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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