If you haven’t been following us on Facebook, or even if you have, I’m delighted to share that the Little Wonder Radio Plays (almost) complete collection is now live and free to stream: 10–20-minute full cast audio dramas with award winning writers, professionally trained actors, and no adverts or paywalls. Just quality drama, for free, because we love making it.
You can stream all the plays below or visit our Little Wonder Radio Plays pages for more information. The rest of this article will talk about the Little Wonder relaunch, our first three plays, and links so that you can listen to all our material.
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The cast list an essential part of your script. With the winner of our Breaking Boundaries competition ready to be announced later today, and our latest general competition still running, now is a good moment to look at this often overlooked part of your writing. As a writer, you must always remember that some poor bloody producer/director/casting director must pick up your words and turn them into something that works on screen, stage or radio. That doesn’t start with the title. It doesn’t start with the first line, or even with the pitch. It starts with the cast list.
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Show off your work – or just show off this cool show you’ve found.
All our shows are published under a creative commons no derivative license, which means you are free to share and republish our work provided you don’t make any changes and you credit it back to us.
If you have written or performed for us or, hell, even if you just like our work and want to show it to more people (yay!), you may be interested to know that you can embed a media player on your website or into your social media feed that will allow people to listen to the chosen show directly from your post! This is a great addition to your on-line portfolio, will pull more people into listen to your work/this work you enjoy, and will make us happy by helping more people to hear our work. So how do you do it?
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Congratulations on winning the Little Wonder Radio Play Competition 2018! How do you feel? What was the biggest thing you learned?
Thank you – it’s been very exciting! The winner was announced on New Year’s Eve, so a positive ending to 2018. A big lesson in this process is the importance of finding the right medium for a story. DRIVERLESS was inspired by an exhibition about future technology at the V&A Museum where I spent a long time (probably too long!) in a driverless car simulator. I knew there was a story to be told and my first thought was to write it as a stage play for a Twilight Zone inspired evening. However cars on stage are usually portrayed with actors just plonked on chairs, which rarely really works. When I heard about the Little Wonder Radio Competition I adapted the draft stage piece for the radio which felt like its natural home.
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It’s finally here! After months of writing, reading, revisions, commenting, re-revising, hoping and repeated checking of emails, the shortlisted plays of the Little Wonder Radio Plays Competition 2018 will be receive a public reading this Sunday. After the reading, the audience will vote on their favourite piece, and their votes will be combined with judges scoring to choose the winner- announced on New Years Eve. Full details of the reading are below – good luck to all or shortlisted writers!
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