BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent
Next Thurs 13 Feb is World Radio Day, but audio drama is under serious threat
Share a short video to tell BBC Director General Tim Davie + the BBC why audio drama is important to you, the wider UK drama ecosystem + why you oppose their cuts
More info 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/save-audio-d...
I've just spotted that LITTLE MUSPRATT is on BBC Sounds (for the next month) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
"The BBC is wrong to axe drama on Radio 3 – here’s why it matters"
My piece for @thestage.bsky.social on the importance (past & present) of BBC Radio 3 drama: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a...
#RadioDrama @writersguildgb.bsky.social @equityuk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social
Absolutely, Lisa. Read more about this here: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a...
Following on from my piece in @thestage.bsky.social yesterday about the importance of drama on BBC Radio 3 (and the decision to axe it), @eggsbened.bsky.social explains why size is important...
edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/22/d...
Today, alongside @equityuk.bsky.social + @societyofauthors.bsky.social, we have launched a petition calling on Director-General of the BBC Tim Davie to rethink plans to eradicate audio drama from BBC Radio 3
Sign the petition to Save Audio Drama at the BBC
www.change.org/SADatTheBBC
“I have conversed with the spiritual sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill”. Wm Blake.
Yes - it's war. With newts. Put on your goggles. Pull on your wet suit. Sunday 8.00pm BBC Radio 3 - and after @bbcsounds.bsky.social @edmundharris.bsky.social @reducedlistening.bsky.social @bbcradio3.bsky.social
@edharrisblue.bsky.social has woven a great new thread through Capek’s nightmare vision.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Coming up on Sunday 8th December. Be afraid. Very afraid.
Back in the day when some uni theses were typed up a friend found that her dissertation on Webster’s heroine was renamed ‘the Duchess of half;’. Strangely satisfying now that I only got to see half of the production tonight. ;;;;;;;;
'There was change in the air, a hunger for art that escaped committees and censorship – even for Bacon’s brand of (exuberant) nihilism.
Francis Bacon in Moscow.
The story of an exhibition - and a BBC Radio 3 play on the same theme
Anohni sings Lou Reed. Astonishing.
What a lot of fine audiotypes ! Glad to be among them.
Loved this. Thank you !
Well, to be honest, it wasn’t quite.
In 2015 we stumbled across an old ambulance depot in Tottenham Hale.
over the next 5 years we would turn it into a space for us to experiment, our first show an audio adventure saw audience members shot out of the warehouse in coffins down a canal we built in the car park!
#theatre #music #myths
All’s Well
Tempted.
Such an important discussion - something we all need to pay attention to. Thanks for the link.
Some of the best radio I have ever heard. I have learned so much from these pieces.
Spent today with Felix at Hall for Cornwall, sharing our learnings from the past 15 years.
It made me grateful for a shared adventure that’s seen us produce dozens of plays in crazy spaces, cycle the length of the USA, bus to Singapore and much much more.
#theatre #travel #cornwall #adventures
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... just caught up with this. Will Young is brilliant. And the sound design is magical. Bravo @jonnicholls.bsky.social and Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore.
Ford Madox Ford writing to Joseph Conrad about the sounds of war #greatwar #westernfront
What’s up ?
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with these fellas recently @edharris.bsky.social @bbcradio3.bsky.social
Some wonderful resources here for anyone interested in the history of broadcasting:
Hundreds of archive clips, documents, interviews, and images.
Timelines.
Curated collections on special themes with background articles by academics.
Links to other relevant resources
‘Leaving Twitter’ by First Dog on the Moon in today’s Guardian.
