Radio Script Writers

Writers of radio shows, documentaries, radio plays etc.

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See also

* Screenwriters - writers of scripts for film and television drama/film

* Playwrights writers of dramatic literature or drama specifically to be performed by actors on stage.

A

• Robert Hardy Andrews (1903 - 1976) American novelist, screenwriter and radio drama scriptwriter.
• Jason Arnopp - novelist and scriptwriter, with a background in journalism. He wrote the 2011 horror feature Stormhouse and has scripted Doctor Who audiobooks and plays for the BBC and Big Finish ranges. In 2012, two of his horror stories, Beast In The Basement and A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home were published for Kindle. He has contributed to BBC Radio 4's Recorded for Training Purposes and Laurence & Gus comedy shows.
• Robert A. Arthur, Jr. (1909 – 1969) American American novelist and radio scriptwriter; mystery and speculative fiction writer

B

• Alfred Bester (1913-1987) American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books.
• Andrew Boyle - who joined the BBC as a radio scriptwriter and producer after the war. In 1965 he was the founding editor of the BBC Radio 4 programme The World At One
• Liwayway Arceo (1920–1999) was a multi-awarded Tagalog fictionist, journalist, radio scriptwriter and editor from the Philippines.
• Bernardo Atxaga (born July 27, 1951) (pseudonym of Joseba Irazu Garmendia) is a Spanish Basque writer and self-translator, bookseller, professor of the Basque language, a publisher, and a radio scriptwriter until 1980 when he dedicated himself completely to writing.

C

• James Casey (1922 – 2011) at various times Variety comedian on the English music-halls, a scriptwriter for BBC Radio's variety shows and situation comedies, and a senior BBC Radio Light Entertainment producer.
• Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney (née Higgins) (born 1927), known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark; American author of suspense novels. She worked for many years writing four-minute radio scripts until her agent convinced her to try writing novels.
• Virginia A. Coigney (1917 – 1997) civic leader, journalist and author and radio/television scriptwriter. She wrote scripts for the soap operas Young Doctor Malone and The Edge of Night
• Joe Connelly (1917 – 2003) television and radio scriptwriter born in New York City.

D

• Wally K Daly, (born 1940) English television and radio scriptwriter, one-time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
• Ian Davidson - British radio and television scriptwriter who also acted, directed and produced in television and the theatre from the 1960's. After performing and writing with Michael Palin and Terry Jones at Oxford University - his first BBC writing credit was for 'That Was The Week That Was' in 1963

E

• M J Elliott -
• David B. Eskind (1909-1992) - radio scriptwriter and producer. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee

F

• Violet Lucille Fletcher (1912 – 2000) American screenwriter of film, radio and television. See also Hermann below
• Ferrin Fraser (born 1969, Lockport, New York) radio scriptwriter and short story author who collaborated with Frank Buck on radio scripts and five books.

G

• William Gallagher - British writer, television and radio Script writer, journalist. Doctor Who.
• Ray Galton OBE (born 1930), and Alan Simpson OBE (born 1929), are British scriptwriters best known for their work with comedian Tony Hancock on radio and television between 1954 and 1961, and their long-running television situation comedy, Steptoe and Son, eight series of which were aired between 1962 and 1974.
• Richard Gibson (born 1954) English actor also works as a radio actor, scriptwriter and voiceover artist; probably best known for his role as the archetypal Gestapo Officer Herr Otto Flick in the BBC hit sitcom series, 'Allo 'Allo!.
• Denis Gifford (1927 – 2000) British writer, broadcaster, journalist, comic artist and historian of film, comics, television and radio. He wrote the first television series of comedy stars Morecambe and Wise, Running Wild (1954)

H

• Lucille Fletcher/Hermann began a five-year courtship with Bernard Hermann in 1934. The couple married on October 2, 1939. Fletcher was to become a noted radio scriptwriter, and she and Herrmann collaborated on several projects Bernard Herrmann (1911 – 1975) was an American composer known for his work in motion pictures.
• Charles Kenneth Horne, generally known as Kenneth Horne, (1907 – 1969) English radio script writer, comedian and businessman, best remembered for his work on three BBC Radio series: Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (1944–51), Beyond Our Ken (1958–64) and Round the Horne (1965–68).
• John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 1934) Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is also a film producer and script writer
• Max Huwyler (born 1931 in Zug) is a Swiss writer. Originally, Max Huwyler was a high school teacher in Zurich. He wrote several books for children, theatre plays, poetry, fiction stories and radio plays.

J

• Maurice Joachim was an actor and radio scriptwriter, who wrote episodes of the 1940s WMCA-produced Doc Savage series

K

• Ted Kavanagh (1892 – 1958) Henry Edward ("Ted") Kavanagh, British radio scriptwriter and producer who wrote scripts for the B.B.C. radio programme "Itma"

L

• Félix Leclerc (1914–1988), Canadian songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, actor, radio announcer, radio scriptwriter and writer

M

• Saadat Hasan Manto (1912 – 1955) Indian short story writer of the Urdu language best known for his short stories, "Bu" (Odour), "Khol Do" (Open It), "Thanda Gosht" (Cold Meat), and "Toba Tek Singh". He was also a film and radio scriptwriter and a journalist.
• Kathryn Anderson McLean (1908 - 1966), best known by her pen name Kathryn Forbes, was an American writer and memoirist. She radio scriptwriter before she began writing short stories.
• Edith Meiser radio scriptwriter
• Paul Mendelson (novelist). Television, film and radio scriptwriter.
• Carlton Errol Morse (1901 - 1993) American producer/journalist radio script writer best known for his creation of the radio serial One Man's Family, which debuted in 1932 and ran until 1959 as one of the most popular as well as long-running radio soap operas of the time.
• Bob Mosher (1915 - 1972) television and radio scriptwriter born in Auburn, New York.
• Joel A. Murcott, a Hollywood radio-television scriptwriter

N

• Denis Norden, CBE (born 1922) British television and radio scriptwriter and personality who began scriptwriting during World War II

O

• Peter O'Shaughnessy OAM (1923 – 2013) Australian actor, theatre director, producer, writer and scriptwriter. Collaborated with Barry Humphries and Don Whitelock

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R

• Vivienne Rae-Ellis, FRGS (1930 – 2015) Australian writer, who also wrote under the pseudonym Antonia Bell. Worked as a newspaper columnist, radio scriptwriter and broadcaster, television program host and public relations officer
• Lucas Tomás Muñiz Ramírez (1922 – 2009), better known as Tommy Muñiz, was a Puerto Rican comedy and drama actor, media producer, businessman and network owner. He started by being the messenger of the marketing firm where his father and uncle used to work, and eventually became a radio scriptwriter.
• W. R. Rodgers, (1909-1969) Norther Ireland poet, essayist, book reviewer, radio broadcaster, scriptwriter, lecturer, teacher and Presbyterian minister

S

• Robert Shearman (also credited as Rob Shearman); (born 1970) English television, radio scriptwriter, stage play and short story writer.
• Lawrence Geoffrey Stephens; (1923 – 1959) BBC radio scriptwriter, best remembered for co-writing The Goon Show with Spike Milligan

T

• Ronnie Taylor (1921 - 1979) English television and radio comedy scriptwriter, producer and director.
• Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972), French-Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and science-fiction consultant who moved to London, England in 1995

W

• George Orson Welles (1915 – 1985) American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theatre, radio and film. He is best remembered for his innovative work in all three media: in theatre, most notably Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking Broadway adaptation of Julius Caesar; in radio, the 1938 broadcast "The War of the Worlds", one of the most famous in the history of radio; and in film, Citizen Kane (1941), consistently ranked as one of the all-time greatest films.

Y

• Herman Yau Lai-To (Chinese: 邱禮濤), born 1961 in Hong Kong is a film director, scriptwriter. From 1997 to 1998, Yau participated in the filming of a TV series produced by Radio Television Hong Kong

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