A five-week live, interactive online course studying radio and podcast drama, and writing your own. Write a complete audio drama over five sessions. These live, interactive online classes will introduce you to the industry and allow you to learn the skills necessary to write drama for BBC radio and podcasts.
This small and friendly group of up to 15 students will look at the new opportunities in this growing industry and explore how to structure audio drama, how to sustain tension in plot, how to build dramatic audio characters and how to write convincing dialogue. We will consider the state of the market now, and what commissioners are looking for from writers.
Each week members of the group will share their work in progress, and by the end of the five weeks you will have a complete 45-minute drama, and a plan for what to do with it next.
Prior to the class you will be sent a listening list of audio dramas to inspire and educate you about the form.
No prior writing experience or knowledge of audio drama is necessary.
Helen Cross is an award winning novelist (author of the novel, My Summer of Love, which became a BAFTA award-winning movie starring Emily Blunt. For the last twenty years Helen also written drama regularly for BBC Radio and a number of overseas broadcasters. Her most recent BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play, The Return of Rowena The Wonderful is available now on BBC Sounds . Her Afternoon Plays have previously won Awards in her BBC Audio Drama Awards including The Innovation Award for the drama Blue Eyed Boy. She has most-recently written two seasons of a highly acclaimed podcast drama series, English Rose, currently available on Spotify, BBC Sounds and Apple Podcasts. Her latest audio work is Flixborough 74, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 28 May 2024.
Dates: Tuesdays, 7-9pm, 4 March - 1 April 2025
Location: Online - live teaching via Zoom
Cost: £175
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