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Writing the Century

Founder member, Vanessa Rosenthal has another major new commission from BBC Radio 4.

Called ‘Writing the Century’ it is to be a dramatised history of the Twentieth Century told mainly through unpublished diaries, letters and memoirs.

The first part of this commission is to be 4 weeks of programmes going out a week at a time in January, February, April and June 2008 with the same to follow for 2009 and 2010.

The programmes are to be inter-active with a push this Autumn via Local Radio Stations to invite listeners to contribute their own family letters: ‘Search that attic, cellar or outhouse’.

The first transmission was broadcast in the week commencing December 31st 2007.