Audio: Playwrights
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Sir Alan Ayckbourn remembers his days with Sir Donald Wolfit
13th October 2016
INTERVIEW: SIR ALAN AYCKBOURN. On the eve of the latest West End revival of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, inspired by Harwood’s years work...
Listen nowin Actors and Performers, Playwrights, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
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Playwright and author Nell Dunn in conversation about her career
22nd July 2016
INTERVIEW: NELL DUNN. Philip Fisher talks to Dunn about her career as a short story writer, novelist, screenwriter and playwright discussing highlig...
Listen nowin Feminism, Playwrights
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John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’ remembered, 60 years on
7th May 2016
INTERVIEW: CORAL ATKINS. The former actress, best known for the ITV series A Family at War, looks back at the Royal Court premiere run of John Osborne...
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Alistair McDowall strands us on Pluto in X
21st April 2016
INTERVIEW: ALISTAIR McDOWALL. Set on Pluto, where a team of British scientists are stranded out in space, cut off from mission control, Alistair McDow...
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Stuart Slade on his post-terrorist comedy BU21
20th April 2016
INTERVIEW: STUART SLADE. The emerging playwright talks to Matt Trueman about his second full-length play BU21, a piece that imagines a plane attacked ...
Listen nowin London Fringe, New Writing, Playwrights, Political Theatre
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Eclipse’s Dawn Walton plots a Revolution Mix
29th March 2016
INTERVIEW: DAWN WALTON The artistic director of Eclipse Theatre Company Dawn Walton tells Matt Trueman about the company's attempt to bolster the stat...
Listen nowin Black Voices, Directors, New Writing, Playwrights, Regional Theatre, Theatre Buildings, Theatre People
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Rebecca Lenkiewicz talks about 18th-century ‘witchcraft’
12th January 2016
INTERVIEW: REBECCA LENKIEWICZ. Judi Herman talks to the playwright whose Jane Wenham, the Witch of Walkern is based on the true story of a woman trie...
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Deborah Bruce’s The Distance is revived at the Orange Tree Theatre
25th November 2015
NTERVIEW: DEBORAH BRUCE The playwright and director talks to Aleks Sierz about the restaging of her well-received new play, The Distance, which has ju...
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Cordelia Lynn discusses Lela & Co.
8th October 2015
INTERVIEW: CORDELIA LYNN The playwright talks about her Royal Court debut play, Lela & Co, an account of a young woman trafficked into a war-torn coun...
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