlowe novels, and The Complete Ripley. Awards include: Sony Gold for A Woman in Waiting by Thembi Mtshali, the story of a South African domestic worker; Sony Gold for A Matter of Sex by Nick Stafford; and a Silver Sony for Banana Republic by Greig Coetzee, one of three plays to mark ten years since the first democratic election in South Africa.
Career highlights include working with Mike Bartlett on Love Contract and Not Talking, and with Charlotte Jones on The Diva in Me; directing Gary Oldman in Walk Right By Me by Christopher Harris, and Sir Patrick Stewart in Stephen Wyatt's Double Jeopardy; and recording Nick Darke's drama-documentary Underground in a Cornish tin mine.
Claire was posthumously awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Radio Drama Award in 2014.
Stephen Wyatt is the only writer to have won the Tinniswood Award for best radio drama script twice – for Memorials to the Missing in 2007 and Gerontius in 2011. He has written over twenty original scripts for radio and numerous dramatisations including Dante's The Divine Comedy. He's also written for television (Doctor Who and Casualty) and his theatre work has been seen everywhere from London's West End to the Bubble Theatre's touring tent. In conjunction with New Writing South and the University of Sussex, he created the UK's first online radio drama course in 2009. His novel, The World and His Wife, was published in 2019.
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A practical guide to writing radio drama and getting it produced, by a leading radio dramatist and a hugely experienced radio drama producer who have both created award-winning dramas for the BBC.
