What Was New 2010
WRITING THE CENTURY 12 (BBC R4) | Tina Pepler
Woman’s Hour Drama 1966-1969 / TRUE TO MY LAND
Tx February 2010; repeated Radio Wales 20 February 2011 . Producer Kate McAll.
A student activist and an eminent historian share a passion for Wales and the Welsh language. The story unfolds in the turbulent 1960’s when Welsh identity was under threat. It is dramatised from diaries and correspondence in the National Library of Wales.
GIGGLEBIZ | Michael Chappell
GIGGLEBIZ is CBeebies' first ever live action sketch show and features the award -winning presenter and entertainer Justin Fletcher getting the under-sixes laughing their socks off with a collection of crazy comedy characters. Michael Chappell has contributed his special comic skills to the series and was the lead writer on the GIGGLEBIZ Christmas Special 2010. Series 2 is transmitting winter/spring 2011.
DOWNTON ABBEY | Tina Pepler
Tina's episode of DOWNTON ABBEY co-written with series creator Julian Fellowes (Carnival for ITV1) went out in October 2010. Tina and Julian took us to an election rally which nearly had disastrous consequences for politically conscious Lady Sybil. This perfect Sunday night series ended on a high of around 11 million viewers and plugged into our enduring fascination for social history and nostalgia.GOODBYE TO BERLIN | Tina Pepler
BBC Radio 4 broadcast a two-part adaptation by Tina Pepler of Christopher Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical short novel GOODBYE TO BERLIN (the basis for the iconic 1966 film CABARET). Tina Pepler and director Polly Thomas created a poignant tableau of cash-strapped, hedonistic, increaingly bigoted Berlin as the growing influence of the Nazi party cast an ever greater shadow.
'this is a fine adaptation...vividly drawn characters and a real sense of menace as anti-semitism grew louder within (Germany).' (Guardian)
BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial, October 2010.
F**KING MEN | Laurence Mark Wythe
Joe DiPietro's F**KING MEN @ Bailiwick Chicago, Directed by Tom Mullen. Original Music by Laurence Mark Wythe, June - August 2010
2.36PM | Paul Walker
27 June 2010 / Sunday Playhouse on RTE Radio 1
A radio play: 2.36PM - a tale of love, cancer and Thierry Henri. With a superb cast led by Liam Carney and Hilda Fay and guest appearances by Ryan Tubridy and George Hamilton.
OTIENO| Poppy Burton-Morgan
OTIENO, a hard-hitting rewiring of Shakespeare's OTHELLO set in Mugabe's Zimbabwe with a four star review from The Times, directed by Poppy Burton-Morgan at Southwark Playhouse, May- June 2010.
CURRENT ANIMATION | Allan Plenderleith
Animation March & April 2010 on Milkshake! strand on Five each morning:
NODDY Noddy and the Cuckoo and Tessie and the Fairycakes
THOMAS AND FRIENDS Tickled Pink & Thomas and the Pigs
CiTV: HORRID HENRY Horrid Henry & The Go-Cart
NO PLACE LIKE HOME (BBC R4) | Robert Rigby
tx March 2010, BBC R4 Afternoon Play
A 45' drama about two men caught up in the randomness of fate. A bizarre and revealing relationship develops between them when one man confronts the other, an intruder, with a legally owned shotgun. Starring Alex Jennings and Toby Stephens and co-written and directed by Nick Russell-Pavier.
DRIVER DAN'S STORY TRAIN
3 Line Media and twofour54, Abu Dhabi's new HD series for CBeebies DRIVER DAN'S STORY TRAIN (tx from January 2010). Allan Plenderleith and George Tarry are both on the writing team. Check it out for superb storytelling and production values.
Cbeebies Winter-Spring 2010
6.00pm daily from 6 April 2010
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