WIRELESS THEATRE COMPANY
THE ON-AIR BLOG
We have decided to start blogging, because we work with so many great people, we thought it’d be really nice to have some chatter about theatre, radio, drama and anything else that interests our team.
The views and opinions here might not always be the direct opinions of WTC, but we love a good discussion and chat and hope you enjoy our blogging.
3,2,1 … Record (How we did a full-length multicast production during lockdown)
“…and this is the studio that we use for recording dramas…” Mariele was telling me. It was early March 2020 and I had made a trip to London to get a guided tour of where I’d be working that summer: In a studio that was built for purpose – recording voices! And then lockdown hit…
Red Moon: Alternative Realities
by Robert Valentine “с этим шагом мы все входим будущее человечества.” (“With this step we enter the future of mankind.”) Yuri Gagarin, 20th December 1968 These days it often feels like we’re living in a far-fetched and darkly satirical parallel timeline. As...
How To Format An Audio Drama Script
Of all the many questions I have been asked about producing audio drama over the years, one of the most frequent is; “How do you format an audio drama script?”. When I first started creating audio drama, I presumed that the formatting for an audio script...
My First Page, By Ollie Cookson
Ever since I was a boy I’ve grown up around scripts. Being the son of a incredibly talented and successful BBC radio producer/director, our house was littered with written works by a number of different wonderful writers and on occasion an actor or 6. So much so...
How I Came To Work For Wireless Theatre by Cherry Cookson
People often ask me how I became involved with the wonderful Wireless Theatre Company so I thought it might be interesting to jot down how it happened! The Beginning I had a long career in the BBC as a producer/director in the Radio Drama Department but things changed...
The Edinburgh Festival by Nina Millns
“I am wearing a tartan shirt and a tartan scarf. Double tartan. This can only mean one thing: Edinburgh baby!” I posted this on my Facebook page. The Journey Two and a half years ago a troupe of merry players made our way up to the Edinburgh Festival to...
In Loving Memory Of A Truly Kind-Hearted Soul
By Susan Casanove The recent sudden passing of a dear friend from a cardiac arrest following pneumonia at the age of just 39 has shocked and deeply saddened everyone who knew her judging by the enormous outpouring of grief on social media. The last time we spoke, not...
Alison Steadman stars in LADIES, Live Radio Comedy
On a cold Christmassy morning in December, the Wireless Theatre Live team descended on The Lion & Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town to set up for our one off live recording of audio comedy LADIES. An entirely new script written by the talented Laura Harvey who had...