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This weekend the winners of the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2017 will be announced.

Valene Kane is up for Best Supporting Actor/Actress for THE STROMA SESSIONS.

UA also have some wonderful writers in the running for awards. Al Smith ’s LIFE LINES is nominated for Best Audio...

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Congratulations to Marion Coutts , who has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir THE ICEBERG (UK: Atlantic Books; US: Grove Atlantic).

THE ICEBERG was longlisted for the Guardian First Book award, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa...

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Matthew Kirton

A Liverpool Everyman Young Writers’ Programme graduate, in November 2016 Matt won Write to Green Light receiving a development option with Green Door Pictures and Lionsgate UK for pilot script SIN OF GOD.

Matt is also an ITV / Red Planet Prize 2020 finalist (THE MOTHER OF ALL MURDERS) and MA Screenwriting graduate at Liverpool John Moores University.

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Congratulations to Alice Oswald, who has won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award for her latest collection, FALLING AWAKE . The collection was also shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Collection , and is currently shortlisted for the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize , which will be announced on 16...

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Following the recent success of GIVING, Hannah Patterson's PLATINUM opens tonight at the Hampstead Theatre. This intriguing new play explores the impact that success and celebrity have on relationships and why honesty is not always the best policy. Adam...

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Benighted , J B Priestley 's original haunted house psychodrama and a spine-chilling comedy that inspired The Rocky Horror Show and countless imitators, is brought to the stage for the very first time. Originally published as a novel in 1927, Benighted was brought to the screen by James Whale...

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Polka Theatre's adaptation of Dick King-Smith 's classic children's book has opened to excellent reviews.

Directed by Michael Fentiman , Babe the Sheep Pig features a host of UA talent, including designer Madeleine Girling , composer Barnaby Race , lighting designer Jack Knowles , and sound designer George Dennis...

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The Evening Standard British Film Awards 2016 winners were announced last night with Hayley Squires winning the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Katie in ‘I, Daniel Blake’.

Ken Loach’s film also picked up the Everyman Award for Best Film and Most Powerful Scene Award....

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WILD HONEY opens tonight at the Hampstead Theatre and runs until the 21st of January!

Are you really such a terrible Don Juan? You look so handsome in the moonlight!

Village schoolmaster Platonov has it all: wit, intelligence, a comfortable and respectable life in provincial Russia, and...

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This Friday 9 th December sees the launch of the brand new Netflix drama MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE .

The upcoming series features a host of UA actors, including Alessandro Sperduti , Lex Shrapnel , David Bradley, James Murray , and Daniel Caltagirone , while Alex von Tunzelmann has...

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