Making a noise about sound drama. Likes walking, cycling, theatre, Shakespeare. Don't like airports, ice cream, flashing lights.
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Plans to cut audio drama from @BBCRadio3 have been labelled a “devastating loss for writers and actors alike”, with critics calling it the end of the “National Theatre of the airwaves” 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/cuts-to-…
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Hard Times by #Dickens & @Belstoney 3pm Sun 29 Sept @BBCRadio4 - @davemorrissey64 @Rachel__Harper @IkeBnntt @shaundooley @thatjanravens @janey_orchard @Will2Close @Arthur_Hughes1 @ClaireCage1 @peerobinson Julie Barclay, Richard Elfyn & Aaron Anthony bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023ft…
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The first in a #Dickensian season of three dramatisations, followed by #LittleDorrit with @Jason__Watkins Samuel Barnett @kittyarch & @Ptjbrad and #OurMutualFriend with @mat_fraser & @Lucyspeed #CharlesDickens Interview by Anna Jones @RadioTimes Illustration @matthew_brazier
I just backed 9 Holidays I wish I had Never Been On on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/rat…
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Seventy years after Dylan Thomas’s radio play Under Milk Wood was first broadcast, five Welsh writers create dramatic portraits of Wales in 2024.
Actor Ruth Jones narrates the stories @BBCSounds 🎧
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So much more than a tribute to Dylan Thomas - this is a proper treat for the ears - beautifully directed by @EmmaHarding01 and Fay Lomas with sound design by Catherine Robinson and Jonathan Thomas @bbcradio3 @bbcwales #audiofiction
The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved | Editorial theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Now available on BBC Sounds - Tim Spall plays Francis Bacon in James Birch's memoir of 1980s London and Moscow, dramatised by Stephen Wakelam.
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Our friend James Birch’s book Bacon in Moscow is being dramatised on radio 3 at 7.30 this evening. Strong recommend. bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/progin…
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Congratulations to all shortlisted for the 2024 BBC Audio Drama Awards! These awards celebrate the creativity of actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, sound designers & all who work in this vibrant art form. Winners announced Sun 24 March 2024 bbc.co.uk/programmes/article…
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This is a wonderful, beautiful Thai surname. But just bear with me while I go off and have a quick cry…
#UniversityChallenge
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Lots happening across the BBC to celebrate 400 years since the first Shakespeare folio. On @BBCRadio3 we'll have an entire day of music inspired by the Bard *and* some remarkable new dramas inspired by Hamlet: bbc.com/mediacentre/2023/sha…
Emily Mortimer, A Voyage Round My Father: ‘I wish I’d written about my dad like he did about his’ telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what…
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Without doubt, one of the most terrifying, thrilling, life-affirming, JOYOUS things I've ever been involved with. Unforgettable. There's nowhere like @The_Globe
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it... ❤️
Not had enough of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only? Here are some more pics to whet your appetite 😉
📸 @brennerphotos
ALT The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - two cast members facing each other and talking with their hands up.
ALT The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - one dressed as a fool gesturing, with a musician behind.
ALT The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - one cast member leaning on a pillar looking out into the audience.
ALT The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - one cast member reading a letter and looking out into the audience pensively, with a green bush behind them.
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The @RadioTimes celebrates its centenary this week. Radio productions of #Shakespeare's plays have frequently featured on the cover, so here's a short thread of my favourites... starting with some of the earliest from the 1920s & 30s (1/4)
#RadioTimes100 #RT100 #RadioDrama
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To mark the centenary of radio drama at the BBC, Radio Waves brings together three emerging writers who explore how storytelling is integral to the human experience 🧬
Join Captain Avery as she voyages through deep space
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Did you know radio drama is 100 years old?
We continue our run of radio plays to mark the occasion with KALEIDOSCOPE 3 featuring David Haig as BBC radio pioneer Lance Sieveking 📻
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Radio Waves by three writers new to radio - this afternoon at 2.15. – at Hackney, London
