Playwriting

Review of JM Barrie, the Scottish dramatist, and his most famous work Peter Pan

Michael Frayn on his play about the meeting of physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg

Yasmina Reza talks about her play about the breakup of a friendship

Stage dramatist Marcy Kahan talks about her thriller Salzburg in London

Playwright and director Mehrdad Seyf talks about his play Death by Heroine

Ron Hutchinson on Mikhail Bulgakov's play

An International Radio Playwriting Competition winner talks about her work and characters

Jack is Rudyard Kipling's son, David Haig discusses Kipling's role in Jack's death

A discussion of the play Looking for Mr Big

The play Mosquitoes recalls the story of Ronald Ross who discovered malaria transmission

South African playwright Athol Fugard talks about his play People are Living There

Playwright Samuel Adamson gives some background on his play Grace Note

Tanika Gupta describes the actions of Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary Dinesh Gupta, as outlined in her book, Voices On The Wind.

The scriptwriter Alby James discusses a story about a young Muslim Somali girl

Ad de Bont talks about his play Mirad - A Boy from Bosnia about the refugees of war

The non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes of dramatist Caryl Churchill

Dennis Hawthorne talks about Irish playwright William Trevor

Discussion of Cameron Macintosh musical Martin Guerre

Interview on a play about the frailty of old age, the deviousness of old age, unfaithfulness, lies and deceit.

Launch of the International Radio Playwriting Competition

"Writing for the page, writing for the eye is much different from writing for the ear"

How Neil Simon first went to New York and began to write for comedian Sid Caesar

"Some of the ideas I was having could end up being far too earnest"