Jessica Dromgoole

Delighted two of 2024's projects shortlisted at the New York Festivals Radio Awards! The Man Who Fell To Earth prod. @bafflegabble.bsky.social for BBC Radio 4 (sound design JN) and Lonely No More from @audiama.bsky.social by @sebbyb.bsky.social dir. @jassicrea.bsky.social (sound design & music JN)

On Air (Albanian)

Katie Hims makes a great case for the cultural importance of audio drama.

actors, producers and sound engineers are gathered around microphones and a mixing desk. two men hold a total of three prop guns aloft to provide sound effects, while a group of actors stand around a microphone with scripts in hand.

it’s #WorldRadioDay, so the perfect time to embody the bombast of this 1938 recording of ‘Gang Busters’, and sign the @writersguildgb.bsky.social petition against radio drama cuts 👇

www.change.org/p/save-audio...

#SADattheBBC

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‪@presentdarkness.bsky.social

This is 💯 spot on. Congress, you created this monster! The American people will never forget your derelict actions when it mattered the most! If you don't heed the voices of the people, the people will remove you from your cushy seats!

#Bluecrew #Resistance

Writers’ Group: In Conversation with Award-winning Screenwriter Abi Morgan | WFTV UK For the first writers’ group of the year WFTV will be joined by the award-winning playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan.

Catch 2025's first Writers' Group with host Christina Pickworth in conversation with the award-winning playwright & screenwriter Abi Morgan - whose work includes 'Eric', 'The Split'', 'Birdsong and 'The Hour' and more! Register here: bit.ly/AB_WG

Script Reading & Development Q&A - Philip Shelley, Script Consultant Script Reading & Development Q&A Session via Zoom. Cost: £95.00  A semi-regular 2½ hour session, on Zoom, which I organise on demand. If you’re interested, would like to register your interest or have...

I am now taking bookings for my next SCRIPT READING & DEVELOPMENT zoom Q&A on the evening of Tuesday January 28th script-consultant.co.uk/script-readi...

Be #dazzled
Brilliant work from @sebbyb.bsky.social in @audiama.bsky.social ‘s first production

Looking forward to this today!

Skip by Amelia Bullmore, directed by the brilliant @marypeate.bsky.social , with sound by fantastic Eloise Whitmore, is on Radio 4 tomorrow at 2.15. A proud Hooley Production

BBC Radio 4 - Elsinore Sebastian Baczkiewicz's thrilling prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Christmas can be amazing. But for many people it can be a very difficult time of year. If you feel in need at the moment please reach out to people who can help and who understand. Don’t suffer in silence. @samaritans.bsky.social

Happy Solstice everyone! More light (& lots more work with Mary and Jon) please!

And also thrilled to see Love & Information produced by
@marypeate.bsky.social and @jassicrea.bsky.social
for shortlisted for Best Adaptation, which I also had the great pleasure of sound designing.

Screenwriting Screenwriting - The Craft and The Career; The authoritative, practical guide to screenwriting, laying out everything you need to be a successful screenwriter for film and television. Written by one of...

Now available for pre-order, published on Jan 23rd. A (late) Christmas present for the screenwriter in your life. www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/screenwriting

New Writers Collective - The TV Festival New Writers Collective a new opportunity for uncredited writers The TV Foundation, the umbrella charity behind the Edinburgh TV Festival, has once again teamed up with leading international TV product...

This is a brilliant scheme for new writers. Entries open until Jan 9th www.thetvfestival.com/tv-foundatio...

Lonely No More: Interview: Sebastian Baczkiewicz Sebastian Baczkiewicz has two new projects available to listen to at the moment – the latest instalment of Pilgrim, Belle Meadow Fayre, and the Audiama drama, Lonely No More. Paul Simpson caught up…

Great interview with @sebbyb.bsky.social about thrilling new immersive 8-part sci-fi thriller Lonely No More from @audiama.bsky.social (dir. @jassicrea.bsky.social music / sound design JN) - find it now on Apple pods, Spotify and elsewhere! scifibulletin.com/books/audiob...

#ChoesArk

#ChoesArk

Just finished listening to Lonely No More, written by the brilliant @sebbyb.bsky.social and directed by @jassicrea.bsky.social. Make sure you hear it too, it’s a ride. So, so good! Find it on Apple Podcasts and various other platforms.
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Drama on 4 - Chloe's Ark - BBC Sounds Wheelchair user Brooke needs Chloe to do her odd jobs, but maybe Chloe needs Brooke more.

Listen to Chloe's Ark 🛶 A play about love & floods 🌊 written by the talented @leanneallen.bsky.social , directed by the fabulous @jassicrea.bsky.social with a little flood science 🧪 🌧️ from me & Jessica Lamond #ExperimentalStories www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Do you even know the worst of it? They’re 2D!

Man in pub who has been mansplaining sexual harassment to me. Tell me me necklace gives me a certain Je ne sais quoi Him: Do you know what je ne sais quoi means? Me: I don't know what. Him: I'll tell you. It's a certain extra special something. I don't know the literal translation

Dude named Tom: If I tell you his explanation was correct would I be accused of "mansplaining"?? "Je ne sais quoi" literally translates as "I don't know what" Maud: Mate. What are you doing? Oliver: How! How is this happening? It's like lemmings off a cliff

Was talking to a friend and was suddenly reminded of this absurd exchange that happened on Twitter and Maud Dromgoole's classic response:

Why ‘radical listening’ is key to public radio’s future "Building radical listening and field recording into our program offerings announces to the audience that we understand our public service role as custodians of culture and media representation."

In defence of ‘radical listening’ - an especially timely read in the wake of the cancellation of Short Cuts current.org/2024/11/why-...

BBC Sounds - Dramas - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Dramas on BBC Sounds.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Subscribe to World Service Dramas now and not only get Sasha Yevtushenko’s series Fukushima, but when Iris Yamashita’s Purple Heart Warriors is released, you’ll get it automatically. Win win…

An abstract illustration of cogs and machinery holding a typewriter and pens on a piece of paper, with title 'Writers' Group'

Applications are now open for our Writers' Group ⚡️ Our free introduction to playwriting course, led by Tom Wells, returns in January. Apply before 26 November. Open to anybody with a HU postcode: bit.ly/2yqQOzF

Four smoked eggs

Smoked some eggs

Etymology of the day: to be ‘blowing a hoolie’ (or ‘hooley’) was probably inspired by the Orkney word ‘hoolan’, a howling gale, with a touch of the ‘hooley’ that is a very noisy party thrown in.