Radio Plays - Paperback

by David Pownall (Author)

An Epiphanous Use of the Microphone was commissioned by the BBC for the 75th anniversary celebrations of BBC Radio drama and broadcast in May 1998.This and five previously unpublished David Pownall radio plays, each an award-winner, make up a compilation of some of this country's finest radio plays.

Also includes the plays Beef, Floss, Ploughboy Monday, Under the Table, and Kitty Wilkinson.

In May 2013, to celebrate David's 75th birthday, BBC Radio 4 chose to dedicate an entire season to the work of David Pownall, proving he is not only one of the most prolific writer of radio plays in the 20th and 21st century, but also one of the most talented. Read more about this season on Radio 4's blog: http: //www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/posts/David-Pownall-Season

Author Biography

David Pownall was born in Liverpool and he is a graduate of Keele University. He was dramatist in residence with the Century and Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster and co-founder of Paines Plough Theatre Company with John Adams. His internationally-performed plays include Music to Murder By, An Audience Called Edouard, Beef, Livingstone an Sechele and Master Class. Her most recent new play was Getting the Picture at The Lyric, Belfast. Theatre awards include the John Whiting Prize for Beef, the New York Theatre Yearbook, the LS Directors' Award for Livingstone and Sechele, and many others. David Pownall won the Writers' Guild Award for Radio Drama Tennyson and Edison in 2013. He has published ten novels and a collection of short stories.