Scriptwriter
SKYBLUE, winner of the Best Dramatic Production in the 2013 New Zealand Radio Awards, returns to the airwaves this Sunday 16 June at 3:04pm.
Set in a forensic psychiatric unit, the one-hour drama spends a day at the sharp edge of New Zealand’s mental health system.
The cast includes Tess Jamieson, Jamie McCaskill, Nigel Collins and Mick Rose. SKYBLUE is produced by Jason Te Kare, engineered by Phil Benge, and brought to you by Radio New Zealand National.
Gail at Radio New Zealand very kindly emailed me to advise that my first radio play, O le Samaria, will be rebroadcast this Sunday, 22 July at 3:26pm as part of RNZ’s Drama Hour.
Bonus: Goodbye My Feleni‘s Shadon Meredith is one of the voice actors in Samaria.
In December 2010 I went down to my oul’ home toon to sit in on the recording of a radio drama I wrote. I bragged about it, of course. Now it’s about to hit the airwaves.
SKYBLUE will be broadcast on SUNDAY 13 MAY 2012 at 3:05pm (New Zealand time) on National Radio.
Getting stuff out is a collaborative effort so even though I wrote it, other people made it a reality. Big ups to —
— the actors: Tess Jamieson, Jamie McCaskill, Nigel Collins, Mick Rose, Nick Dunbar, Asalemo Tofete, Amy Tarlton, Phil Grieve, Tina Cook, Rob Lloyd, Duncan Smith, and Prue Langbein;
— engineer Phil Benge; and
— producer Jason Te Kare.
I know, I know: twelve bleedin’ speaking parts (Jason was very, very tactful in pointing this out to me).
And thanks also to the reality-checkers: Dr Christina Birkin and Dr Melanie Woodfield for reading various drafts, and helping shape sensationally-dramatic-but-irresponsibly-unethical-and-inaccurate scenes into equally-grippingly-dramatic-but-more-butt-clenchingly-realistic ones.
