1. The Pitmen Flappers & Post Cocktail Party

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Fresh storytelling from first time writers and producers as part of BBC Introducing Arts supported by BBC Arts and Arts Council England. Writer, musician and broadcaster Paul Dodgson presents two thought provoking short dramas from the next generation of dramatists. The Pitmen Flappers is written and directed by Louise Marie Powell. In the dead of night, at the ‘flapping’ or unlicensed greyhound racing track of Wheatley Hill, ex-miner Jimmy meets local loan shark Big Phil. Jimmy defaults on his debt and receives a grim ultimatum: either pay back Big Phil by midnight, or watch his greyhound Tyson’s legs get broken. The Pitman Flappers stars Tony Neilson, Jacqueline Phillips and Jonathan Keeble. It is a Naked Production for Tyneside Cinema. Post Cocktail Party is created by Neil Cullen. The Cocktail Party Effect is the phenomenon of the brain's ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room. Post Cocktail Party is an immersive spatial audio play set amongst a busy gathering of American high society and follows two agents attempting to gather information key to their covert mission. It stars Ashley Johnson, Spence Moore II and Clarke Peters and is produced by Nikita Mohammadi. It is an ICA Production. Presented and produced by Paul Dodgson for BBC Radio 4 Extra