Kudos to Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre, which has announced a free, weekly writing programme, offering expert advice and training for budding playwrights. Hone Your Craft will cover character creation, re-drafting and structure, how commissioning works, and alternative ways to get work made. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2025
New scifi short passes the test
If a computer has a conversation with a human, and an evaluator can’t tell which is which, the machine is said to have passed the Turing test. Proposed 75 years ago by the British mathematician, Alan Turing, variations of the test are used today to assess the progress of artificial intelligence (AI). And that’s the … Continue reading
Drama / Television / Writing
Exploring the golden age of children’s TV drama
If there ever really was a golden age of children’s TV in the UK, surely it was the 1970s. Or do I only think that because that’s when I was a child? A new book A TV Box of Delights, subtitled A Golden Age of British Children’s TV, looks at programmes from the mid-1960s to … Continue reading