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The Verb Dramas

The 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 programme, The Verb has offered the opportunity for writers from our development groups to gain short audio drama commissions.

I’d encourage everyone to think about writing for radio. Really, it’s an amazing medium, prosaic and poetic all at the same time; you can set anything anywhere – the possibilities are endless. There’s no medium quite like it.
— Jesse Schwenk, writer of 'A Quark in my Cosmos' for The Verb Dramas 2019

The 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 programme The Verb is a weekly "Cabaret of the Word", featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance, presented by Ian McMillan. The programme has regularly collaborated with us at the 91Èȱ¬ Writersroom, offering the opportunity for writers from our development groups to gain a short audio drama commission and the chance to appear as a guest in The Verb studio.

Having been selected, the writers undergo a thorough development process with a 91Èȱ¬ Audio Drama North Producer.  Find out more about the previous writers who were commissioned and listen to their audio dramas.

  • 2024

    Short audio dramas from Amy Arnold, Alan Flanagan, Matthew Smith and Karen Featherstone.
  • 2022

    Short audio dramas from Georgia Affonso, Tim Barrow and Alex Riddle recorded in 2022.
  • 2021

    Short audio dramas from Emilie Robson, Miles Sloman and Paolo Chianta.
  • 2020

    Short audio dramas from Jacob Welby, Alissa Anne Jeun Yi, Lucy Burke and Lettie Precious.
  • 2019

    Short audio dramas from Matthew Ingram, Allison Davies, Willow Mirza and Jesse Schwenk.

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