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BOAT STORY released on BBC1
The first episode of BOAT STORY aired on BBC 1 last night.
John Finnemore
John has been awarded Writers' Guild Award twice; firstly in 2011 for Best Radio Comedy for CABIN PRESSURE AT CHRISTMAS, and again for Best Radio Comedy in 2017 for DOUBLE ACTS: “English for Pony Lovers”.
Eilidh Fisher
Clementine Taylor
Clementine grew up in Oxford. After completing a BA in Theology & Religious Studies and an MPhil in Gender Studies, she spent a few years working as a researcher in Cambridge and London. Currently, she lives (back) in Oxford, where she is studying for a doctorate on AI and gender.
Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess was born in 1954 and was brought up in Sussex and Berkshire. He started writing in his twenties, and wrote on and off for fifteen years before having his first book, THE CRY OF THE WOLF, published in 1990.
Laura Neal
2012 Broadcast Hot Shot, Laura Neal began writing at 18 years old. Whilst studying at Bristol University she won the Hull Truck Prize (2007) and was selected for the Paines Plough Future Perfect scheme and the Royal Court writers programme in the same year.
Tanya Ronder
Kenny Doughty
Doc Brown
Ben ‘Doc Brown’ Smith originally made a name for himself as a rapper, known as much for his off-the-cuff freestyle rhymes on stage as for his self-deprecating style on record.