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BE MY BABY
Ten years after its first production, this hit stage play becomes a powerful drama-documentary for BBC Radio Four. Set in a 1964 mother and baby home, the play is interwoven with moving interviews from adopted children who traced their birth mothers. Produced in Birmingham by Kate Chapman and Sara Conkey. Broadcast as an Afternoon Play, Thursday February 7th 2008.
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Katherine Dow-Blyton plays Kate in BBC Radio Four's Bollywood Jane. Photo: Keith Pattison.
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BOLLYWOOD JANE
This magical stage play is now a BBC Radio Four Woman's Hour serial. Sixteen year old Jane is uprooted by her feckless mother Kate and made to start a new life on Leicester's Belgrave Road. When she stumbles into a Bollywood cinema, Jane makes her own escape into a world of sequins and saris. Produced in Birmingham by Kate Chapman, it features Joanna Froggatt, Sasha Dhawan and Katherine Dow-Blyton. Broadcast from March 17th-21st (10.45am/ 7.45pm).
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Katharine Rogers (Glad) and Kate Rawson (Mae). The Wills's Girls, 2002. Photo: Zuleika Henry.
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THE WILLS'S GIRLS
Adaptation of the 1950's tobacco industry stage play for BBC Radio Four Woman's Hour. The five-part serial featured Katharine Rogers, Louise Howells, Kate Rawson, Giles Fagan and Devon Black. Produced in Bristol by Sara Davis. Broadcast in December 2004.
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AMATEUR GIRL
One-woman drama written for a BBC Radio Four Woman's Hour series on the Minimum Wage. Follows the career of Julie, a Nottingham nurse turned amateur porn star. Katharine Rogers plays Julie. Produced in Bristol by Sara Davis. Broadcast in December 2006.
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THE ROAD TO ABOLITION
Drama-documentary charting the slave trade abolition movement for BBC Radio Three. Produced in Bristol by Sara Davis. Broadcast March 2007.
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HAVE YOUR CAKE
Amanda Whittington writes episodes 3 and 4 of this new BBC Radio Four series. Broadcast February 8th/15th 2008.
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