Sarah Wooley

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    • Black Water
    • Festival
    • 4/4
    • The Robber Bride
    • The Vital Spark: Intelligence
    • Victim
    • Everybody's Got Conditions
    • 1977
    • Fifteen Minutes
    • Planning Permission
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'Kramer versus kramer'

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Sarah’s new two part dramatisation of Avery Corman’s novel Kramer Versus Kramer is now available on BBC Sounds here 

New York, 1977 and workaholic Ted Kramer is forced to re-think his priorities when his wife Joanna leaves, making him sole guardian of their five-year-old son.
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Starring Jacob Fortune Lloyd as Ted and Lydia Wilson as Joanna. 

Radio Pick of the week in the Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Radio Times, The Observer and The Guardian.

Read about Sarah’s writing process here on the BBC Writers page.

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Hear Sarah talk about the novel here


'star'

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Sarah's new radio drama was broadcast on 3rd November 2024 on BBC Radio 3, and is now available on iPlayer here

1952. Judy Garland, let go by MGM for her erratic behaviour, is determined to make a comeback. She and soon-to-be husband Sid Luft start their own production company and get the rights to remake classic 30s film 'A Star Is Born' as a musical. This time, they will be in control.

But Judy's demons are never far away, and everyone has underestimated the power of the Hollywood machine... 


Starring Lydia Wilson as Judy Garland and Nigel Lindsay as Harold Arlen.

Radio Pick of the week in the Radio Times, Daily Telegraph and The Observer.

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the independent's best 25 radio dramas 

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​Sarah's brilliantly-received Radio 4 drama 'Happy Birthday Mr President' has made The Independent's​ list of the best 25 radio dramas available to listen right now.

Click here to listen on BBC iPlayer.

Click the image to read Simon's O'Hagan's fantastic article.


'Happy Birthday Mr President'

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Sarah's new radio drama was broadcast on 14th February 2023 on BBC Radio 4, and is now available on iPlayer here.

The drama behind one of the most famous birthday parties in history. In 1962, the cream of American show business were asked to perform at JKF's birthday party at Madison Square Garden but there was one star who outshone them all.

Starring Lydia Wilson as Marilyn Monroe and Justin Salinger as Richard Adler


'Working'

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Sarah’s adaptation of Studs Terkel's 'Working' was broadcast on Sunday 6th November 2022

It was Radio Pick of the Week in The Guardian and The Sunday Times and Pick of the Day in the Radio Times. 

Listen again on iPlayer here until 6th December.


'People Everywhere Will Sing'

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Sarah’s latest play for Radio, ‘People Everywhere Will Sing’ staring Oliver Ford Davies and Fenella Woolgar was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 16th October at 7.30pm.

It concluded Radio 3’s celebrations for Ralph Vaughan Williams' 150th anniversary.  

​It is now available to listen on BBC Sounds here


Radio Pick Of The Week in The Observer and The Daily Telegraph

Radio Pick Of The Day in The Radio Times, Mail on Sunday and Sunday Express.



‘Beautifully crafted’  Radio Times

‘Excellent’ Stephanie Billen The Observer

'Superb' Gerard Donovan Sunday Telegraph


 
BBC Radio 3 Autumn 2022 Highlights

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