Playwriting

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"

Play by Stewart Parker set in Belfast with four characters and a ghost

Julian Garner discusses his play The Flight into Egypt

Writing for radio "It's as free as the human imagination" says South African Athol Fugard

Christopher Cook interviews an unspecified speaker about writing

Irish playwright, Conor McPherson on his play set in an out of season seaside town

A light comedy or a serious drama?

Jose Triana's Medea in the Mirror is set in pre-revolutionary Cuba

With themes of nationality, passion, relationships - and a grandma with a mysterious past

Commissioned by the Clean Break Theatre Company and written by Winsome Pinnock

The themes of sex and class make Strindberg's play appealing to British audiences

Sue Lawley's castaway is novelist and playwright Hanif Kureishi

Joyce Carol Oates describes writing this radio drama

A discussion of Sue Glover's play Bondagers

Travelling to Europe to find the next play that spells success for a UK audience

The Ugandan author Charles Mulekwa talks about his play Nothing Against You

Working with Isabel Allende to make a play out of her novel, House of Spirits