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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Feb 23

BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Feb 22

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

BBC World Service - BBC World Drama - The International Audio Drama Competition 2026: How to enter

How to submit your play for the International Audio Drama Competition 2026

www.bbc.co.uk

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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · Feb 7

Next Thurs 13 Feb is World Radio Day, but audio drama is under serious threat

Share a short video to tell BBC Director General Tim Davie + the BBC why audio drama is important to you, the wider UK drama ecosystem + why you oppose their cuts

More info 🔽

writersguild.org.uk/save-audio-d...

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Jan 28

I've just spotted that LITTLE MUSPRATT is on BBC Sounds (for the next month) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Little Muspratt by Penelope Mortimer - BBC Sounds

A widow moves to a new village and hopes to befriend a novelist. Stars Mary Wimbush.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social · Jan 21

"The BBC is wrong to axe drama on Radio 3 – here’s why it matters"
My piece for @thestage.bsky.social on the importance (past & present) of BBC Radio 3 drama: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a...
#RadioDrama @writersguildgb.bsky.social @equityuk.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social

Andrea Smith: The BBC is wrong to axe drama on Radio 3 – here’s why it matters

Radio drama has been at the heart of the BBC since it began broadcasting in November 1922. The first play written for children was aired…

edition.thestage.co.uk

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Dr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social · Jan 21

Absolutely, Lisa. Read more about this here: edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/21/a...

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Dr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social · Jan 22

Following on from my piece in @thestage.bsky.social yesterday about the importance of drama on BBC Radio 3 (and the decision to axe it), @eggsbened.bsky.social explains why size is important...
edition.thestage.co.uk/2025/01/22/d...

David Benedict: How long should a play be? Probably not 45 minutes

How long does a play last? Dumb question, I know – up there with ‘How long is lunch?’. The most recent bid for the longest…

edition.thestage.co.uk

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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · Jan 14

Today, alongside @equityuk.bsky.social + @societyofauthors.bsky.social, we have launched a petition calling on Director-General of the BBC Tim Davie to rethink plans to eradicate audio drama from BBC Radio 3

Sign the petition to Save Audio Drama at the BBC

www.change.org/SADatTheBBC

Sign the Petition

Save Audio Drama at the BBC

www.change.org

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Jan 13

“I have conversed with the spiritual sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill”. Wm Blake.

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Dec 5

Yes - it's war. With newts. Put on your goggles. Pull on your wet suit. Sunday 8.00pm BBC Radio 3 - and after @bbcsounds.bsky.social @edmundharris.bsky.social @reducedlistening.bsky.social @bbcradio3.bsky.social

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, War with the Newts

By Ed Harris adapted from Karel Čapek’s 1936 novel. With Doña Croll and Laura Elphinstone.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Dec 1

@edharrisblue.bsky.social has woven a great new thread through Capek’s nightmare vision.

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Dec 1

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Coming up on Sunday 8th December. Be afraid. Very afraid.

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, War with the Newts

By Ed Harris adapted from Karel Čapek’s 1936 novel. With Doña Croll and Laura Elphinstone.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Nov 27

Back in the day when some uni theses were typed up a friend found that her dissertation on Webster’s heroine was renamed ‘the Duchess of half;’. Strangely satisfying now that I only got to see half of the production tonight. ;;;;;;;;

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · Nov 25

'There was change in the air, a hunger for art that escaped committees and censorship – even for Bacon’s brand of (exuberant) nihilism.

Francis Bacon in Moscow.

The story of an exhibition - and a BBC Radio 3 play on the same theme

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Bacon in Moscow - Bacon in Moscow

How Francis Bacon became the first major Western artist to exhibit solo in the USSR.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Nov 24

Anohni sings Lou Reed. Astonishing.

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Nov 21

What a lot of fine audiotypes ! Glad to be among them.

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Nov 21

Loved this. Thank you !

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Nov 20

Well, to be honest, it wasn’t quite.

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Josh Nawras @joshnawras.bsky.social · Nov 20

In 2015 we stumbled across an old ambulance depot in Tottenham Hale.

over the next 5 years we would turn it into a space for us to experiment, our first show an audio adventure saw audience members shot out of the warehouse in coffins down a canal we built in the car park!

#theatre #music #myths

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Nov 20

All’s Well

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Nov 20

Tempted.

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Nov 20

Such an important discussion - something we all need to pay attention to. Thanks for the link.

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Nov 20

Some of the best radio I have ever heard. I have learned so much from these pieces.

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Josh Nawras @joshnawras.bsky.social · Nov 19

Spent today with Felix at Hall for Cornwall, sharing our learnings from the past 15 years.

It made me grateful for a shared adventure that’s seen us produce dozens of plays in crazy spaces, cycle the length of the USA, bus to Singapore and much much more.

#theatre #travel #cornwall #adventures

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Jeremy Mortimer @jeremort.bsky.social · Nov 19

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... just caught up with this. Will Young is brilliant. And the sound design is magical. Bravo @jonnicholls.bsky.social and Polly Thomas and Eloise Whitmore.

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Song from Far Away

Will Young's solo tour de force about family, loss and the faces of love. Strong language.

www.bbc.co.uk

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