BBC Radio 4 Plays and Factual | Roger Stennett

BBC Radio 4 - Drama and Factual

Over the years I have enjoyed working for BBC Radio

Theses are the commissions and radio programmes that stand out

Ghost Writer

A 30 minute comic play about a dreadful writer and his Computer with a mind of its own.

Hack writer, Hugh Sinclair, is unaware that he is plagiarising Brief Encounter. Producer : Andy Jordan

Princess Caraboo

60 minute historical play based in a true story of 1817 and set in my village of Almondsbury

An exoric young woman arrives one day speaking an unintelligible language

Who is this mystery 'Princess' ? Over 3 months the truth finally emerges. Producer Sara Davis

Stardust

90 minute play set in England in 1944

Parallel and interlinked storylines

American Band Leader Glenn Miller and the crew of a B17 Flying Fortress Bomber . Producer Adrian Bean

The High Frontier

90 mite play set in space on the orbiting Russian Space Station MIR

A Cosmonaut who is part of the crew who has been left in space a year longer than planned

The Collapse of the USSR was responsible. Now the American Space Shuttle is helping with a 'lift'. Producer Adrian Bean

Twice Nightly

60 Minute 'Archive Hour' about 1950 's Variety Theatre

Presented by my father, Comedian Stan Stennett, who spent 70 years in Showbiz

Extensive use of sound Archive material as though we were 'backstage' in 1959. Producer Sara Davies

Writers' Workhops

A series of writers interviewed by Roger Stennett with a group of School Pupils in Studio

Writers included Roger McGough, Elaine Morgan and Lesley Thomas.

BBC Radio Wales

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I have digital copies of all of these plays and factual work which I would be happy to send to anyone interested