D. J. Britton
is an award-winning writer and director for stage, screen and radio. He has moved to Wales from Australia, where, as National Executive Producer, he led the Radio Drama Department of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. His radio plays have featured extensively on BBC Radio 4 and 3, and have been produced internationally. Projects in 2006 have included the dramatisation of Arthur Ransome's Old Peter's Russian Tales as BBC Radio 4's Christmas daily serial, and  his acclaimed experimental audio play Darkness, about a man's journey into blindness. In 2005 he undertook the massive task of dramatising Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don for BBC Radio 4’s Classic Serial. His stage works in Australia include Cargo (Swan Gold Play of the Year award); and Plainsong (Equity Award, 2001). His  stage play Waves in the Chatroom premiered at the Sherman Theatre in Wales in 2005. David also teaches at Swansea University, where he is the drama specialist on the Creative Wrining MA and BA programmes.

Jessica Dromgoole
is a producer for BBC Radio Drama.  After ten years working as a theatre director, specialising in new writing, and as literary manager of Paines Plough, Jessica joined the BBC as the New Writing Coordinator for Drama, Entertainment and Children's Programmes.  After five years of introducing talented writers to the BBC, and the BBC to writers, Jessica joined the team of Westway, the World Service's twice weekly soap, as a producer for its final year.  Using her newly honed series skills, she travelled to Pakistan for the World Service Trust to launch an Urdu soap there, Piyar ka Passport, which highlighted the issues surrounding forced marriage.  She now makes programmes for Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio Five Live, and worked with David Britton on his adaptation of Old Peter's Russian Tales, the Christmas 2006 series for the Woman's Hour.