Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2017
Posts (8)
Drama Room - My journey & advice for writers...
Daniel Hopewell blogs about his journey with writersroom and shares his advice to writers.
Man in an Orange Shirt - Patrick Gale on his screenwriting debut for the BBC and his writing career
Patrick Gale's novels include Notes from an Exhibition and A Place Called Winter. His screenwriting debut is broadcast on BBC Two as part of the Gay Britannia season which marks 50 years since the Sexual Offences Act.
Introducing the 2017 BBC Writersroom Drama Room
Following our open submission script room window at the beginning of 2017 meet the 20 writers who are going to be part of our 2017 Drama Room.
Winning the Alfred Bradley Bursary Award - I now feel able to call myself a writer
Piers Black was the winner of the 2016 Alfred Bradley Bursary award for Radio Drama writers in the North of England. He recently heard his winning play made into a Radio 4 drama. You can hear the results on Monday 17th July and on BBC iPlayer.
Girls - Theresa Ikoko brings her award-winning play about the kidnapping of three Nigerian girls to Radio 4
Theresa is also a former member of our Drama Room development group. We asked her about transferring a stage play to a different medium and what she learnt from the process.
In the Dark - Danny Brocklehurst on adapting Mark Billingham's novels for BBC One
Danny Brocklehurst's adaptation of Mark Billingham's novels for BBC One stars MyAnna Buring as DI Helen Weeks, who grapples with pregnancy as she undertakes a very personal abduction case.
"As If We Never Said Goodbye" - from Continuing Drama Actor to Writer
Maryam Hamidi spent 3 and a half years playing Leyla Brodie in BBC One Scotland's River City. She recently returned for our residential workshop for writers interested in working on the weekly hour-long continuing drama.
Treatments, Pitches, Outlines - WHAT ARE THEY?
Philip Shelley is a Script Consultant and Producer and runs Channel 4's Screenwriting Course. He explains all the writing which a working screenwriter needs to do (and embrace) outside of writing the actual script.
