The event was held (thanks to the extraordinary Stephanie Campion of Moving Parts, who organised a zoom reading of the plays), the votes were cast, and the winner of this years Little Wonder Radio Play Competition is Denise Deegan with “The Last PTA Meeting.”
The Last PTA Meeting was a wonderful, warm, funny play with cracking dialogue and a lot to say about family and parenting. It was a delight to see the play grow and develop through the course of the competition, and it is a well deserved winner.
Warmest congratulations are also due to our other finalists, Amber Elen-Forbat, Mark Blayney, Paul Stone, and Declan Kennedy, who helped ensure an excellent evenings entertainment with imaginative, inventive and diverse plays that would have been worthy competition winners themselves. Thank you everyone.
Now that congratulations have been showered, the rest of this article is an interview with our winner Denise Deegan, so you can learn more about her, her writing, and how she celebrated winning the 2020 Little Wonder Radio Play Competition. Enjoy and read on!
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The Shortlist for the Breaking Boundaries Short Radio Play Competition is ready and as follows:
Buddha Hat by Clare Shaw
Flamingo by Thoko Masikini
Like Candy From a Baby by Michael Lin
Pride of Rotterdam by Tom Harvey
The Fall by Zoe Grainge
Warmest congratulations to everyone who made the shortlist. All five plays will be performed and recorded in November, at an as yet to be determined venue in Paris (we lost our usual venue, but two months to find a stage is an eternity in theatre time!)
It’s finally here! After months of writing, reading, revisions, commenting, re-revising, hoping and repeated checking of emails, the shortlisted plays of the Little Wonder Radio Plays Competition 2018 will be receive a public reading this Sunday. After the reading, the audience will vote on their favourite piece, and their votes will be combined with judges scoring to choose the winner- announced on New Years Eve. Full details of the reading are below – good luck to all or shortlisted writers!
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Little Wonder are delighted to announce that this Thursday we will share with you “Sedna”, a story from Fay Roberts’ “The Selkie: A Song of Seven Waters.” To whet your appetite, here is “To Begin”, a short introduction to the mysterious world of The Selkie. Listen, then click on more to find out about Fay and her work.
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Our Radio Play Competition is now live, as promoted by the BBC. Yes, you heard me right – the BBC! Click the picture for more details. And to see little old us on the BBC.
The competition closes on August 30th – so if you’ve got an English radio script for a full cast audio drama between 1600 and 2000 words requiring no more than four actors then you can ENTER HERE.
