Radio Play Script wanted

[fut4_pourgh]

Helo. My name is Dave and im a 3rd year music tech student at leeds met uni, UK. for my 3rd year final project i am looking to produce and direct a radio play, however im no writer. I am after a script or good story to produce. prefurably somthing full length (hour to 3 hours) but i am also interested in doing short plays too.

If anyone is interested plese send an email to fut4.pourgh.industry@gmail.com

Thanks alot

[alleycat]

Does it have to be an original radio play? There's a lot of old radio plays out there. And Stephen King tried to revive the format (and failed).

[fut4_pourgh]

can be an adaptation of a book as long as im told the book and you or I can get the rights to do it. at the moment i can probly get rights sorted on the "educational perposes" claus, but i would prefur an original script. thanks

[werty37]

Hi.
I am Sujith. I am doing my post-graduate studies in media sciences. I am no good at production but i am surely interested in working with you. My email id is werty37@gmail.com

Thanks
Sujith

[werty37]

Hi
I forgot to mention. I have some experience in radio play production. I work in a Radio station on contract basis.

Sujith

[Debboggy]

I have some friends working on a radio play, so I sent them your info. :)

[endless rewrite]

I have had two radio plays produced by the BBC (radio 4) and currently have two proposals going forward in the next commissioning round (series & and a one off drama). I'm not looking to write something new for your project but would be happy to let you have production copies of mine on CD or script if it would help for timing, structure guidelines etc.

I don't know of any radio production that would be three hours for a drama unless it was a series, the usual for the afternoon play slot is 45 minutes and the weekend slot is an hour.

I thought the links below might be of use:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/commissioning.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/

http://www.dirkmaggs.dswilliams.co.uk/Writing%20Drama%20For%20BBC%20Radio.htm

As writers we are lucky that in Britain there is still a lot of drama produced for radio and it is a good option for scriptwriters looking for a break. The pay isn't bad and you get royalties and repeat fees as well as being paid to attend production. For some reason actors love doing them and you can get big names involved even as a new writer. I believe that the average audience figures for an afternoon play are about 500 000 for a domestic audience on first transmission and the plays are then put out on the internet, digital radio as well as being sold on to an international market.

Good luck, let us know how it goes.

[fut4_pourgh]

Ooh that would be lovley. At the moment im very interested in getting anything I can. from a writers point of veiw can u tell me what kind of fees and roialty percentages and genral burocracy info. im after being as completely througher as posible with my project.