Welcome to the BBC writersroom newsletter.
Five Days in May
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Deadline: 1 June 2010
The BBC are looking for rapid response scripts about the five days between the general election and the formation of the new government.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunity/five_days_in_may.shtml
Television Drama - The Writers' Festival 2010
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A two day exploration of new writing in Leeds for writers with a television broadcast credit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/television_drama_writers_debate.shtml
Tony Basgallop
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The writer of Worried About The Boy talks about his work
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/tony_basgallop.shtml
Stephen Butchard
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The writer of Five Daughters and House of Saddam talks about his career
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/stephen_butchard.shtml
New Scripts
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Our scripts are in PDF format - if you can't read them, download Adobe Reader from http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/categories/plug/acrobat/acrobat.shtml?intro
People Snogging in Public Places by Jack Thorne
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/downloads/scripts/people_snogging_in_public_places.pdf
Don't forget you can browse through all of the scripts in our script archive.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/script_archive.shtml
Submitting your script to BBC writersroom
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Want to write for the BBC? Find out what to send us on our script submissions page.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/writing/submissions_writersroom.shtml
Blog
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Wherein Joy talks about writing for Doctors, and Ceri about this year's Drama Writers Academy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/
Opportunities
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Old Vic New Voices
Deadline: 24 May 2010
The Old Vic are looking for writers aged 18-25 to create new theatre in just 24 hours
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunity/old_vic_new_voices1.shtml
Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award
Deadline: 1 July 2010
$2.500 award and readthrough at the International Emmy Awards for a half-hour or hour drama
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunity/sir_peter_ustinov_award.shtml