Writers' Guild Of Gb

Olivia Hetreed talks to screenwriter Jeremy Brock about his work

From The Archers to Birds Of A Feather - scriptwriter Sue Teddern talks about her writing career.

Novelist and screenwriter Brendan Foley reads from his work and discusses aspects of being a professional writer in different forms.

Readings from poets Alan Brownjohn and Leo Aylen, and a discussion with the audience about aspects of poetry writing and performance. Recorded at the Guild's Off the Shelf at Black's Event, December 2012.

Darren Rapier talks to Howard Read about stand-up, the differences between writing comedy for adults and children, and creating an animated alter ego.

A recording from the Writers' Guild's annual meeting of literary managers from theatres across the country.

Darren Rapier speaks to two-time Tinniswood Award winner Stephen Wyatt about writing for stage and TV and radio.

Author, biographer and travel writer Lucinda Hawksley talks about her work, including Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens’s Artist Daughter. Recorded at the Guild's Off The Shelf At Black's Event, March 2012.

Screenwriter Lindsay Shapero talks to Oscar-winning British editor Jim Clark about his work on films such as Marathon Man, The Killing Fields and Vera Drake, and his thoughts about writing and writers. Jim's memoir Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing (with John H Myers) is published by LandMarc Press.

Amanda Whittington (playwright and Chair of the Writers' Guild Theatre Committee introduces three speakers at the Guild's Literary Managers meeting 2011: Kate Chapman (Director, Theatre Writing Partnership), Caroline Jester (Dramaturg, Birmingham Repertory Theatre) David Edgar - pictured (playwright and President of the Writers' Guild).

Carol Topolski, author of Monster Love and Do No Harm, offers an insight into her writing process.

Richard Bradbury talks about his work, including Riversmeet - a biography of Frederick Douglass, escaped slave and anti-slavery campaigner. Photo (right to left): Jan Woolf (WGGB Books Committee) and Richard Bradbury with the actors who read some of Richard's work ( Nicholas Bailey, Maureen Casey, Aidan Casey)

In the third of the Writers' Guild's Off the Shelf at Black's events, Jake Wallis Simons (pictured with Jan Woolf from the Guild's Books Committee) talks about his latest novel The English German Girl.

Susan Calman (stand-up comic and star of Radio 4’s News Quiz) chairs a panel discussing whether it has become easier for women writers to break into comedy. She is joined by Jo Bunting (producer of Have I Got News For You and That Sunday Show), Claire Zolkwer (head of comedy at ITV), Tamzin Cary executive producer of Paul and writer of new movie Albatross, and Andrea Mann (comedy writer).   Recorded at the Free Word Centre in London, 23 November 2011

Jemima Hunt talks about her career as a novelist and her current work-in-progress - recorded at the second Writers' Guild Off The Shelf At Black's event.

Experienced scriptwriters Chris Thompson and Dawn Harrison discuss their approach to writing for long-running TV series.

Jan Woolf introduces novelist Lindsay Clarke (The Water Theatre and Whitbread winner for The Chymical Wedding) at the first of the Writers' Guild's Off The Shelf At Black's events. Details of future events: http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/books/194-off-the-shelf-at-blacks

Elly Brewer and Amanda Swift discuss their approaches to writing television for children and young people.

Bill Armstrong talks about getting his first break on Doctors, writing the Indian Doctor for BBC TV and why he has learned to love script editors.

Writers' Guild General Secretary Bernie Corbett outlines major new developments in TV and radio, and responds to the recent legal judgement on the Google Books Settlement.