Podcasts about bbc radio drama

Chetna Pandya is an Actor, Director, Producer and Creative advocate, most recently known to many for her role as Coach Singh in Heartstopper (Netflix) and for her extensive acting career in TV shows such as The Trouble with Maggie Cole, This Way Up, Feel Good and Black Mirror. She has worked nationally and internationally across stage, television, film & radio performing with Complicité, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court Theatre and BBC Radio Drama to name a few.In this conversation Chetna passionately advocates for access to the arts, sharing insights into her own experiences growing up, and how meaningful socio-economic diversity and inclusion can affect change.Chetna discusses how she has found the resilience to overcome barriers in her 22-year career in a changing industry, and shares her personal mindset for how to remain true to oneself as a professional artist. Hosts & Guests:Ali Godfrey (Host)Unique Spencer (Host)Chetna Pandya (Guest)Send us a Text Message with your thoughts about our podcast or ideas for future episodesEmail: actingstrong@generationarts.org.ukwww.actingstrong.comSocial Media:@ActingStrongInstagram: @GEN_ARTSFacebook & X: @GenerationArtsProduced & Edited by: Ali GodfreyActing Strong is brought to you by Generation Arts and sponsored by the Royal Central School of Speech and Dramawww.generationarts.org.ukwww.cssd.ac.uk

The Rogue Agents return! Starring Jarrod Alberich - Jason Alberich - Delvin Williams - Pat Sampson - & Alan J. Porter.  This episode:  Jarrod has the lead, and the lads talk all about "From Russia with Love" - the Radio Drama from BBC Radio 4. Wanna be part of the show? EMail us your questions or comments - feel free to email us an audio file - to: OHMSPOD@outlook.com Or leave a voice mail: 707-532-5269 If you like our style AND you like comic books, check out the fellas on their other channel: The Longbox Crusade at www.LongboxCrusade.com Be a part of the White Rocket Entertainment family by becoming a patron of the shows-we thank you by name on every episode: https://www.patreon.com/vanallenplexico Brought to you by White Rocket Entertainment and by Audible.com. Find links to everything we do at www.plexico.net

The Rogue Agents return! Starring Jarrod Alberich - Jason Alberich - Delvin Williams - Pat Sampson - & Alan J. Porter.  This episode:  Jarrod has the lead, and the lads talk all about "Diamonds Are Forever" - the Radio Drama from BBC Radio 4. Wanna be part of the show? EMail us your questions or comments - feel free to email us an audio file - to: OHMSPOD@outlook.com Or leave a voice mail: 707-532-5269 If you like our style AND you like comic books, check out the fellas on their other channel: The Longbox Crusade at www.LongboxCrusade.com Be a part of the White Rocket Entertainment family by becoming a patron of the shows-we thank you by name on every episode: https://www.patreon.com/vanallenplexico Brought to you by White Rocket Entertainment and by Audible.com. Find links to everything we do at www.plexico.net

Lillian and Piper discuss an audio drama that was recorded for Charlotte Bronte's birthday. It's wonderful and we loved it, but don't tell the IRS...or the NRA... or the IRA for that matter.

Ian McMillan celebrates 100 years of BBC Radio Drama with brand new commissions - from writers Alex Riddle, Georgia Affonso. Tim Barrow, and the poet Michael Symmons Roberts. This is a homage to what Ian describes as a form which feels 'as new as cinema and as old as a whispered story in a dark cave in winter', with tales of mysterious islands and time travel, the intimacy of the optometrist's gaze, and the power of friendship. Michael Symmons Roberts's poem is a commission for our 'Something Old, Something New' series, and evokes a frozen Atlantic - its sound and its shiver.

Tabitha Potts and Martin Nathan interview best-selling novelist and short story writer Kate Mosse and playwright and debut novelist Greg Mosse, whose novel The Coming Darkness (Moonflower Books) is publishing on the 10th November. Early praise for Greg Mosse's dystopian thriller have included Lee Child's review: "Greg Mosse writes like John le Carre's hip grandson" We interviewed both writers about their writing techniques in a wide-ranging discussion of their work. Kate Mosse is the best-selling author of ten novels and short story collections including the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel - and Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter, which she has adapted for the stage for 2022. Greg Mosse is currently the founder and leader of the Criterion New Writing script development programme at the Criterion Theatre, London, Since 2015, he has written and produced 25 plays and musicals, often in collaboration. During the coronavirus lockdowns, he wrote two-and-a-half novels, of which The Coming Darkness will be the first to be published. The producer was Tabitha Potts. She is a writer living in East London. She has had several short stories published in print and online and short-listed for various awards, most recently the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize. In a previous life, she was a BBC Radio Drama producer. Read more at http://www.tabithapotts.com.

The Rogue Agents return! Starring Jarrod Alberich - Jason Alberich - Delvin Williams - Pat Sampson - & Alan J. Porter.  This episode:  Delvin takes over for a sickly Jarrod! The remaining lads talk all about "Moonraker" - the Radio Drama from BBC Radio 4. Wanna be part of the show? EMail us your questions or comments - feel free to email us an audio file - to: OHMSPOD@outlook.com Or leave a voice mail: 707-532-5269 If you like our style AND you like comic books, check out the fellas on their other channel: The Longbox Crusade at www.LongboxCrusade.com Be a part of the White Rocket Entertainment family by becoming a patron of the shows-we thank you by name on every episode: https://www.patreon.com/vanallenplexico Brought to you by White Rocket Entertainment and by Audible.com. Find links to everything we do at www.plexico.net

In an illustrious career which included the longest-running comedy in the history of the West End, a hit film with Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn, one of ITV’s most successful sitcoms of the 1970s, another of ITV’s most successful sitcoms of the 1980s, awards and fortunes, made and lost, my father, Terence Frisby regarded Kisses on a Postcard as the best thing he ever wrote. I couldn’t agree more. It has everything.Kisses began in 1988 as a radio play, Just Remember Two Things: It’s Not Fair And Don’t Be Late, a series of reminiscences about Dad’s experiences as an evacuee during World War Two. BBC Radio broadcast the play ten times, creating some sort of record, and it received the biggest audience response that anyone in the BBC Radio Drama department could remember. It won the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Play and was mentioned critically in the same breath as Under Milk Wood and Cider With Rosie. It was then optioned to be a film, where it got stuck in development hell for fifteen years, and the film was never made. Dad’s close friend Jeremy James Taylor, founder of the National Youth Musical Theatre, meanwhile, had been nagging him to turn it into a stage musical and a chance encounter on a golf course in 2002 was the catalyst. I’ve had the theatre shoved down my throat since an early age, but against all expectation this tiny community theatre project at the Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple, North Devon, with mostly amateur performers, and a little known Welsh actor by the name of Derek Crewe in the main role, was the best thing I ever saw in the theatre. I remember saying to Dad at the time, even if nothing more ever happens with this, you can go to your grave knowing that no one else has ever done that to a room. We tried for many years to raise the three million pounds we needed to bring it to the West End, but then ran into the global financial crisis. I remember giving a presentation one evening in Mayfair at a billionaire’s club. There were more than 20 billionaires in the room. It was 6th of October 2008, the day the Icelandic banks went down. It was hard to secure their interest. Then in 2010 Bloomsbury, commissioned a book, which, as is the case with everyone who runs into this story, was loved by all who read it. In 2013 there was another production in Barnstaple, but again the West End producers didn’t come. My father died in April, 2020. Kisses on a Postcard is too special to remain just a script and a CD on a shelf. I did not have the means to turn it into a film or a stage show, but I did have the means to turn it into an audiobook and that is what I have done. Dad would have been more ruthless with the script than I have and kept it to two hours. I have let it run much longer. With good reason. This story will disarm you in the most unexpected ways. You will find yourself laughing and weeping at just what wonderful things the kindest of human beings can be. I hope you enjoy it. And if you do, please tell your friends. Thank you. Dominic Frisby.PS Order original Kisses on a Postcard CDs here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kisses.substack.com

The Rogue Agents return! Starring Jarrod Alberich - Jason Alberich - Delvin Williams - Pat Sampson - & Alan J. Porter.  This episode:  Alan J. Porter officially joins the Rogue Agents team! The lads welcome guest Agent I - Joseph Iliff! And we're gonna talk all about "Live and Let Die" - the Radio Drama from BBC Radio 4. Wanna be part of the show? EMail us your questions or comments - feel free to email us an audio file - to: OHMSPOD@outlook.com Or leave a voice mail: 707-532-5269 If you like our style AND you like comic books, check out the fellas on their other channel: The Longbox Crusade at www.LongboxCrusade.com Be a part of the White Rocket Entertainment family by becoming a patron of the shows-we thank you by name on every episode: https://www.patreon.com/vanallenplexico Brought to you by White Rocket Entertainment and by Audible.com. Find links to everything we do at www.plexico.net

With listeners concerned about cuts to BBC radio drama and asking if it's still a priority for Radio 4, a former head of BBC Radio Drama tells Roger Bolton she shares those concerns. And the Editor of The Reunion discusses the usually acclaimed programme and replies to criticism of an edition about Romanian orphanages, which one listener describes as, “flaunting of British superiority”. And can you make a successful radio programme about cartoon music when you can't see the cartoons? Two listeners give their views. Presenter: Roger Bolton Producer: Kate Dixon Executive Producer: Samir Shah A Juniper Connect production for BBC Radio 4

For their final romp through Middle-earth, Lauren and Nicole are joined by comedian and podcaster Kevin T. Porter (Good Christian Fun, Gilmore Guys) to explore the much-loved 1981 BBC radio drama adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.Nothing is held back in this final installment of Season 2 as Lauren and Nicole reflect back on their experience with The Lord of the Rings franchise, and what they'd like to explore for Season 3. Kevin and Lauren also share their love of disembodied voices as Nicole reveals her revulsion towards it, and Kevin plays out the season with a heartwarming impromptu piano arrangement of The Lord of the Rings theme music.Like the show? Rate Newcomers 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know your thoughts on this season, and what we should explore for Season 3!Sources for this episode:Article on 4K re-release detailsTrivia from LOTR.Fandom.comAdvertise on Newcomers via Gumball.fm

Welcome to Chippy Lane’s Podcast, series two the PICTURES / LLUNIAU PROJECT. This series celebrates Welsh and Wales-based writers and their stories. This is our Xmas 2020 special, an extract from CARDBOARD DAD by Alan Harris. Donna waits for David, alone in they're flat. Alone, that is, until she gets a special cardboard delivery that turns her world inside out. Alan Harris's bitter-sweet comedy, tells the tale of a woman who realises that second best is never enough.Writer: Alan Harris Plays written for theatres throughout the UK and internationally, including Paines Plough, Manchester Royal Exchange, the Sherman Theatre and National Theatre Wales. He won a Judge's Award at the Bruntswood Prize for How My Light Is Spent. Musicals and opera include the book for The Scythe of Time at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The Left Behind (BBC Studios/BBC3) won the BAFTA for Best Single Drama (and BAFTA Cymru for Best Television Drama). He has also written plays for BBC Radio 4, Radio 3 and Amazon Audible. Director: Hannah Noone Alumni of the Sherman Theatre’s JMK Directors Group (supported by The Carne Trust), Co-Artistic Director of Opera'r Ddraig and an Associate Director for Chippy Lane. Directing credits include: Lung Water - Network Reading (Chippy Lane / NTW / Sherman), TEN/DEG (Sherman Theatre), Elixir of Love (Opera’r Ddraig / Kings Head), Arcadia (RWCMD), Worlds Apart in War (Theatr Clwyd / National Trust), Between Eternity & Time (RWCMD / Sherman Theatre), BoHo (Hijinx / Theatr Clwyd). She has also worked as Assistant Director and Staff Director at the Royal Opera House and The National.Performer: Cecilia Appiah Cecilia is a recent graduate of BA Acting at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama class of 2020. Since graduating she has been working with BBC Radio Drama as part of the radio drama company where she has been working on various plays including The Son, Life is a Radio in the dark and Wasteland all aired on Radio 4 and 3. She has recently filmed an episode for BBC Casualty and participated in the play reading of Gull with the Far Away Plays. Performer: Luke Nunn A 2020 graduate from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Since graduating Luke has been part of the Radio Drama Company at the BBC working on a number of projects including: Keeping the Wolf Out, Life is a Radio in the Dark and Clash. Luke has most recently finished shooting a feature film (The Road Dance) on the Isle of Lewis. Sound Designer: Charlie ForanCharlie is a graduate of the BA (Hons) Stage Management and Technical Theatre Course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. During that time, specialising in live sound engineering, theatrical sound design and recording. Charlie has worked on productions such as An Octoroon at The National and Witness for the Prosecution at County Hall. Alongside these productions, Charlie has worked on podcasts with Unheard Poetry on their Pride and Protest series and on Chippy Lane Productions (Samu(El)egy) and THE STARS IN THE DARKROOM.  Written by Alan Harris Directed by Hannah Noone Performed by Cecilia Appiah featuring Luke NunnSound Design By Charlie ForanProduced & Edited by Chippy Lane Productions Ltd. Music by Grand Tradition  This podcast has been kindly supported by The Carne Trust.

In this short story, two city-dwellers move to a remote house in the countryside and are unsettled by their experiences in their new home. Written, produced and read by Tabitha Potts Tabitha Potts is a writer living in East London. She has had several short stories published in print and online and been short-listed and long-listed for various awards, most recently the Sunderland University Short Story Award. In a past life, she was a BBC Radio Drama producer. Read more at http://www.tabithapotts.com  This podcast uses these FX sounds from freesound: Spookywood.mp3 by priestjd (https://freesound.org/people/priestjd/) Magpie_WingsFlapping.wav by digifishmusic https://freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/) Original music composed by Rufus Harman

This piece features the character “The Lady Noor” from the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities miniseries “The Angel’s Calling” by Victoria J Price Noor is played by Iraqi / Norwegian actress Saya Zahawi who has appeared in a number of Alternative Stories episodes and in BBC Radio Drama. Music and sound design are by Chris Gregory Transcript :                 “Call it magic, call it energy, call it what you will. Often it is our belief in something that helps the magic to grow. Witches like you and I hold the power within our fingertips to change the world.  We can save a life, maybe many lives and all you need is soap and water.”  About Alternative Stories and Fake Realities  Alternative Stories and Fake Realities is an anthology podcast producing audio drama, short fiction and poetry using writers and actors from both sides of the Atlantic from its base right in the middle of England. You can find us by searching alternative stories in your favourite podcast app or clicking on https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730 We’re social on twitter https://twitter.com/StoriesAlt And Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stories.alt/ Email:  office@alternativestories.com  

Crow Girl is a 'folk horror' tale of a young girl found abandoned in a hedgerow and brought up in a remote village. She has a hard and loveless life and struggles to survive - her only allies are the birds she befriends. © Tabitha Potts all rights reserved. Tabitha Potts is a writer living in East London. She has had several short stories published in print and online and been short-listed and long-listed for various awards, most recently the Sunderland University Short Story Award. In a past life, she was a BBC Radio Drama producer. Read more at http://www.tabithapotts.com  This short story uses the following sound from Freesounds under CC0: Crows.wav by ken788 The illustration for Crow Girl is by Amy Shepheard Music is created by Rufus Harman.

I spent a lot of years with a scattergun approach to life, doing a bit of this and a bit of that, but always leaning towards my creative side. I worked for BBC Radio Drama, wrote and directed plays, self published a novel, trained and then practised as an Alexander Technique teacher, and wrote marketing materials for small companies, to name a few. Then the unthinkable happened, I became a full time carer for, and then lost, my lovely husband. Life didn

Cherry Cookson is a multi award-winning radio producer and director with over 35 years experience at the BBC. She has worked with the best of British actors, including Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Vanessa Redgrave, producing and directing plays of outstanding quality often under significant time and money constraints. She is known for her high standards and attention to detail, and the ability to work well with a wide range of people. She has produced and directed many outstanding Classic Serials for the BBC by authors such as Charlotte Bronte and Wilkie Collins, and has made bold casting choices often using now famous actors at the start of their careers such as Bill Nighy, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen and Colin Firth. Her original casting of Janet McTeer in the role of Nora in A DOLL’S HOUSE led to the actress’s subsequent career on Broadway in the same role, which led her to Hollywood and Oscar nomination. Recently she has recorded several plays for Wireless Theatre including five multi-cast dramas for Audible, and produced several audiobooks.#audiobooks #radiodrama #radiodramadirector #radiodirector #cherrycookson #bbc #audible

The official start of Knightfall is here with Batman #492 and Detective Comics #659. Rob and Terence talk and discuss the importance of Knightfall not only to Batman but as the spring board to the Robin title. They also discuss Tim pre-New 52 vs post-New 52 Tim. Plus the BBC Radio Drama will take us […]

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights and theatremakers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse. In this episode, Emma speaks to Chris Campbell and Sasha Dugdale about the art of translation. A translator and poet, Sasha Dugdale has translated many plays from Russian for theatres around the world, including the Royal Court Theatre, the Traverse Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio Drama. She also translates poetry and short stories, and her translation of the poet Elena Shvarts’ Birdsong on the Seabed (Bloodaxe) was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation and shortlisted for the Popescu and Rossica Prizes. Sasha translated 'Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha' by Ukrainian playwright Natalia Vorozhbyt as part of Traverse Theatre A Play, A Pie and A Pint Spring Season 2015. Chris Campbell has worked as an actor at theatres including The National, The Royal Court, The Traverse, The West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Birmingham Rep, The Gate and English Touring Theatre. Directors have included Howard Davies, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Wilson, William Gaskill, Erica Whyman, Stephen Daldry, Ian Brown and Annie Castledine. He most recently appeared alongside Meryl Streep in 'The Iron Lady'. He has translated plays by Philippe Minyana, David Lescot, Rémi de Vos, Adeline Picault, Magali Mougel, Launcelot Hamelin, Frédéric Blanchette, Catherine-Anne Toupin and Fabrice Roger-Lacan for The National, The Almeida, The Donmar, The Traverse, The Birmingham Rep and The Young Vic among others. Chris was Deputy Literary Manager of the National Theatre for six years and is currently Literary Manager of the Royal Court. In 2014, Chris was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Chris translated 'Right Now' by Quebecois playwright and actor Catherine-Anne Toupin. Right Now is presented by the Traverse Theatre Company in May 2015. Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced by Cian O Siochain and Eleanor Pender Devised and engineered by Cian O Siochain

"What would happen if Dracula came to America today?" With that conversational inquiry Stephen King was inspired to write the novel 'Salem's Lot. King's second published book, 'Salem's Lot was a bestseller, cementing King's reputation among horror fans. The books' success then translated to a television mini-series directed by Tobe Hooper. 'Salem's Lot is almost 40 years old but thanks to Twilight vampire fiction is more popular than ever. With all that has come in between, does King's vampire story still have bite or does it just suck? Listen to Arnie's review to find out as he analyzes the themes of King's book and investigates how this plot resembles some of King's other fiction. Even included in this show is analysis of the cut passages from 'Salem's Lot, published in the book's 30th Anniversary Edition, as well as the 1995 BBC Radio Drama adaptation. All in this podcast continuing our Stephen King series! And join Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob at nowplayingpodcast.com to hear their reviews of the three 'Salem's Lot TV and movie adaptations! Download the 'Salem's Lot BBC Radio Drama from Tales of Horror Podcast

Pladio Rays presents a special recording of Sophie by Bryan Willis that was produced by BBC Radio Drama in Manchester, England.