DAVID 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. Most recently he wrote the adaptation of the epic  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 latest stage play Waves in the Chatroom  premiered in Wales in 2005. David lectures at Swansea University and at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

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, introducing talented writers to the networks, and the BBC to writers.  Jessica became a radio producer, joining the team of Westway, the World Service's twice weekly soap, 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 produces radio plays for Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio Five Live, (winning the Prix Italia for Best Original Radio Drama 2007) and worked with David Britton on two series of his adaptation of Old Peter's Russian Tales, for the Woman's Hour.

The course will feature a session with ALISON HINDELL, Head of Radio Drama at the BBC in London. There may be an opportunity for work to be read by professional actors at the end of the week.