My radio script ‘Sky Pilots’ has made the short-list of the BBC Solent Radio Playwrights competition. I will be interviewed(!), live on the radio this Friday morning, and the 3 winning plays will be revealed over the course of the day. There will be a day of workshopping on 27th March and the 3 plays will be performed in Chandlers Ford on 12th April 2018.
There were over 350 entries so I feel delighted to have made the short-list, especially as I mis-read the original brief – I assumed they were looking for authors with a connection to Dorset/Hampshire/Isle of Wight and not stories with a connection to Dorset/Hampshire/Isle of Wight!
Fortunately, I realised my error with a week to go before the deadline and I managed to come up with a fun idea: Jonathan, a recently ordained (and rather prim) vicar and his wacky girlfriend Lucy are marooned in her hot air balloon when the wind drops. As they wait to be rescued by her ground crew, the clouds below them thin, revealing the most embarrassing of landmarks: The Cerne Abbas Giant.
Stephen Connolly Writer 