BBC Radio Drama
All unsolicited scripts to the BBC are processed through the writersroom.
In 1999 writernet produced a short article exploring some of the recent history of BBC New Writing, and interviewing Lucy Hannah, then working as part of that team. This is not a current article but can be downloaded for interest: Click here to download Background to Radio Drama at the BBC
Up to date interviews with writers and members of the BBC team, plus full details of submission and information on, the BBC's policies, are available on the BBC writersroom website: www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom
You are strongly advised to visit the writersroom website before submitting anything to the BBC.
Scripts should be sent to:
The Development Manager
BBC writersroom
1 Mortimer Street
London
W1T 3JA
Please contact the writersroom for guidelines on submitted unsolicited scripts before you send them!
Apart from the BBC there are other smaller drama producing organisations working within the commercial sector.
Independent Radio Drama Productions Ltd started in 1987 and has since become one of the world's leading independent producers of radio drama, having pioneered and premiered award-winning productions on LBC for over ten years. IRDP is a non profit making company whose ambition is to promote the value of radio drama and to expand opportunities for writers new to radio. They run festivals and competitions which have resulted in the production and broadcast of many plays by new writers who would not otherwise have had the chance to hear their work aired on the radio. In 1996, IRDP received a nomination at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards for 'Developing and Fostering New Writing' in recognition of this work.
The National Public Radio network regularly transmits IRDP's work throughout the United States. IRDP has produced Europe's only regularly scheduled drama programme on commercial radio. In September 1987, LBC began transmitting IRDP productions to listeners in London and the Home Counties in five minute episodes just before the 2pm news. Drama then moved to its own hour-long programme on Sundays between 6 and 7pm. Now drama is presented in hour-long special programmes on Bank Holidays.
IRDP has a theatre subsidiary which has developed a number of innovative stage projects and experimented with the symbiosis between theatre and radio. Innovative features in their produced work have included surround sound and computer digital projection. IRDP also has a US sister company incorporated in New York - the American Radio Drama Company.
For more information visit the IRDP website at http://www.irdp.co.uk
Ladbroke Production Company Another independent producer who produce radio drama for the BBC. They are interested in new material and will accept scipts. For further information and to send material contact Neil Gardner, Ladbroke Radio, Essel House, 29 Foley Street, London W1W 7JW, tel. 020 7323 2770.
Radio Academy Holds a list of all the independent radio producers but this is not categorised to make easy cross reference to drama producers. For further information contact the Radio Academy on tel, 020 7255 2010.
19 Entertainment Limited, 33 Randome's Dock, 35 Parkgate Road, London SW11 4NP
T: 020 7801 1906. F: 020 7801 1920. Contact: Mal Young
About Face Media Productions LTD, Townsend Enterprise Park, Belfast BT13 2ES
T: 02890 894555 F: 02890 894502
Above The Title Productions, Level 2, 10/11 St George's Mews, London NW1 8XE
T: 020 7916 1984. F: 020 7722 5706. Contact: Helen Chatwell.
Absolutely Productions LTD, Unit 19, 77 Beak Street, London W1F 9DB
T: 020 7644 5575 Contact: Gordon Kennedy
Aficionado Films LTD, The Attic, 84 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow G41 5RA
T: 0141 423 3106 M: 07711 356 577 Contact: Alan de Pellette
Allegra Productions, New Road, Framlingham, Suffolk IP13 9AT
T: 01728 622062 F: 01728 622063 Contact: Fiona McAlpine
All Out Productions, 50 Copperas Street, Manchester M4 1HS
T: 0161 834 9955 F: 0161 834 6978 Contact: David Cook
Andrew Green, 13 Pentley Park, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire AL8 7RT
T: 01707 323771 F: 01707 323771 Contatc: Andrew Green
Angel Eye Scotland LTD, 9 Rudolf Place Miles Street, London, London SW8 1RP
T: 0845 230 0062 F: 0845 230 9562 Contact: Richard Osborne
Apparatus, 29 Churchfields, Broxbourne, Herts EN10 7JS
T: 01992 465 465 F: 0207 439 4933 Contact: Mik Wilkojc
Associated Rediffusion Television Productions, Skellerah Farm, Corney, Millom, Cumbria LA19 5TW
T: 01229 718324 F: 01229 718808 Contact: Graham Pass
Athena Media LTD, The Digital Depot, The Digital Hub, Thomas St, Dublin 8, Ireland
T: 0035314885850 Contact: Helen Shaw
Avalon TV LTD, 4A Exmoor Street, London W10 6BD
T: 0207 598 8000 F: 0207 598 7281 Contact: Sally Debonnaire
Baby Cow Productions LTD, 77 Oxford Street, London W1D 2ES
T: 0207 3991267 F: 0207 399 1262 Contact: Henry Normal
Big Heart Ltd, Flat 4, 6 Pear Tree Court, London EC1R 0DW
T: 020 7608 0352 F: 020 7250 1138 Contact: Colin Izod
BBC Audiobooks LTD, St. James House , The Square, Lower Bristol Road, Bath BA2 3SB
T: 01225 878049 Contact: Louise Henny Armitage Fordham
Blakeway Productions LTD, 32 Woodstock Grove, London W12 8LE
T: 0208 7432040 F: 0208 7432141 Contact: Denys Blakeway
Bona Broadcasting LTD, 3rd Floor, 21 Albert Square, Dundee DD1 1DJ
T: 01382 225403 F: 01382 225408 Contact: Turan Ali
Boomerang, 218 Penarth Road, Cardiff CF11 8NN
T: 029 20550555 F: 029 20550551 Contact: Victoria Dando
Brook Lapping Productions LTD, 6 Anglers Lane, London NW5 3DG
T: 0207 4283100 F: 0207 2740626 Contact: Lesley Calmels
Brown Eyed Boy LTD, 4th Floor, 16 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JL
T: 020 7291 8020 F: 020 7637 2061 Contact: Tom Hopgood
Cactus Media Group LTD, Hammer House, 117 Wardour Street, London W1F 0UN
T: 0207 4341441 F: 0207 4341511 Contact: Ross Cameron
Campaign Productions, 35 Homer Street, London W1H 4NQ
T: 0207 2589688 F: 0207 258 9689 Contact: Mike Stewart
Campbell Davison Media, 110 Gloucester Avenue, Primrose Hill, London NW1 8HX
T: 0207 209 3740 F: 0207 209 3743 Contact: Clare Davison
Catherine Bailey LTD, 110 Gloucester Avenue, Primrose Hill, London NW1 8JA
T: 0207 483 3330 F: 0207 483 4541 Contact: Catherine Bailey
Celador Productions, 39 Long Acre, London WC2E 9JT
T: 0207 240 8101 F: 0207 845 6975 Contact: Liz Anstee
Centric Productions,19 The Avenue, Brondesbury Park, London NW6 7NR
T: 020 8838 1929 M: 07734 458925 Contact: Esther Armah
Chromeradio, 110 St. Thomas’s Road, Highbury , London N4 2QW
T: 0207 704 2950 Contact: Catriona Anne-Marie Oliphant Cole
City Broadcasting LTD, Smithy House Studio, Mill Lane, Little Warford,, Alderley Edge, Cheshire SK9 7TY
T: 01565 889600 Contact: Philip Reevell
The Comedy Unit LTD, Glasgow TV and Film Studio, Craigmont Street, Glasgow G20 9BT
T: 0141 3056666 F: 0141 3056600 Contact: April Chamberlain
The Corporation for Independent Media, 18A Mecklenburgh Square. London WC1N 2AD
T: 020 7209 2346 www.judithkampfner.com Contact : Judith Kampfner
Creation, 5 th Floor, 30 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LA
T: 020 7054 8983 F: 0207 054 8999 Contact: Howard Shannon
Crosshands LTD, Coreley, Shropshire, SY8 3AR
T: 01584 890893 F: 01584 890810 Contact: Richard Uridge
CSA Word, 6a Archway Mews, 241a Putney Bridge Road, London SW15 2PE
T: 020 8871 0220 F: 020 8877 0712 Contact: Clive Stanhope
CTVC, 9 Copper Row, Tower Bridge Plaza, London SE1 2LH
T: 020 7940 8480 F: 020 7940 8490 Contact: Nick Stuart
Curtains for Radio, 58 St Helen’s Gardens, London W10 6LH
T: 0208 964 0111 F: 0208 964 8654 Contact: Andrew McGibbon
Demus Productions LTD, 44 Devonshire Terrace Lane, Glasgow G12 9XT
T: 0141 342 4959 F: 0141 357 5519 Contact: Nick Low
Director’s Cut LTD, 6- 10 Great Portland Street, London W1W 8QL
T: 0207 637 7342 F: 0207 637 1801 Contact: Indra Gavin
DLT Entertainment, 10 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RA
T: 0207 631 1184 F: 0207 636 4571 Contact: John Reynolds
Down the Line Production LTD, 12 Abingdon Road, London W8 6AF
T: 020 7938 4002 F: 020 7938 4228 Contact: Alexandra Cann
Ear- 2- Ear Associates, Apt 3, 23 Frith St, London W1D 4RR
T: 020- 7287 2276 F: 01895- 442045 Contact: Graham Frost
EFS Motivation, 35a Broadhurst Gardens, London NW6 3QT
T: 020 7328 8305 F: 020 7624 4879 Contact: Walton Peter
Falling Tree Productions, 18 Cliffview Road, London SE13 7DD
T: 0208 3056936 F: 0208 3056936 Contact: Alan Hall
The Fiction Factory, 14 Greenwich Church Street, London SE10 9BJ
T: 020 8853 5100 F: 020 8293 3001 Contact: John Taylor
Field Productions,7 Whiteleaze, Westbury on Trym, Bristol BS10 5ED
T: 0117 950 5637 F: 0117 950 5637 Contact: Hilary Field
Films of Record, 2 Elgin Avenue, London W9 3QP
T: 0207 286 0333 Contact: Roger Jane Graef Bevan
First Writes, The Old Barn High Street, Little Eversden, Cambs CB3 7HE
T: 01953 888525 F: 01953 888974 Contact: Richard Blake
Furious Pictures and Sound, 165 Oxford Gardens, London W10 6NE
T: 0207 792 4477 Contact: Johnny Daukes
Flannel LTD, 21 Berwick Street, London W1F 0PZ
T: 0207 2879277 F: 0207 2877785 Contact: Kate Haldane
Gaffa Productions LTD, 7 Dewhurst Road, London W14 0ET
T: 02082921597 F: 0207 6104426 Contact: Jonathan Kydd
GC Media LTD, 29 George Street, Whithorn, Newton Stewart, Scotland, DG8 8NS
T: 01988 500517 Contact: Glenn Cooksley
Green Bay, The Talbot Studios, 1 Talbot Street, Pontcanna, Cardiff CF11 9BW
T: 02920642370 F: 02920786608 Contact: Nick Evans
Greenlight Radio, 2 Ballast Quay, Greenwich, London SE10 9PD
T: 0208 305 9232 Contact: Philippa Goodrich
Greenpoint Films,7 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8LZ
T: 0207 2406982 F: 0207 2407088 Contact: Ann Scott
Goldhawk Essential Limited, 20 Great Chapel Street, London W1F 8FW
T: 020 74397113 F: 0207 2873597 Contact: Lucinda Mason Brown/ Nick Russell-Pavier
Hat Trick Productions LTD, 10 Livonia Street, London W1F 8AF
T: 020 7434 2451 F: 020 7287 9791 Contact: Mario Stylianides
Heavy Entertainment, 222 Kensal Road, London W10 5BN
T: 0208 9609001 F: 03089609003 Contact: David Roper
Hewland International LTD, The Old Lab, 3 Mills Studios, Three Mills Lane, London E3 3DU
T: 020 8709 8731 F: 020 8709 8730 Contact: Jonny Ffinch
IGA Productions, 37 Warner Road, London N8 7HB
T: 0208 341 7190 F: 0208 342 8947 Contact: Ivor Gaber
Jane Marshall Productions, The Coach House, Westhill Road, Blackdown Leamington Spa CV32 6RA
T: 01926 831680 F: 01926 831680 Contact: Jane Marshall
Jarvis & Ayers, 82 Eaton Terrace, London SW1W 8UG
T: 0207 730 4137 F: 0207 730 5262 Contact: Martin Jarvis
Just Radio, 19- 20 Rheidol Mews, Rheidol Terrace, London N1 8NU
T: 020 7288 8415 F: TBC Contact: Susan Marling
Komedia Entertainment, 11- 14 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
T: 01273 573771 F: 01273 573770 Contact: Richard Daws
Ladbroke Radio, Essel House, 29 Foley Street, W1W 7JW
T: 0207 079 2082 F: 02070792080 Contact: Neil Gardner
Leapfrog Media, 72 Shipston Rd., Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire CV37 7LR
T: 01789 551983 Contact: Sera Lefroy-Owen
L’Ocean, 5 Darling Road, London SE4 1YQ
T: 0208 6920145 F: 0208692 0145 Contact: Roger Elsgood
Loftus Productions, 2A Aldine Street, London W12 8AN
T: 020 8740 4666 F: 020 8248 7147 Contact: Nigel Matt Acheson Thompson
Made in Manchester, 17 Rushford Avenue, Levenshulme, Manchester M19 2HG
T: 07989 580712 Contact: Andrew Graystone
Malcolm Billings & Associates, 200 North Gower Street, London NW1 2LY
T: 0207 388 8652 F: 0207 383 0890 Contact: Malcolm Billings
Monty Funk Productions LTD, 91 Nursery Road, Edgbaston, Great Malvern, Birmingham B15 3JU
T: 0121 4541229 M: 07958 420410 F: tbc Contact: David Corser
Neon Productions, Studio One, 19 Marine Crescent, Glasgow G51 1HD
T: 0141 4296366 F: 0141 4296377 Contact: Robert Noakes
Open Mike Productions LTD, Hammer House 3rd Floor, 113 – 117 Wardour Street, London W1F OUN
T: 020 7434 4004 F: 020 7434 4045 Contact: Andrew Beint
On Road Radio LTD, 5 Dorset Mansions, Lillie Road, London SW6 7PF
T: 0776162 6162 Contact: Nathalie McDermott
Pacificus Productions, 28 Malvern Rd, London E8 3LP
T: 07921 261569 F: 0207 603 6593 Contact: Clive Brill
Pennine Productions, Kilmagadwood Cottage, Scotlandwell, Kinross KY13 9HY
M: 07801445132 Contact: Mike Hally
Pier Productions, Lower Ground Floor, 1 Marlborough Place, Brighton BN1 1TU
T: 01273 691401 F: 01273 693658 Contact: Peter Hoare
Pilgrim Productions Canterbury LTD, The Old Saw Mill, Hastingleigh,, Ashford, Kent TN25 5HN
T: 01233 750055 Contact: Ted Harrison
Pozzitive Television LTD, 5th Floor, Paramount House, 162- 170 Wardour Street, London W1V 4AB
T: 0207 734 3258 F: 0207 437 3130 Contact: David Tyler
Promenade Productions, 6 Russell Grove, London SW9 6HS
T: 0207 582 9354 F: 0207 564 3026 Contact: Nicholas Newton
Quickfire Entertainment LTD, Ground Floor, 107 Brecknock Road, London N7 0DA
T: 020 7284 4284 F: 020 7284 4284 Contact: Aled Evans
Random Entertainment LTD, 4 St Ann’s Gardens, London NW5 4ER
T: 0207 4857678 F: 0207 4857678 Contact: Jon Naismith
Resource Base, Fairways House, Mount Pleasant Road, Southampton SO14 0QB
T: 023 8023 6806 F: 023 8023 6816 Contact: Karen Gilchrist
Roger Bolton Productions, 6- 9 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF
T: 0207 713 6868 F: 0207 713 6999 Contact: Roger Bolton
Ruth Evans Productions, 4 Offlands Cottages, Moulsford, Oxon OX10 9HP
T: 01491 651331 F: 01491 652004 Contact: Ruth Evans
St. Louis Productions LTD, 19 Pembroke Road, London N10 2HR
T: 0208 3652400 Contact: Connie St Louis
Smooth Operations, P O Box 286, Cambridge CB1 7XW
T: 01223 244544 F: 01223 244 384 Contact: Nick Barraclough
Somethin’ Else, Units 1- 3a, 1a Old Nichol Street, London E2 7HR
T: 0207 613 3211 F: 0207 739 9799 Contact: Jez Nelson
So Radio, 18 Hatfields, London SE1 8GN
T: 0207 960 2000 F: 0207 9602095 Contacts: Graham Stuart
Soundscape Productions, 23 Scarcroft Hill, York YO24 1DF
T: 01904 731300 F: 01904 731300 Contact: Andy Dave Cartwright Sheasby
Splendid Thing, 7 Copse Road, Bristol BS4 2HZ
T: 01179079695 F: 01179079695 Contact: Malcolm Love
Stunt Baby Productions LTD, 81 Charlotte Street, London W1T 4PP
T: 0207 4365556 F: 0207 4365557 Contact: Colin Dench
Sugar Productions, 22 Orchard Road, Kingston KT1 2QW
T: 0208 541 1538 Contact: John Sugar
Sweet Talk Productions LTD, 22 Montpelier Street, Brighton BN1 3DJ
T: 01273 772 913 F: 01273 722 824 Contact: Karen Rose
Talent TV, Red Lion House, 72- 75 Red Lion Street, London WC1R 4NA
T: 0207 4217800 F: 0207 421 7811 Contact: Alexandra Henderson
Talkback Productions, 20- 21 Newman St, London W1P 3HB
T: 020 7861 8086 F: 020 7861 8001 Contact: Celia Mountford
Taylor Made Broadcast Limited, Gate Farm, Kiddington, Woodstock Oxon OX20 1DB
T: 01608 677777 F: 01608 677569 Contact: Trevor Taylor
Testbed Productions Limited, 5 th Floor, 14 - 16 Great Portland Street, London W1N 5AB
T: 020 7436 0555 F: 020 7436 2800 Contact: Viv Black
Tinderbox Broadcast, Midland Bank Building, 46- 48 Cardiff Road, Llandaff, Cardiff CF5 2DT
T: 02920554822 F: 029 20554833 Contact: Terry Lewis
Tony Staveacre Productions, Channel View, Blagdon, North Somerset BS40 7TP
T: 01761 462161 F: 01761 462161 Contact: Tony Staveacre
Top Dog Productions LTD, 12 Shreres Dyche, Warwick CV34 6BX
T: 07966 134258 Contact: Richard Webb
Torpedo LTD, Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, Cardiff CF72 8BS
T: 01443 231 989 F: 01443 231 664 Contact: Ceri Wyn Richards
Triple Echo Productions, The Birches, Old Glen Road, Newtonmore, Invernessshire PH20 1EB
T: 01540 673170 F: 01540 673166 Contact: Richard Else
UKEMI Productions LTD, 18 High Street, Welwyn, Herts AL6 9EQ
T: 01438 717808 F: 01438 717809 Contact: Nicolas Soanes
Unique the Production Company, Unit 1B, 50 Lisson Street, London NW1 5DF
T: 0207 453 1632 F: 020 7 4023259 Contact: Laura Parfitt
Universal Sound Principles, 24 Newman Street, London W1T 1AW
T: 0207 9276600 F: 0207 9276601 Contact: Chris Skinner
The Watershed Partnership Limited, 119 Stockport Road, Marple, Stockport, Cheshire SK6 6AF
T: 0161 449 7686 F: 0161 427 7945 Contact: Chris Wallis
The Watershed Partnership Limited, 31, St Philip House, Lloyd Baker St, London WC1X 9BD
T: 020 7833 3060 F: 07005 938 477 Contact: Jill Waters
Whistledown Productions, 66 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 0AS
T: 0207 922 1120 F: 0207 261 0939 Contact: David Prest
Wise Buddah LTD, 74 Great Titchfield Street, London W1P 7AF
T: 0207 3071600 Contact: Mark Goodier
Zygon Radio, Burton Mill House, Burton Park Rd, Petworth,, Sussex GU28 0JR
T: 01798 869 452 F: 01798 869 429 Contact: Stephen White
Updated 28/06/06
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