So You Want to Write Radio Drama?

An essential guide for anyone who dreams of penning tomorrow's radio classics.

Claire Grove was a Sony Radio Academy Award-winning radio producer who created over three hundred dramas for BBC Radio 4, Radio 3 and the World Service, including Classic Chandler, a landmark series dramatizing all eight Philip Marlowe novels, and The Complete Ripley. She died in 2013 after a battle with cancer.

Stephen Wyatt is the only writer to have won the Tinniswood Award for best radio drama script twice ? for Memorials to the Missing in 2007 and Gerontius in 2011. He’s written over twenty original scripts for radio and numerous dramatizations. He’s also written for television (Doctor Who and Casualty) and his theatre work has been seen everywhere from London’s West End to the Bubble Theatre’s touring tent. In conjunction with New Writing South and the University of Sussex, he created the UK’s first online radio drama course in 2009. His first novel, Big Dipper, was published in 2012.