Category Archives: radio

Writing for the Ear and the Rise of Audiobooks

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Jules Horne

As a writer with a background in radio, I’m really excited by the rise of audiobooks. The market is growing in double digits each year, and publishers are commissioning audio original fiction. More and more people are listening to books, … Continue reading →

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Hannah Vincent’s play wins BBC Audio Award

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Clare Spencer

Hannah Vincent’s radio play Come to Grief has won an award for Best Drama in the Adaptation category in the 2015 BBC Audio Awards, announced on 1st February. The judging panel said that the script, adapted from Hannah’s own stage play, … Continue reading →

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Hannah Vincent’s debut novel is published

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Clare Spencer

I am pleased to announce that my debut novel Alarm Girl is published in August 2014.  The novel is set in South Africa and is partly narrated by eleven-year old Indy, who is visiting her father there for the first … Continue reading →

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Ida and Louise – a radio commission for Jane Purcell

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Clare Spencer

I’ve just been commissioned to write a five part Woman’s Hour Drama based on the lives of Ida and Louise Cook.   Both were avid opera lovers and during their travels to Europe in the 1930s became aware of the persecution … Continue reading →

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All-Action Radio Road Movie

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jules Horne

The story of Kirkpatrick Macmillan, the inventor of the pedal cycle, is well known in Dumfriesshire, but he doesn’t seem to get due credit elsewhere. Time, I thought, to put the record straight, and give him his own radio play.  … Continue reading →

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Jane Purcell: BBC Radio 4 play commission

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Clare Spencer

The way that BBC Radio 4 works is that you send in an idea, jumping through about 356 hoops while you do so.  Then you wait and wait and at some point you might hear that your idea has gotten … Continue reading →

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