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Manchester Literature Festival 2012: Sally Wainwright Q&A
Watch highlights from our Q&A with writer Sally Wainwright at the Manchester Literature Festival.
Wales Drama Award: Interview with Faith Penhale
Head of BBC Drama Wales and judge of our Wales Drama Award Faith Penhale talks to us about why this is such an exciting time for drama in Wales and what she looks for in a script.
The Little Drummer Girl
John le Carré's novel The Little Drummer Girl comes to BBC One as this autumn's big new drama for Sunday evenings following the success of The Night Manager. We spoke to writers Michael Lesslie and Claire Wilson how they adapted the novel for the screen.
Keeping Faith - Writing and Script Editing the hit Drama
Keeping Faith was first broadcast on BBC One Wales and S4C in spring 2018 and achieved record viewing figures for a non-network drama on BBC iPlayer. Now as it comes to the whole UK on BBC One we spoke to the drama's writer and script editor about its creation.
Creating the Docu-Drama Peking Noir
Peking Noir tells the life story of Shura Giraldi, a Russian émigré to China in the wake of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. But the known facts of Shura's story were incomplete, which is where drama can fill in the gaps. Historian Paul French and Dramatist Sarah Wooley explain how the process worked.
Casualty - Writing Jade's Story
Charlie Swinbourne and Sophie Woolley were both part of our first Writers' Access Group. They have co-written this Saturday's episode of Casualty in which the show's first deaf character, Jade Lovall, meets her birth mother for the first time and finds out why her mother had to give her up.
Gentleman Jack
Sally Wainwright is a 3 time winner of the BAFTA for Best Drama Writer (for Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley). Her new series Gentleman Jack, which she also directs, began on BBC One on Sunday 19th May. Sally explains the background to the series.
Creating Vandullz for BBC Wales' Festival of Funny
We caught up with our former Welsh Voices Leila Navabi and Sion Edwards to hear about working together on a brand new comedy, which goes out this evening on BBC One Wales and BBC iPlayer.
Writing Motherland
Motherland is a new comedy from the minds of Sharon Horgan, Holly Walsh, Graham Linehan and Helen Linehan. After a successful pilot episode which went out on BBC Two last year a full 6-episode series has just launched on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. We spoke to Holly Walsh...
Writing for Radio Comedy
Frankie Ward is the producer of an iBook for new writers with an interest in breaking into the comedy writing industry.
How I found myself inside the Drama Room
Hayley Wareham is part of our 2017 Drama Room writer development group. She explains how she gained a place in the group and what happened on the recent radio day.
The Serpent
Writer Richard Warlow introduces The Serpent, the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most wanted men: thief, frandster and serial killer, Charles Sobhraj was brought to justice. Shot across East and South-East Asia and set during the era of the 1970s 'Hippie Trail'.
Writing and directing McMafia
BBC One’s ground-breaking new international thriller McMafia is an eight-part series created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins and inspired by Misha Glenny’s best-selling book of the same name. Writer/director James Watkins explains further.
Writing Ralph & Katie
Ralph & Katie is a new BBC One drama continuing the story of two of the best-loved characters from Peter Bowker's The A Word. Peter worked with five disabled writers in the creation of Ralph and Katie. One of the writers, Lizzie Watson, explains what happened.
Virtual Reality needs talented writers
Last week we ran a one-day workshop with the BBC's Virtual Reality team for a group of writers who are working in the field of immersive or interactive storytelling or who have a passion to get involved in new forms of storytelling. Find out more from Zillah Watson, the BBC's Editor for Virtual ...
Writing for Doctors - 'The Heart of England'
Katharine Way blogs about celebrating 3000 episodes of 'Doctors', the BBC's daytime continuing drama, and shares three (and a half) top tips for writers.
WRITING TODAY - The US Writers' Strike
In the latest of our series of guest posts from writers talking about the issues that are affecting the industry from their perspective, Josh Weinstein explains the background to the current WGA writers' strike in the USA.
The Newsjack Writers' Room
Claire Wetton started off by submitting sketches to Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack and then was asked to join the show's Writers' Room. She explains what this means with the help of some killer goats...
