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Radio 3 showcases new writing talent in The Wire
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91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 presents a new season of The Wire which showcases the best new
contemporary writing for radio.
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The series launches on 31 March 2007 and includes
works from film writer Matthew Broughton, Hollywood actor Toby Jones and
Tom Morris, the original producer of Jerry Springer The Opera and National
Theatre Associate Director.
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Broadcast monthly, The Wire demonstrates Radio
3's continued commitment to commissioning and developing young writing talent.
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The new season of The Wire starts with The Incomplete Recorded Works Of A Dead Body by
Ed Hime on 31 March. Set in London, the play explores the themes of decay,
aspiration, noise and loneliness.
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Babak, a reclusive Iranian sound artist,
played by Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, United 93) comes to London in
search of Simone, a cellist he met in Beirut. Obsessed with the noise of the
city, he barricades himself into his flat and descends further into his
troubled mind.
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This is Ed's first play. Ed is one of the Royal Court 50, a
mentoring scheme run by the Royal Court and 91Èȱ¬ writersroom for 50 of the
country's most promising new writers set up to mark the 50th Anniversary of
the English Stage Company.
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Later plays in the season include My Glass Body, written and directed by Anna
Furse, drawing on her own experiences of infertility; Eye Witness, a powerful
personal insight into the IRA hunger strikes in the Eighties; and Bully Boy, a
darkly comic look at modern parenting.
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Abigail Appleton, Head of Speech Programmes, Radio 3, says: "Bold new
writing is a very important part of the range of drama 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 offers
listeners.
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"We aim to give writers, new and experienced, an opportunity to
stretch themselves creatively and to offer listeners some of the most exciting
new writing for radio.
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"I hope listening to The Wire is an adventure."
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Notes to Editors
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The Wire Schedule 2007
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The Incomplete Recorded Works Of A Dead Body by Ed Hime
(broadcast 31 March)
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My Glass Body by Anna Furse (5 May)
My Glass Body, written and directed by Anna Furse, drawing on her own
experiences of infertility. Graeme Miller's evocative and rich soundscape
wraps around and elaborates the intimate, embodied world created by the voices
of Barbara Flynn and Jack Klaff. Anna Furse is an award-winning writer and
experimental theatre director, her play Augustine received a Time Out Award
for Writing and Direction and a Peter Brook Empty Space Award.
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The Third Trial by Hattie Naylor (2 June)
The Third Trial by Hattie Naylor explores the shared responsibility of the
consequences of war, justifications for persecution and grief. Having received
news of their ex-serviceman son's death, Stephanie and Steven rehearse their
role in his death. Hattie Naylor is an award winning writer for 91Èȱ¬ Radio. She
has also written for film, theatre, and opera.
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Eye Witness by Tom Kelly (7 July)
Eye Witness by Tom Kelly is a powerful personal testimony of Tom's experiences
of the IRA hunger strikes in the Maze prison in 1981, providing an original
and insightful window into one of the most contentious episodes of Anglo-Irish
history.
Tom Kelly came to radio drama in 2001 through the 91Èȱ¬'s SPARKS initiative to
bring in the best new talent from other media. Since then he has written
three plays for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 4 and two for Radio 3.
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Bully Boy by Toby Jones & Tom Morris (1 September)
Bully Boy, a collaboration between Hollywood star Toby Jones (Infamous) and
pioneering theatre-maker Tom Morris (Jerry Springer The Opera), is a bitter
sweet comedy about parenting in modern times. "Every time I drop him off at
school, I feel as if I'm tearing off a layer of skin. He won't look at me and
he's started sucking his thumb again."
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Wes Bell by Matthew Broughton (6 October)
Wes Bell is a darkly comic love story between two people for whom love has
been perverted and about the terrible resulting consequences. This is film writer
Matthew Broughton's first original play for radio, he also wrote
Surrealissimo! for 91Èȱ¬ Four.
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I Can See You by Sarah Lee (3 November)
Branded since birth by the colour of her skin, not black enough to be black,
not white enough to be white, Dawn hates herself. I Can See You is a personal
tale about self-loathing and a search for happiness. It is Sarah Lee's first
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