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Pauline Harris is a Radio drama director and producer at BBC Manchester.
Race in the Media Award for best drama in 2000, and Those Old Metal Things was also nominated for this award.[1]
Race in the Media Award for best drama in 2001.[2]
Sony Award for best drama in 2008.[3]
Radio Plays
Radio Plays Directed or Produced by Pauline Harris
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Date first broadcast | Play | Author | Station Series | |
8 June 1999 | Those Old Metal Things [4] | Trish Cooke | Afternoon Play
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Cast | Trish Cooke, Jake Abraham, Mona Hammond, Cathy Tyson, Claire Benedict and Treva Ettienne | |||
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Awards | Nominated – Radio drama – Race in the Media Awards 2000 [1]
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11 July 1999 | Document of Identity [5] [6] [7] | Wole Soyinka | BBC Radio 3 The Sunday Play | |
Cast | Paterson Joseph, Rakie Ayola, Oluwawemimo Oyelana, Ehizogie Odigie, Patrice Naiambana, Anthony Ofoegbu, Claire Benedict, Ron Berglas, Brigit Forsyth, Martin Reeve and Israel Aduramo | |||
Synopsis | Semi-autobiographical story of the problems Wole Soyinka's daughter encountered during a stopover in Britain when she fled Nigeria for the US in 1997; her baby was born prematurely in London and became stateless. | |||
Awards | Winner – Radio drama – Race in the Media Awards 2000 [1]
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14 November 2000 | Listen to Your Parents [8] [9] | Benjamin Zephaniah Music by: Tayo Akimbode |
Afternoon Play
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Cast | James Smith, Flo Wilson, Charlie Ryan and Burt Caesar | |||
Synopsis | A young boy with a violent father captures his thoughts in simple poems. | |||
Awards | Winner – Radio drama – Race in the Media Awards 2001 [2]
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28 November 2001 | Always the Bridesmaid [10] | Noël Greig | Afternoon Play
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Cast | Brlglt Forsyth, Helen Schlesinger, Russell Dixon, Maxine Burth, John Griffin, Robbie Gee, Claire Benedict and Christine Roberts | |||
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22 April 2003 | The Other Side of Truth [11] | Beverley Naidoo | Afternoon Play
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Cast | Chinyeregreg Egu, Ife Okpor, Royjude Akuwudike, Claire Benedict, Wale Ojo, Stephen Crttchlow, Noma Dumezweni, Anita Barzey and Abadesi Osunsade | |||
Synopsis | In the immediate aftermath of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other journalists, a Nigerian girl and her younger brother must leave suddenly after their mother is killed in a failed assassination of their outspoken father. | |||
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17 May 2004 | I Was a Stranger [12] | Peter Spafford | Afternoon Play
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Cast | Chiwetel Ejlofor, Lfe Okpor, Robert Plckavance, Helen Longworth, Claire Benedict, Patrice Nalambana, David Reeshman and Rosie Reeshman | |||
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12 December 2004 | The Provoked Wife [13] [14] | John Vanbrugh adapted by Jim Poyser | BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 | |
Cast | Julian Rhind-Tutt, Tom Mannion, Dave Hill, Saskia Reeves, Sarah Smart, Josie Lawrence, Tonia Chauvet, David Crellin and Alexander Delamere | |||
Synopsis | 17th century Restoration comedy
The hitherto virtuous Lady Brute is provoked to infidelity by her sour husband Sir John Brute. Married in haste they are shackled by wedlock – but looking for diversions. | |||
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25 November 2007 | Lorca's Rural Trilogy: Blood Wedding [15] [16] | Federico García Lorca translated by Ted Hughes music by Matthew Wood |
BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 | |
Cast | Barbara Flynn, Carl Prekopp, Sarah Smart, William Ash, Andrea Riseborough, David Fleeshman, Mary Cunningham, Ellie Haddington, Claire Benedict, Liz Carter, Sam Curtis, Chris Hannon and Daisy Jones | |||
Synopsis | A wedding links feuding families in the mountains of Almería. | |||
Awards | Bronze Sony Award for best drama, 2008 [3]
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30 May 2010 — 6 June 2010 | Bright Day [17] | J. B. Priestley dramatised by Diana Griffiths | BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial | |
Cast | Jack Shepherd, Liza Sadovy, Dean Smith, Sarah Smart, Sarah Churm, Lowri Evans, Conrad Nelson, Fred Ridgeway, Janice McKenzie, David Fleeshman, Fine Time Fontayne, Seamus O'Neill and Steve Marsh | |||
Synopsis | Writer Gregory Dawson goes to a seaside hotel in First World War youth in West Yorkshire .
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26 September 2010 | Lorca's Rural Trilogy: Yerma [18] | Federico García Lorca adapted by Pauline Harris music by Conrad Nelson |
BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 | |
Cast | Emma Cunniffe, Conrad Nelson, Declan Wilson, Rebecca Callard, Annette Badland, Claire Benedict, Kate Layden, Deborah McAndrew, Fionnuala Dorrity, Liz Carter, Helen Longworth, Kevin Harvey and Anna Castineiras | |||
Synopsis | The story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime. | |||
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18 September 2010 | Lump Boy Logan [19] [20] | Chris Wilson | BBC Radio 3 The Wire | |
Cast | William Rush, Smug Roberts, Annette Badland and Stephen Hoyle | |||
Synopsis | An adolescent boy's struggle with his severe acne, his distant father and his 'Evil Auntie Jeanette'. | |||
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18 April 2011 – 22 April 2011 | Sherbet Dolls [21] | Karen Brown | Woman's Hour Drama
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Cast | Naomi Radcliffe, John Thomson, Shannon Flynn, Shamae Griffin, Melissa Jane Sinden, Kathryn Hunt and Seamus O'Neill | |||
Synopsis | Olivia, 12, has entered a children's beauty pageant, to placate her mother who thinks fame would bring a better future for the whole family. | |||
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29 October 2011 | Something Wicked This Way Comes [22] | Ray Bradbury adapted by Diana Griffiths music by David Paul Jones |
Saturday Play
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Cast | Theo Gregory, Josef Lindsay, Henry Goodman, Kenneth Cranham, Gerard McDermott, Barbara Barnes, Buffy Davis, Taran Stanzler, Amelia Clarkson and Ethan Brooke | |||
Synopsis | Two 13-year-old best friends have a nightmarish experience when a traveling carnival comes to their Midwestern home. | |||
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3 July 2012 | The Beautiful Ugly [23] | Lavinia Murray | Afternoon Drama
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Cast | Ellis Hollins, Jonathan Keeble, Fiona Clarke, Kathryn Hunt and Seamus O'Neil | |||
Synopsis | An imagined day in the childhood of Hans Christian Andersen, combining fact with fantasy. | |||
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2 March 2014 | Lorca's Rural Trilogy: The House of Bernarda Alba [24] | Federico García Lorca translated by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata adapted by Pauline Harris music by Conrad Nelson |
BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 | |
Cast | Siân Thomas, Brigit Forsyth, Pauline Jefferson, Kate Coogan, Victoria Brazier, Christine Bottomley, Elaine Cassidy, Christine Cox and Daisy Jones
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Synopsis | Upon her second husband's death, domineering matriarch Bernarda Alba imposes an eight-year mourning period on her five daughters, whom she has controlled inexorably and prohibited from any form of relationship. The mourning period further isolates them and tension mounts within the household. | |||
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13 July 2014 | Death and the King's Horseman [25] [26] | Wole Soyinka | BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 | |
Cast | Jude Akuwudike, Danny Sapani, Claire Benedict, Rakie Ayola, Hazel Holder, Ayo-Dele Edwards, Jonathan Keeble, Zoë Tapper, Anthony Ofoegbu, Maynard Eziashi and Adetomiwa Edun | |||
Synopsis | Based on a real incident that took place in 1940s ritual suicide by the colonial authorities.
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21 November 2015 | Blood, Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 1.1. Animals [27] | Émile Zola adapted by Dan Rebellato | BBC Radio 4 Saturday Drama | |
Cast | Glenda Jackson, Robert Lindsay, Fenella Woolgar, Ian Hart, Ashley Margolis, Shannon Flynn, Robert Jack, Jonathan Keeble, Seamus O'Neill and Kate Coogan | |||
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26 November 2015 | Blood, Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 1.6. Art [28] | Martin Jameson
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Afternoon Drama
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Cast | Glenda Jackson, Bryan Dick, Georgina Campbell, Richard Hand, Stephen Fletcher and David Fleeshman | |||
Synopsis | inspired by Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels | |||
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27 November 2015 | Blood, Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 1.7. Masterpiece [29] | Martin Jameson
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Afternoon Drama
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Cast | Glenda Jackson, Bryan Dick, Georgina Campbell, Talia Barnett, Richard Hand, Stephen Fletcher, David Fleeshman and William Ash | |||
Synopsis | inspired by Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels | |||
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28 November 2015 | Blood, Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 1.8. Fury [30] | Martin Jameson
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BBC Radio 4 Saturday Drama | |
Cast | Glenda Jackson, William Ash, Christine Bottomley, Sean Gallagher, Seamus O'Neill, Ian Bartholomew, Olwen May and Rosie Fleeshman | |||
Synopsis | inspired by Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels | |||
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31 January 2016 | A Raisin in the Sun [31] | Lorraine Hansberry | BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 | |
Cast | Dona Croll, Nadine Marshall, Lenora Critchlow, Segun Fawole, Jude Akwudike, Cecilia Noble, Sean Baker and Richard Pepple
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Synopsis | An Chicago's South Side in the 1950s attempt to improve their financial circumstances with an insurance payout following the death of the father.
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13 May 2016 | Blood, Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 2.7. Affairs [32] | Émile Zola adapted by Lavinia Murray | Afternoon Drama
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Cast | Glenda Jackson, Jack Lowden, Alison Steadman, Verity Henry, Eric Potts, Rachel Austin and Fiona Clarke | |||
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25 October 2016 | Blood, Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 3.4. Swindle [33] | Émile Zola adapted by Lavinia Murray | Afternoon Drama
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Cast | Glenda Jackson, Pippa Haywood, Mathew Horne, Sydney Wade, Gracie Kelly, Talia Barnett and Malcolm Raeburn | |||
Synopsis | A "radical re-imagining" largely inspired by La joie de vivre by Émile Zola | |||
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26 October 2016 | Blood, Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 3.5. Inheritance [34] | Émile Zola adapted by Lavinia Murray | Afternoon Drama
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Cast | Glenda Jackson, Matthew McNulty, Angela Griffin, Emma Rigby, David Schofield, Jason Done, Danny Kirrane and Natasha Cowley | |||
Synopsis | A "radical re-imagining" largely inspired by La Terre by Émile Zola | |||
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27 October 2016 | Blood, Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 3.6. Reap [35] | Émile Zola adapted by Lavinia Murray | Afternoon Drama
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Cast | Glenda Jackson, David Schofield, Matthew McNulty, Angela Griffin, Jason Done, Emma Rigby, Danny Kirrane, Natasha Cowley and Luke MacGregor | |||
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8 January 2017 | Manfred [36] | Lord Byron adapted by Pauline Harris Music by Olly Fox |
BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 | |
Cast | Joseph Millson, Conrad Nelson, Jonathan Keeble, Henry Devas, Emily Pithon, Ruth Alexander Rubin and Fionnuala Dorrity | |||
Synopsis | Early 19th century Gothic fiction
Manfred, tortured by his own sense of guilt for an unmentionable offence, uses his mastery of spell-casting to summon spirits, from whom he seeks forgetfulness. | |||
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7 January 2018 | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore [37] | John Ford adapted by Pauline Harris | BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3 | |
Cast | Jessie Buckley, Damien Molony, Niall Buggy, Fenella Woolgar, Oliver Cotton, Matthew Pidgeon, Enzo Cilenti, Indira Varma, Gary Duncan, Neil McCaul, Adam Fitzgerald and Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong | |||
Synopsis | Giovanni, recently returned to Parma from university in Bologna, has developed an incestuous passion for his sister Annabella. | |||
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17 March 2020 | Edith Sitwell in Scarborough [38] [39] | Mary Cooper from an idea by Lavinia Murray | Afternoon Drama
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Cast | Glenda Jackson, Bella Ramsey, Julia Davis, Jonathan Keeble and Roger Ringrose | |||
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Sources:
- Pauline Harris's radio play listing at Diversity website
- Pauline Harris's radio play listing at RadioListings website
- Pauline Harris's radio play listing at Audio Drama Wiki
Television
Television Directed by Pauline Harris | ||||
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Date first broadcast | Play | Author | Station Company | |
12 November 2010 | Moving On: I Am Darleen Fyles [40] | Esther Wilson
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BBC One | |
Cast | Edmund Davies, Danielle Henry, Stephen Chapman, Jodie Kate Hamblet, Alice Grice, Craig Cheetham and Ellie Leach
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Synopsis | A young woman suffering with anxiety and depression finds solace in an elderly care home resident after her boyfriend becomes concerned over the number of phone calls she is making to the emergency services. | |||
28 March 2012 | Secrets and Words: A Study in Time [41] | Esther Wilson
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30 January 2013 | Moving On: Friends Like These [42] | Shaun Duggan | BBC One | |
Cast | Gillian Kearney, Natasha Little, Rachel Leskovac, Mark Chatterton, Sushil Chudasama, Fiona Wass, Ashley Ogden, Joseph Wilkins, Matteo Elezi, Olivia Cosgrove and Alex Lee Taylor | |||
Synopsis | A single parent, struggling with money worries and social relationships, finds solace in the parent of a new child at the local school. However, when her new friend becomes obsessive to the point of stalking, she realises now is the time to finally stand up for herself. |
References
- ^ a b c Race in the Media Awards 2000 – The Guardian, 3 November 2000
- ^ a b Race in the Media Awards 2001 – Ashley Davies, The Guardian, 6 April 2001
- ^ a b The Sony Radio Academy Awards 2008 – The Guardian, 13 May 2008
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Those Old Metal Things
- ^ BBC – The Sunday Play – Document of Identity
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – Document of Identity
- ^ BBC World Service: New Schedules – Easy Listening, April 2000
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Listen to Your Parents
- ^ BBC – Radio Times – Listen to Your Parents
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Always the Bridesmaid
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Other Side of Truth
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – I Was a Stranger
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – The Provoked Wife
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – The Provoked Wife
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – Lorca's Rural Trilogy: Blood Wedding
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – Blood Wedding
- ^ BBC – Classic Serial – Bright Day
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – Lorca's Rural Trilogy: Yerma
- ^ BBC – The Wire – Lump Boy Logan
- ^ BBC – writersroom — Chris Wilson – Lump-Boy Logan
- ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Sherbet Dolls
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play – Something Wicked This Way Comes
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – The Beautiful Ugly
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – Lorca's Rural Trilogy: The House of Bernarda Alba
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – Death and the King's Horseman
- ^ BBC – Media Centre – Drama On 3: Death And The King’s Horseman
- ^ BBC – Saturday Drama – Blood Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 1.1. Animals
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – Blood Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 1.6. Art
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – Blood Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 1.7. Masterpiece
- ^ BBC – Saturday Drama – Blood Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 1.8. Fury
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – A Raisin in the Sun
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – Blood Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 2.7. Affairs
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – Blood Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 3.4. Swindle
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – Blood Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 3.5. Inheritance
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – Blood Sex and Money by Émile Zola: 3.6. Reap
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – Manfred
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Drama – Edith Sitwell in Scarborough
- ^ BBC – Sounds – Edith Sitwell in Scarborough
- ^ BBC – Moving On – I Am Darleen Fyles
- ^ BBC – Secrets and Words – A Study in Time
- ^ BBC – Moving On – Friends Like These
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