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Radio 3,11 Dec 2014,45 mins

Sarah Waters, TV Drama: Jed Mercurio, Dominic Savage, Caryn Mandabach

Free Thinking

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TV dramatist Jed Mercurio, director Dominic Savage and producer Caryn Mandabach talk to Anne McElvoy about creating successful dramas including The Line of Duty and Peaky Blinders. Novelist Sarah Waters has created a play with Christopher Green called The Frozen Scream. It runs at Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff from 11 to 20 December and then Birmingham Hippodrome from 7 to 17 January. Sarah Waters' latest novel is called The Paying Guests. New Generation Thinker Sarah Peverley looks at Christmas customs in Medieval England. Applications for next year's New Generation Thinker scheme run in conjunction with the AHRC are open until December 15th. Follow the links further down our programme home page. Producer: Craig Templeton-Smith You can download this programme by searching in the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.

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