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Syndication

A recording from the Writers' Guild's annual meeting of literary managers from theatres across the country.

Direct download: LiteraryManagers2012.mp3
Category:Theatre -- posted at: 9:08 AM

Darren Rapier speaks to two-time Tinniswood Award winner Stephen Wyatt about writing for stage and TV and radio.

Direct download: StephenWyatt.mp3
Category:Theatre -- posted at: 1:15 PM

Author, biographer and travel writer Lucinda Hawksley talks about her work, including Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens’s Artist Daughter.

Recorded at the Guild's Off The Shelf At Black's Event, March 2012.

Direct download: LucindaHawksley.mp3
Category:Books -- posted at: 9:07 AM

Screenwriter Lindsay Shapero talks to Oscar-winning British editor Jim Clark about his work on films such as Marathon Man, The Killing Fields and Vera Drake, and his thoughts about writing and writers. Jim's memoir Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing (with John H Myers) is published by LandMarc Press.

Direct download: JimClark.mp3
Category:Film -- posted at: 8:50 AM

Amanda Whittington (playwright and Chair of the Writers' Guild Theatre Committee introduces three speakers at the Guild's Literary Managers meeting 2011: Kate Chapman (Director, Theatre Writing Partnership), Caroline Jester (Dramaturg, Birmingham Repertory Theatre) David Edgar - pictured (playwright and President of the Writers' Guild).

Direct download: Development.mp3
Category:Theatre -- posted at: 9:31 AM

Carol Topolski, author of Monster Love and Do No Harm, offers an insight into her writing process.

Direct download: CarolTopolski.mp3
Category:Books -- posted at: 9:56 AM

Richard Bradbury talks about his work, including Riversmeet - a biography of Frederick Douglass, escaped slave and anti-slavery campaigner.

Photo (right to left): Jan Woolf (WGGB Books Committee) and Richard Bradbury with the actors who read some of Richard's work ( Nicholas Bailey, Maureen Casey, Aidan Casey)

Direct download: RichardBradbury.mp3
Category:Books -- posted at: 10:57 AM

In the third of the Writers' Guild's Off the Shelf at Black's events, Jake Wallis Simons (pictured with Jan Woolf from the Guild's Books Committee) talks about his latest novel The English German Girl.

Direct download: JakeWallisSimons.mp3
Category:Books -- posted at: 9:58 AM

Susan Calman (stand-up comic and star of Radio 4’s News Quiz) chairs a panel discussing whether it has become easier for women writers to break into comedy.
She is joined by Jo Bunting (producer of Have I Got News For You and That Sunday Show), Claire Zolkwer (head of comedy at ITV), Tamzin Cary executive producer of Paul and writer of new movie Albatross, and Andrea Mann (comedy writer).
 
Recorded at the Free Word Centre in London, 23 November 2011
Direct download: WomenInComedy.mp3
Category:Television -- posted at: 2:48 PM

Jemima Hunt talks about her career as a novelist and her current work-in-progress - recorded at the second Writers' Guild Off The Shelf At Black's event.

Direct download: JemimaHunt.mp3
Category:Books -- posted at: 9:40 AM