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RADIO
“The poet and dramatist Michael Symmons Roberts is an outstanding writer, whom radio has done much to nurture.”
Sunday Times – Paul Donovan
DRAMA includes…
BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – ‘Brimstone’ – for ‘Afternoon Play’ – 2000
BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – ‘Cleaning the Pipes’ – for ‘Fact to Fiction’ – 2006
BBC Radio 3 commissioned drama – ‘Soldiers in the Sun’ – 2007
[WINNER OF CLARION AWARD, SHORTLISTED FOR MENTAL HEALTH AWARD]
BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – ‘Worktown’ – for ‘Afternoon Play’ – 2008
BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – ‘Breath’- adaptation of MSR’s novel for ‘Friday Play’ – 2008
BBC Radio 3 commissioned drama – ‘Idylls of the King’ – adaptation of Tennyson poem – 2009
BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – ‘A Man in Pieces’ – for ‘Afternoon Play’ – 2010
BBC Radio 3 commissioned drama – ‘Migrant Mother’ – for ‘Drama on 3’ – 2010
BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – ‘Crimes of Mancunia’ – for ‘Afternoon Drama’ – 2011
BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – ‘Songs and Lamentations’ – for ‘Classic Serial’ – 2012
BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – ‘The Sleeper’ – for ‘Saturday Play’ – 2013
BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – ‘The Flea’ – for ‘Afternoon Drama’ – 2013
POEMS include…
2002: Radio 4 commission – ‘Last Words’ – poem to mark 1st Anniversary of 9/11, performed by Sir Antony Sher, with music by John Harle.
2000 : Radio 4 / World Service commissioned poem for Hiroshima Day – ‘A Fearful Symmetry.’ Performed by actress Fiona Shaw and tenor Robert Tear, with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra playing music by James Whitbourn.
[WINNER OF PREMIER SANDFORD ST MARTIN BROADCASTING AWARD]
2000 : Radio 2 commission – ‘Behold the Man’ – 6 part biography of Jesus. Performed by Derek Jacobi, repeated on BBC World Service.
2001 : Radio 4 commission – ‘The Wounds’ – poem for Good Friday, performed by Simon Russell-Beale, with music by James Whitbourn.
2002 : Radio 4 commission – ‘The Hurricane’ – poem for Pentecost, performed by Fiona Shaw, with music by James Whitbourn.
2004: Radio 4 commissioned poem – ‘Crossing the Dark Sea’ in collaboration with composer James Whitbourn, to mark D-Day anniversary. Performed by Christopher Eccleston and Katherine Jenkins.
2003: Radio 4 commissioned poem – ‘White Nights’
2003: Radio 4 commissioned poem for ‘Today’ programme on National Poetry Day.
Plus commissioned poems for Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’ including…
2013: Miss Molasses – to mark the move of ‘The Verb’ to Salford.
FEATURES include…
1999 : Radio 2 commission – ‘Anno Domini’ – 11 part history of Christianity in Britain, performed by Derek Jacobi.
2002 : Radio 4 commission – ‘A Higher Place’ – writer and presenter of series on Sacred Mountains of the world.
2002: Radio 2 commission – writer and presenter of ‘Landscape of Remembrance’, on the poets of the First World War.
2002: Radio 4 commission – ‘Keeping the Feast’
2003: Radio 4 commission – ‘Hound of Heaven’ – on the Victorian poet Francis Thompson.
[CELTIC FILM FESTIVAL AWARD – SHORTLIST]
2003: Radio 2 commission – ‘The Good Book’ – 6 part series on the Bible. Winner of the Premier Award at the Jerusalem Trust Awards 2004.
2003: Radio 4 commission – ‘The Chair’ – on Welsh poetry.
2003: Writer & presenter of ‘The Cross’ – documentary on Radio 4.
2004: Writer of Radio 2 six part series ‘Sacred Nation’ – a history of multi-faith Britain, presented by Christopher Eccleston
2008: Writer and presenter of ‘Elegy’ – feature about the history and meaning of the poetic elegy.
2009: Writer and presenter of ‘Utopian Pessimist’ – feature about Simone Weil.
2013: LS Lowry – writer and presenter of feature on Tate retrospective for Radio 4.