ABOve the title win New York RADIO AWARDs
Above the Title have won two Gold Awards at this year's New York Festival's radio awards in the drama and entertainment categories, for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Tertiary Phase and The National theatre of Brent's Complete & Utter History of the Mona Lisa. Hitchhikers also won the prestigious Grand Award. This comes soon after their recent success at this year's Sony Awards in which Mona Lisa won Gold in the comedy category and Hitchhikers was nominated for drama.
tHE KINKS STORY
On July 12th and 19th on Radio 2, Chrissie Hynde presented Till the End of the Day - The Story of the Kinks. Featuring new interviews with Ray and Dave Davies, as well as other band members and musicians including Pete Townshend, Paul Weller, Noel Gallagher and Suggs, this is the definitive story of one of Britain's greatest bands.
NEW DRAMA
Above the Title continue to produce quality, innovative drama, and in September this year Radio 4 are broadcasting two more beautiful JM Barrie plays directed and adapted by Julia McKenzie, and Kerry Shale’s adaptation of Budd Schulberg’s boxing classic The Harder They Fall, Frederic Raphael’s new radio dramatisation of his masterpiece The Glittering Prizes, and a new play by Mike Stott about a man who falls in love with a veal calf, Mirabelle & Me, will be broadcast on Radio 4 in November and December.
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hitchhikers wins grand award in new york
As well as winning a Gold Award at this year's New York Festivals Radio Wwards, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Tertiary Phase has also won the prestigious Grand Award, awarded to the 'best of the best Gold World Medal winners'.
Following the huge success of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary Phase, the final two books in Douglas Adams’ masterpiece have been dramatised for Radio 4: The Quandary & Quintessential Phases. The original cast were again reunited, perhaps for the last time, with several supporting stars thumbing a lift including June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks, Stephen Fry, Christian Slater and Jonathan Pryce...More
COMING UP...
On Radio 4 this summer listen out for a new play to mark the end of WWII - Jam Yesterday, by one of the country's greatest living playwrights, Peter Nichols. Later in the year more comedy in the story of Phil Silvers, aka Bilko, and you can hear more legal programmes as Angus Roxburgh investigates Russia's controversial legal reforms in Reforming the Bear, and we present the inside story of the new International Criminal Court.