Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2018
Posts (5)
The ABC Murders
'The ABC Murders' is Sarah Phelps fourth Agatha Christie adaptation following 'And Then There Were None', 'Witness for the Prosecution' and 'Ordeal by Innocence'. She explains why this story appealed to her, her version of Poirot, the 1933 setting and why she chose this particular Poirot as her ...
Adapting Watership Down for BBC One
Tom Bidwell has adapted Richard Adams much-loved novel for BBC One. He explains how he got into scriptwriting, what it meant to win an Oscar for his short film Wish 143, how he works across genres from Katy (CBBC) to My Mad Fat Diary (E4) and describes meeting Richard Adams and his family.
An introduction to writing for BBC Children's (CBeebies and CBBC)
Chris Cantrill is one half of sketch comedy double-act The Delightful Sausage and part of our Comedy Room writer development group for 2018/19. He recently attended our introduction to Children's day at Media City in Salford, run in conjunction with the Drama Room development group.
Comedy Room - Day Two
Omar Parvaz is one of the 15 writers in our Comedy Room writer development group for 2018/19. He describes their second development day which focussed on TV comedy writing.
Some stories are difficult to tell - working with BBC Children in Need
The BBC Writersroom team in Wales recently partnered with BBC Children in Need, placing writer Daf James in the Roots Foundation in Swansea. 'Reputations' is a combination of many stories and people Daf encountered there, written as spoken word, poetry and song.
