Playwriting

Interview with Kenyan playwright, Ben Ateku about his play The Broadcasting Station

Zimbabwean playwright Rosemary Smith Kebe talks about her play Mrs Brown and her Roots

Uda Yousef Jo talks about winning the African Playwright Competition

Unknown speaker explains how he used the story or Genesis to rewrite a play.

Sue Lawley's castaway is playwright and screenwriter Jimmy McGovern

Louise Swan talks to Sharon Gless about the play Chapter Two by Neil Simon

Sue Lawley's castaway is playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton

Indhu Rubasingham discusses constructing a play in which women meet their younger selves

"Sport is theatre" Shelley Webb, author of Footballers' Wives, on using sport in drama

True story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby, Jordan, rather than have him taken away

Penny Ciniewicz says "We want to promote the work of writers in all their diversity.

Andrew Verster discusses his new play and the unusual way in which he works.

"I didn't want them to be at all cartoony or any of the violence in it to become cartoony"

Sue Lawley's castaway is playwright Neil Simon

Brian Wright on his play Generations and his reflections on war

The Prisoner of Papa Stour is discussed by Louise herself

Alan Strachan shares his view on Ayckbourn's work: shrewd and subversive

Sue Lawley's castaway is playwright Willy Russell

Sue Lawley's castaway is playwright Alan Bleasdale

Sue Lawley's castaway is playwright Derek Walcott

An interview with Biyi Bandele-Thomas, prize-winning student playwright

JW Lambert presents a programme exploring the life and work of George Bernard Shaw

Speaker has written a play describing his view of African political situation