Wireless Theatre Ltd Audio Drama

October 2019: environmental protests are erupting all across London. Extinction Rebellion protesters have blocked roads, glued themselves to aeroplanes and banks, and taken over Trafalgar Square. But this isn’t a story about XR.

Scattered by movement through and around the protests, five objects go unseen on the city streets, and each has a story to tell. These unexpected narrators share very different perspectives, looking from the ground up.

Looking from the angle of disposable things; gum, glue, chalk; ‘Ground Up’ shows how ‘throwaway’ objects are often grounded in timescales far beyond humankind. ‘Ground Up’ opens up large questions of permanence and purpose, by sharing the stories of small and everyday things.

Fiona Glen is an emerging writer and artist from Edinburgh, based in London. Her writing has been published in various periodicals and anthologies, and she has read at the London Science Museum and galleries across London. Her audio and multi-media projects have recently been commissioned by BBC x ICA New Creatives and Robert Young Antiques.

Written & Directed by Fiona Glen

Produced by Nikta Mohammadi

‘Gum’ – Esme Boggis

‘Teabag’ – Olivia Brady

‘Glue’ – Fiona Glen

‘Moss’ – Greg Esplin

‘Chalk’ – Ellora Torchia

Sound Design & Composition by Babak Mirsalari

Foley Recording by Kaveh Soori 

Script Consultancy by Molly Morphew & James Ireland

Ground Up was originally commissioned by BBC New Creatives programme in partnership with the ICA. Many thanks to both organisations, and Arts Council England for funding the production.

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Cake, an audio drama starring Maggie Turner. 73-year-old retired Betty was absolutely overjoyed when she recently became employed as a taste-tester at The Marigold Meadow Organic and Gluten Free Bakery, after answering an advertisement in the Hillingdon Recorder. However, a couple of weeks ago she was given some news that will change everything… 

Written, Directed & Produced by Simon James Collier, Evcol Entertainment
Music & Soundscape Design: Zachary Elliott-Hatton
Co-Producer: Adam Dechanel
Graphic Design: Clockwork Digital Studios
Engineer: Callum Mirames
Recorded at Umbrella Sound, London

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“A beautifully written and exquisitely performed piece of theatre”

1101 Wellington Way. New audio drama from Vivian Lermond. A nosey neighbour and a watermain burst brings an unpleasant revelation for the new tenant at Wellington Way in this new play by Vivian Lermond.

Performed by Glen Dickson, Karen Fraser and Titch McClean

Vivian is an award-winning playwright who has penned more than 100 plays and monologues that have entertained audiences in the US, Mexico, England, Scotland, Canada and Australia. Her full length drama/comedy, Back to Bethlehem (PA), premiered Off Broadway in 2006 at the Manhattan Theatre Club. In addition to her stage plays, Vivian has also written two full length
screenplays that were awarded first place in two highly competitive screenwriting contests.
She has taught playwriting at a local college and has facilitated playwriting workshops at writing conferences. Vivian has lent her talents to Gallagher Literary, an LA talent management company,
where she evaluated pitches and screenplay submissions. She also has freelanced for afilmwriter.com, where she was a script analysis specialist for stage plays.

Vivian has been a proud member of The Dramatists Guild since 1998.

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Three audio dramas from Benjamin Peel; in turns funny, light hearted, dark and gently satirical.

The Packsaddle Librarian

In depression era America, a scheme was set up to deliver books on horseback to isolated remote families of the Appalachia region. A young woman recounts her very first house call to her horse Betsy Girl.

The Interrogator

A seasoned inquisitor tries every trick he knows to extract a confession and ‘turn’ his prisoner. A psychological battle of wits ensues.

Retired Upstage

Retired actors Ian and Pat wait for the evening meal in their residential home.

The Packsaddle Librarian

Written by Benjamin Peel
Performed by Karen Fraser
Produced by Glen Dickson

The Interrogator

Written & Produced by Benjamin Peel
The Interrogator – Edward Peel
The Prisoner – Stacey J Gough
Recorded at County Linx Studios by Steve Kent

Retired Upstage

Written and Produced by Benjamin Peel
Ian – Edward Peel
Pat – Richard Simpson

All music and SFX sourced from free to use sites.

Benjamin Peel’s play Not a Game for Girls, published by Oberon Books in 2018, has been performed many times.

His play The Interrogator was performed as part of the New Short Play Festival at the John Cullum Theatre at the American Theatre of Actors, New York in 2019. The Long Player featured in Ragged Foil’s second podcast season with The Fastest Ever Singer appearing in the same company’s lock down Isolation Sessions.

Four audio dramas were commissioned by the online SOfa Fest 2020, produced by Breakwater Theatre Company. Several of Benjamin’s short audio plays have been broadcast as part of Writer’s Block Radio Hour by Super Sound Radio Scotland and the BBC Radio Lincolnshire Upload show. 

Benjamin wrote the screenplays for the short films The Runner and Silence in the Library both of which were selected for the Fear in the Fens Festivals of 2018 and 2020 respectively.

His play Singin’ for Engerland was performed live via Zoom in May 2020 during lock down and presented by Up ‘Ere Productions.

In February 2021 a series of Benjamin’s audio dramas featured in the Hastings Virtual Fringe Festival, under the umbrella title The March of the Women.

Benjamin’s audio dramas can be heard at https://soundcloud.com/benjaminpeel

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