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Jeremy Mortimer @Jeremort

Making a noise about sound drama. Likes walking, cycling, theatre, Shakespeare. Don't like airports, ice cream, flashing lights.

Joined May 2008
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The Stage
@TheStage
15 Jan 2025
Plans to cut audio drama from @BBCRadio3 have been labelled a “devastating loss for writers and actors alike”, with critics calling it the end of the “National Theatre of the airwaves” 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/cuts-to-…

Cuts to Radio 3 drama will end ‘National Theatre of the airwaves’ – unions

The most recent commissioning brief for Radio 3 has removed all ‘radio drama slots’, according to Equity, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors

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Hello - and goodbye. I’m over here if anyone wants to chat.
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Emma Harding@EmmaHarding01
29 Sep 2024
Hard Times by #Dickens & @Belstoney 3pm Sun 29 Sept @BBCRadio4 - @davemorrissey64 @Rachel__Harper @IkeBnntt @shaundooley @thatjanravens @janey_orchard @Will2Close @Arthur_Hughes1 @ClaireCage1 @peerobinson Julie Barclay, Richard Elfyn & Aaron Anthony bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023ft…
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Emma Harding@EmmaHarding01
29 Sep 2024
The first in a #Dickensian season of three dramatisations, followed by #LittleDorrit with @Jason__Watkins Samuel Barnett @kittyarch & @Ptjbrad and #OurMutualFriend with @mat_fraser & @Lucyspeed #CharlesDickens Interview by Anna Jones @RadioTimes Illustration @matthew_brazier
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I just backed 9 Holidays I wish I had Never Been On on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/rat…

9 Holidays I wish I had Never Been On

This is my memoir. It is about what I did to survive in the world from 1977-1988. It is funny and I'm turning it into an audiobook.

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BBC Radio 3
@BBCRadio3
30 Jan 2024
Seventy years after Dylan Thomas’s radio play Under Milk Wood was first broadcast, five Welsh writers create dramatic portraits of Wales in 2024. Actor Ruth Jones narrates the stories @BBCSounds 🎧 tinyurl.com/yrfmkk64
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bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001vm… So much more than a tribute to Dylan Thomas - this is a proper treat for the ears - beautifully directed by @EmmaHarding01 and Fay Lomas with sound design by Catherine Robinson and Jonathan Thomas @bbcradio3 @bbcwales #audiofiction
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The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved | Editorial theguardian.com/commentisfre…

The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved | Editorial

Editorial: Their status has fallen since the great days of Under Milk Wood or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but we still need audio dramas

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It’s that time of year again #marmalade #sevilles
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bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001v1… Now available on BBC Sounds - Tim Spall plays Francis Bacon in James Birch's memoir of 1980s London and Moscow, dramatised by Stephen Wakelam.

Spotlight - Bacon in Moscow - BBC Sounds

Francis Bacon’s ground-breaking 1988 exhibition in the USSR. With Timothy Spall

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Philippa_Perry@Philippa_Perry
7 Jan 2024
Our friend James Birch’s book Bacon in Moscow is being dramatised on radio 3 at 7.30 this evening. Strong recommend. bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/progin…

Drama On 3

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BBC Radio Drama@BBCRadioDrama
21 Dec 2023
Congratulations to all shortlisted for the 2024 BBC Audio Drama Awards! These awards celebrate the creativity of actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, sound designers & all who work in this vibrant art form. Winners announced Sun 24 March 2024 bbc.co.uk/programmes/article…

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Audio Drama Awards - The 2024 Shortlist

Announcing the shortlisted people and programmes for the 2024 BBC Audio Drama Awards.

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Roger Tilling@rogertilling
25 Sep 2023
This is a wonderful, beautiful Thai surname. But just bear with me while I go off and have a quick cry… #UniversityChallenge
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Sam Jackson@classicjacko
11 Oct 2023
Lots happening across the BBC to celebrate 400 years since the first Shakespeare folio. On @BBCRadio3 we'll have an entire day of music inspired by the Bard *and* some remarkable new dramas inspired by Hamlet: bbc.com/mediacentre/2023/sha…

BBC celebrates 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’ with ambitious...

The BBC is celebrating this extraordinary anniversary with an ambitious season of content across TV, Radio, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds

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Emily Mortimer, A Voyage Round My Father: ‘I wish I’d written about my dad like he did about his’ telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what…

Emily Mortimer: ‘I wish I’d written about my dad like he did about his’

The actress on her memories of A Voyage Round My Father, her father John's play, which returns to the theatre this week

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Paul Chahidi@PaulChahidi
27 Sep 2023
Without doubt, one of the most terrifying, thrilling, life-affirming, JOYOUS things I've ever been involved with. Unforgettable. There's nowhere like @The_Globe
Shakespeare’s Globe@The_Globe
27 Sep 2023
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it... ❤️ Not had enough of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only? Here are some more pics to whet your appetite 😉 📸 @brennerphotos
The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - two cast members facing each other and talking with their hands up.

ALT The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - two cast members facing each other and talking with their hands up.

The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - one dressed as a fool gesturing, with a musician behind.

ALT The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - one dressed as a fool gesturing, with a musician behind.

The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - one cast member leaning on a pillar looking out into the audience.

ALT The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - one cast member leaning on a pillar looking out into the audience.

The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - one cast member reading a letter and looking out into the audience pensively, with a green bush behind them.

ALT The cast of Twelfth Night: For One Night Only onstage in the Globe Theatre (2023) - one cast member reading a letter and looking out into the audience pensively, with a green bush behind them.

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Dr Andrea Smith@AudioAndrea
25 Sep 2023
The @RadioTimes celebrates its centenary this week. Radio productions of #Shakespeare's plays have frequently featured on the cover, so here's a short thread of my favourites... starting with some of the earliest from the 1920s & 30s (1/4) #RadioTimes100 #RT100 #RadioDrama
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Reduced Listening@reducedlisten
21 Sep 2023
To mark the centenary of radio drama at the BBC, Radio Waves brings together three emerging writers who explore how storytelling is integral to the human experience 🧬 Join Captain Avery as she voyages through deep space
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Reduced Listening@reducedlisten
21 Sep 2023
Did you know radio drama is 100 years old? We continue our run of radio plays to mark the occasion with KALEIDOSCOPE 3 featuring David Haig as BBC radio pioneer Lance Sieveking 📻 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qsx…
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Radio Waves by three writers new to radio - this afternoon at 2.15.
BBC Radio 4
@BBCRadio4
20 Sep 2023
We’re celebrating 100 years of BBC audio drama with a raft of special programmes. 🔈 20 September: You Must Listen 🔈 21 September: Radio Waves 🔈 23 September: Kaleidoscope 3 🔈 24 September: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller Plus much more to come!
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