Success for the Save Audio Drama Campaign   - The Society of Authors BBC Radio 4 launches a new 90 minute slot following the #SaveAudioDrama campaign

BBC Radio 4 launches a new 90 minute slot following the #SaveAudioDrama campaign - societyofauthors.org/2025/04/04/s...

BBC announces monthly 90-minute play slot on Radio 4, following campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain The BBC is launching a monthly 90-minute play slot starting later in the spring on BBC Radio 4, which will focus on new audio dramas and original adaptations of classic …

Last night at the Audio Drama Awards, the BBC announced a 90-min monthly play slot on Radio 4

It follows campaigning by WGGB, sister unions + the audio drama community to #SaveAudioDrama

Thanks to our members who joined the campaign

Our response 🔽

writersguild.org.uk/bbc-announce...

Sign the Petition Save Audio Drama at the BBC

S4 can be found wherever you listen to podcasts with episodes released fortnightly from 3 March.
Sign the petition here - www.change.org/p/save-audio...
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#SaveAudioDrama #CreativeRights

A fantastic piece from Katie Hims. Please read!
#SaveAudioDrama #DramaOn3 #BBCRadio3 #SADattheBBC

Here's another supporter of the #SaveAudioDrama at the #BBC petition. Like Julia, I use these plays in my teaching too. She posted this video on the petition website - you can add your voice as well: www.change.org/p/save-audio...
#SADattheBBC #WorldRadioDay #RadioDrama #AudioDrama

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#SaveAudioDrama

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Drama on 3 - Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw - BBC Sounds An adaptation of Shaw's play dramatising the life and trials of Joan of Arc.

But you can also listen to George Bernard Shaw's 'Saint Joan':
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Both are worth a listen. #SaveAudioDrama #RadioDrama (2/2)

Drama on 3: Saint Joan of the Anthropocene 8.00pm Radio 3 Radio 3 has broadcast a play every Sunday evening for as long as most people can remember, but now there is a plan to bring the slot to an end, leading to protests from the community of radio dramatists. Their dismay is understandable. Drama on 3 is a platform for both new and established talent, with tonight's powerful offering - a take on George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, in which it's a Greta Thunberg-like activist who is the heroine - being a mixture of both. One feels for all involved -writer Linda Marshall Griffiths, 23-year-old Safia Oakley-Green in the title role, that magnificent servant of radio drama Toby Jones, and the whole of the rest of the production. Tough times. SIMON O'HAGAN

I've been disappointed that @radiotimes.bsky.social haven't run an article about the axing of BBC Radio 3 drama (or any reader letters - I know that some have been sent). But there are clearly some concerns among their journos...
#SaveAudioDrama #RadioDrama #AudioDrama #DramaOn3

Liz is absolutely right. If you don't know what the fuss is about, listen to some BBC Radio 3 drama. There's a wealth of wonderful plays on BBC Sounds. Follow the link below or reply to this post telling me what sort of drama you like & I'll recommend something currently available.
#SaveAudioDrama

If you're one of the 9,000 people who've signed the petition to #SaveAudioDrama please write to @theguardian.com and put them straight on their idea that only "thesps" care about this stuff.
And if you haven't yet signed the petition, please do: www.change.org/p/save-audio...
#RadioDrama #AudioDrama

I want to challenge almost every paragraph of this for being misleading if not actually untruthful. It's presenting a very particular (biased) point of view. And where's the mention of the petition, signed by thousands of people and accompanied by scores of impassioned comments? #SaveAudioDrama

That's how I feel about Drama on 3.
#SaveAudioDrama
#RadioDrama #BBCRadio3

#AudioDrama Reviving the airwaves or a missed tune? BBC axes Radio 3’s Drama slot, fueling debate. Financial strains cited, but voices in the arts industry protest. Equity’s petition pushes to #SaveAudioDrama, highlighting its cultural and professional value. BBC, will you listen? #Radio3