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  BROKEN + BLUE A national search for new music drama BBC Radio 3 and BBC writersroom are looking for original, entertaining and diverse music dramas for radio. Radio 3's first writers' competition, Broken and Blue is an ambitious project for writers who would like to extend their body of work into this under-explored area. This is about rethinking the role of music and song in radio drama. Recent Radio 3 dramas The Loneliest Road by Gregory Whitehead [Sony Gold winner 2003] and The Don by Jeff Young are examples of plays that use music as an integral part of the narrative. The proposed dramas can be up to ninety minutes long. Please be as inventive as you like in the way you propose working with music. The script is key at this stage, and writers are invited to apply ...
To apply, please send a two page proposal for your drama, together with the opening ten-fifteen minutes fully scripted, your CV and a covering letter with your contact details to BROKEN AND BLUE, BBC WRITERSROOM , 1 MORTIMER ST , LONDON W1T 3JA . Deadline 1 December 2004 . Judges: opera and theatre director Phyllida Lloyd , actor and writer Lennie James , Head of Speech Programmes, Radio 3, Abigail Appleton and the BBC's Creative Director of New Writing, Kate Rowland. Radio 3 regularly broadcasts groundbreaking new work by the best writers, on The Wire and Drama on 3. The Wire Drama on 3 BBC writersroom finds, develops and champions writers of talent and diversity throughout the BBC, across all platforms. For more information, as well as insights and further opportunities, please visit the Writers Room. bbc.co.uk/writersroom . RULES the small print... Your proposal, script, CV and cover letter must be legibly typed. Your proposal should be no more than 2 sides of A4, your script no more than 20 pages long. Your submission must arrive by the deadline, 1 December 2004. We cannot accept submissions by fax or email. The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Shortlisted candidates may be asked to meet the judging panel for an informal interview. All rights in material submitted will continue to belong to you, and if the BBC wishes to use it (other than for purposes of judging the award), you will be offered a contract or commission in accordance with the BBC's standard practices. The winner(s) agree(s) by accepting the award not to take ideas developed through the scheme to any third party without having first given the BBC the opportunity to commission it. The winner(s) will be announced on 14 February 2005. For further information, please visit our website, bbc.co.uk/writersroom, e-mail new.writing@bbc.co.uk or call 020 7765 2703  |
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