May 29th, 2009
ATT’s latest comedy offering ‘Newfangle’ (BBC Radio 4), Starring Russell Tovey received a rave review from the Radio Times.
“I love this. I love everything about it - from Russell Tovey’s aping of the lowly hominid of the title who invents language to express his unrequited love and his protests about always being beaten up by the alpha male, to Adam Rosenthal and Viv Ambrose’s gloriously scrumptious and clever script.”
“Set in the primordial mud, a group of apes on the brink of evolving into humans grapple with those things that progress entails. And yet, their hierarchies and obsessions seem awfully familiar and modern. Probably coming to a TV series near you. Og me if it doesn’t!
Francis Lass - ‘Radio Times’ Magazine
30th May 2009
You can listen to the latest episodes live on Radio 4 on Monday at 11.30am or use the BBC iPlayer to listen again here
May 28th, 2009
Radio 1’s ‘The Surgery’ has commissioned ATT to produce a documentary feature tackling the issue of domestic violence in young relationships.
Lisa Meyer will produce.
May 18th, 2009
Series six of Clive Anderson’s Chat Room (for BBC Radio 2) has just finished.
We had a great selection of guests and received some lovely feedback. Miranda Sawyer wrote in The Observer, that the show made her “yelp with laughter”.
The series returns to Radio 2 in the autumn of this year.
May 18th, 2009
Our series on the legendary French chansonnier Charles Aznavour is in the final stages of production. Listen to the first episode, presented by Petula Clark on Friday 22nd May, 7pm on Radio 2.
May 18th, 2009
In the wake of the conflict between police and demonstrators at the G20 summit in London, Clive Anderson and his guests on this week’s edition of Unreliable Evidence for Radio 4, discuss the Law and Protest.
Lord Hoffmann, recently retired as a Law Lord, argues that there has always been a convention that acknowledges that protest will inevitably involve a certain amount of illegal behaviour - such as trespass, daubing slogans and chaining to railings. In response, the legal justice system treats such offences leniently.
But he is concerned that the police, in the interests of maintaining order, may be breaking that convention, overusing their powers, particularly when they take pre-emptive action to prevent demonstrations taking place. And he fears that this may sometimes happen simply to save the cost and trouble of policing a protest.
Tune in to BBC Radio 4 to hear more, Wednesday 20 May at 8pm.
May 12th, 2009
Above The Title’s Brian King and Simon Clegg attended the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Awards last night at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane.
ATT’s classic serial “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists” for Radio 4 was the sole indie-produced programme in the category.
Congrats to writer Chris Harrald and colleagues at BBC Radio Drama for winning the Gold for “Mr Larkin’s Awkward Day” in the drama category.
Highlights of the evening included Radio 3 taking the Station of the Year Awards, well done. And a delighted Vanessa Feltz winning Speech Radio Personality of the Year. Host Chris Evans stood aside, twice, as he and team won the Entertainment Award and Music Radio Personality of the Year Award.
Well done to all the winners. The UK radio business is in very good form.
(Picture: Radio 2.)
May 5th, 2009
Above The Title announces that its production of Robert Tressell’s iconic text THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS for Radio 4 has been nominated for a 2009 SONY AWARD for best drama. This was the only programme in the category from an indie production company. The Awards ceremony is being held at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, 11 May 2009. This continues Above The Title’s run with Sony and other award nominations. Adapted by Andy Lynch, the show had an amazing cast, with Johnny Vegas, Andrew Lincoln, Timothy Spall, Paul Whitehouse, and John Prescott MP. Attending the awards ceremony for Above The Title are Brian King and Simon Clegg. Watch this space.
May 5th, 2009
Above The Title chief exec Simon Clegg is delighted to announce that PETE ATKIN has joined the company as senior producer.
After a spell in the music business and then writing for radio, TV, and theatre, Pete joined BBC Radio Light Entertainment as a producer and worked on classic programmes such as My Word, My Music, Just a Minute and Week Ending, and then went on to make a broad range of programmes, including Simon Brett’s award-winning After Henry (starring Prunella Scales), Legal Decent Honest and Truthful, and the late great Peter Tinniswood’s Uncle Mort series, among many others. Pete has continued to produce an ever wider range of features and dramas, as well as readings and comedies.
Pete has been the producer of Martin Jarvis’s renowned Just William readings for twenty years now, but his biggest project to date has been all 306 episodes of Radio 4’s monumental history of Britain, This Sceptered Isle. In amongst all of this he still manages to pursue his revived musical career (revived mainly through the internet), still writing songs with Clive James, and occasionally touring the UK and Australia in their two-man show.
Previous work for Above the Title includes Pottermanship with Stephen Fry, The Woman who invented Sitcom, Anything You Can Do, Frederic Raphael’s The Glittering Prizes, Something in the Air and Jam Yesterday by playwright Peter Nichols.
Pete will oversee ATT’s drama output and development.
Picture: TIMESONLINE
May 5th, 2009
Above The Title chief exec, Simon Clegg, tells us that the latest series of BBC Radio 2 topical comedy show CLIVE ANDERSON’S CHAT ROOM comes to a close this week (TX: Thursday 7 May, 2200 hours, Radio 2), with this week’s guests: GREGG PROOPS, certified national treasure JOHN SERGEANT, SARAH MILLICAN, and JOHANN HARI.
The series returns in SEPTEMBER 2009. Don’t touch that dial.
RSS