Words & Music I’m so proud to be on the next episode of this wonderful programme on BBC Radio 3 this sunday! Let’s write a list. From the week’s shopping to the Ten Commandments, from the pop charts to the phone directory, life is full of lists. This exploration of our obsession with list-making includesContinue reading “Words and Music”
Category Archives: Radio Drama
The Eternal Moment (Radio Drama)
Listen here to the mind-bending Radio Play by Iain Chambers and Peter Blegvad. It was such a pleasure to perform alongside the wonderful John Ramm. The transformative power of storytelling is explored through my character Zoe, a psychiatric patient who believes she is the Queen of Time. Zoe is confident that her map-like drawings can evokeContinue reading “The Eternal Moment (Radio Drama)”
BBC Radio Drama “Austerlitz”
On Sunday December 16, 2012, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a radio dramatisation of W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz. It was lovely to work with the great John Taylor from Fiction Factory again. The first of Sebald’s haunting masterpieces to be dramatised for radio, it follows its protagonist on a haunting tour of European cities, frontiers toContinue reading “BBC Radio Drama “Austerlitz””
Sony Radio Award
I’m pleased to say that ‘Use It Or Lose It’ won a Silver in the Drama category of the Sony Radio Award. Here’s what the judges said, “In awarding the Silver to this production, the drama panel was very impressed by the narrative structure and the way the sound employed played as much a partContinue reading “Sony Radio Award”
Use it or Lose it (Radio Drama)
I enjoyed playing the parts of nurse Angela and Kitty in this Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 3, directed by Iain Chambers. With Dame Harriet Walter and David Horovitch starring, it combined narrated fiction with observations from the world of history and culture. A radiophonic exploration of one man’s failing mind by the American musicianContinue reading “Use it or Lose it (Radio Drama)”
In The Gloaming podcast
Emma has been performing in In The Gloaming, an anthology series of comedy-horror podcasts in the vein of Tales of The Unexpected and Hammer House of Horror released almost-monthly. Written and directed by Nathaniel Tapley and produced by Raoul Brand. Listen to an episode [audio: http://www.emmapowell.co.uk/wp-content/audio/TheNightWhisperer_11.mp3%5D Reviews “I thought that was really pretty horribly funny…Continue reading “In The Gloaming podcast”
