Creative Writing - Audio

Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing... Read more

Playwright Helen Blakeman sees setting as integral to a play’s success and highlights the supporting importance of facto... Read more

Playwriting master Alan Ayckbourn reveals how he develops and connects ideas for his plays, and the meticulous process o... Read more

Ayckbourn's approach to redrafting and rewriting scripts, and how dramatic ideas and twists emerge.

Alan Ayckbourn's work as a director, and how this informs his writing. The economy of playwriting, and the writer’s awar... Read more

Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the theatre, Alan Ayckbourn offers an insight into the varius methods of staging, d... Read more

Renowned writer David Edgar discusses his ideas on Aristotle’s unities, linking this to ways of adapting existing works.

Novelist and playwright Jane Rogers talks about the transition of one of her novels, Mr. Wroe’s Virgins, into a four par... Read more

Jane Rogers talks about her work as a novelist, and the methods of storytelling and voice she employs. She brings toget... Read more

Jane Rogers talks about her work in terms of viewing herself as a contemporary novelist. She draws links to literary gr... Read more