The Show What You Wrote

This caught my attention on Twitter the other day, thought I'd share it here, although there isn't much information on hand at the minute.

jane berthoud ‏@JBerthoud
Announcing new series for non commissioned writers: The Show What You Wrote will be on @BBCRadio4 in June. details soon ..get thinkin

https://twitter.com/JBerthoud

Quote: blahblah @ February 5 2013, 2:30 PM GMT

A bit more info has appeared http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kvs8r/features/the-show-what-you-wrote

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Quote: DubiousG @ February 21 2013, 2:31 PM GMT

Looks like the deadline for this has been extended to March 29th

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunities/the-show-what-you-wrote

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Quote: Bleurgh @ March 20 2013, 9:07 AM GMT

You've probably already noticed this, but Tom Neenan and Jack Bernhardt have posted example scripts on the show's website to illustrate what they're after - there's one for thriller and one for kitchen sink.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r1s2h/features/kitchen-sink-example

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r1s2h/features/thriller-example

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Sounds promising.

It might be nice to know what specifically to get thinking about, but otherwise exciting.

Thanks for the share Ben, very nice of you.

A bit more info has appeared http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kvs8r/features/the-show-what-you-wrote

Wow - 10 sketches per episode? Good luck to the readers! This looks like a great opportunity, thanks for posting.

This sounds a pretty good opportunity.

Quote: Badge @ February 5 2013, 2:40 PM GMT

Wow - 10 sketches per episode? Good luck to the readers! This looks like a great opportunity, thanks for posting.

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Yeah. I thought that. I was expecting the '2 max' that Recorded For Training Purposes let you send, but '50 max' is both generous and ambitious!

Dan

Is everyone else reading it as one deadline for all episodes?

10! 10! Clearly someone at Radio 4 really likes reading non-com scripts.

Mind you I'm not sure I'm going to be able to write 50 sketches suitable for Radio 4 standard in a month.

Quote: blahblah @ February 5 2013, 2:57 PM GMT

Is everyone else reading it as one deadline for all episodes?

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Looks like it.

I'm not sure I can write top quality sketches on all those themes. I'm tempted to write a few number of sketches on one of the themes and tailor them so they end up perfect.

Looks like a superb opportunity but I hope they realise that up to 2,000 people will be sending in 10 sketches for 5 episodes.

That's 100,000 sketches in total...

This sounds like a great opportunity.

It's just a shame that the writing period coincides with the next series of Newsjack.

That's probably not a coincidence; more a 'keeping the numbers down' tactic!

Deadline is 4th March, so you've got 27 days to write 50 sketches. Alongside 12 sketches you can enter for Newsjack in the same period. That's 62 sketches in the next 27 days!

I imagine that's a piece of piss, especially for those of us who are simultaneously trying to write entries for Sitcom Mission and Sitcom Trials (31st March deadline).

So that's 2.3 sketches a day and 0.4 of a sitcom (assuming a single entry in each sitcom opp and no days off). That would be challenging enough without wasting 40 hours a week at work!

Dan