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For Writers and Producers of Radio Drama
Submitting
Your Script
BBC
Northern Ireland Drama offers the freelance writer one of the largest
and most wide-ranging markets in the world. Our output covers original
radio plays; radio dramatisations of novels and stage plays; series,
serials and short plays.
The department, for a variety of reasons, most of them legal, has
recently decided not to consider unsolicited work
in the future - instead we will be asking writers to approach
us through an agent.
Scripts
should be submitted to:
BBC
Northern Ireland Radio Drama Department
Room 3.07
Blackstaff House
Great Victoria Street
Belfast
BT2 7BB
Unrepresented writers can submit work to BBC New Writing, their
website is: www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom.
How It Should Be Done:
Do you want to write drama or comedy for Radio 4? Find out how
right here. Follow
the guide for laying out a Radio Drama Script.
How
Long Do I Have To Wait?
Because
we give careful consideration to all submissions, a waiting period
of several weeks is often unavoidable. If your play is returned
to you we cannot engage in subsequent correspondence over the work.
Make
sure that all the pages are firmly fastened and numbered consecutively.
On
Rehearsal scripts number each speech, starting afresh at the top
of each page, but that is not necessary when first submitting.
Submitting
a script to BBC Radio Drama
All plays submitted to us will be considered for production with
the exception of the following:
- Unsolicited
scripts not submitted via an agent
- Single
plays that are submitted as a synopsis only.
- Features
- Proposals
for series and serials which simply list book titles as being
suitable for dramatisations.
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