Writing for Radio and Podcasts Taster

Writing for Radio and Podcasts Taster 

with Abigail Webber

Sun 20 Oct, 11am - 1pm

£20

Whether you’re a traditional Radio 4 Drama listener or prefer to find your stories on Spotify, if you’re a fan of audio drama, this is the class for you. We’ll look at traditional radio drama broadcasting and commissioning, and how the audio world has expanded with the growth of podcast platforms. For both, though, the principles of creating an audio drama remain the same: writing for a smaller, much more intimate audience, through the medium of sound – voice, music, effects and silence. It requires different writing muscles to screenwriting but many of the principles remain the same: character and story structure are just as important, but dialogue plays a much more dominant role. 

As ever, there will be opportunities to write, workshop and meet other writers.

About Abigail

Abigail Webber has worked in the film and television industry for over twenty years, starting out as a script reader and production assistant and moving on to roles as a script editor, development executive, Commissioning Editor for Drama (C5) and executive producer. More recently she began teaching as a Senior Lecturer in Film & Screen Studies and Media Production at the University of Northampton, specialising in Scriptwriting for Film, Television and Radio. Abigail combines lecturing with freelance script development consulting and, having gained an MA in Screenwriting, is developing her own portfolio of writing for both film and television. She is a member of BAFTA and Women in Film & TV.

Programmed in partnership with the Sir John Hurt Film Trust.