RECENT READINGS
ABRIDGED AND PRODUCED BY JILL WATERS FOR BBC RADIO FOUR

include:
 
BOOK OF THE WEEK :

JULIAN BARNES – ‘NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF’ read by the author
(March 08)

JULIE WALTERS’ memoir - THAT’S ANOTHER STORY read by the author (Sept/ October 08)

RICHARD HOLMES’ THE AGE OF WONDER - introduced by the author and read by Douglas Hodge (October 08)

Coming up in Book of the Week

‘SICK CITY’ part of Medical London by Richard Barnett ( Book of the Week) . Dec 08.

and

BOOK AT BEDTIME:

SOMEONE AT A DISTANCE - by Dorothy Whipple read by Deborah Findlay – a Persephone Classic. (Sept 08)

SOUTH OF THE RIVER - by Blake Morrison (April 07)

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN - by Paul Torday, read by Michael Sheen (Jan 07)

Coming up :

THE GUERNESY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY -
An epistolary novel by Mary Ann Shaffer (Jan 09)

And in the AFTERNOON READING slot :

ALAN HOWARD READS – (Oct 07) specially commissioned work by Tom Stoppard, Helen Simpson, Marina Warner, Julian Barnes and Nina Raine.

TELLING THE WORLD – (Nov 07) five storytellers weave their magic

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS – (April 08) five specially commissioned stories about encounters with technology. Including work by Erica Wagner, Brian Thompson, Adam Thorpe and Gerard Woodward.
 
 
 

'This event, produced by Jill Waters, was as near perfection as radio gets.' *

 
The Waters Company was founded in January 2008 and aims to build on a decade of production experience for BBC national radio which was preceded by a decade spent in the publicity and editorial departments of independent publishers as well as major publishing houses such as Penguin.

Our aim is to continue to bring the very best in radio readings (fiction – Book at Bedtime and Afternoon Reading; non-fiction - Book of the Week ) and drama (eg. Afternoon Play, The Woman’s Hour and Classic Serials on Radio 4) to an audience that spans the online, digital and analogue airwaves.

Through collaborations with a range of directors, writers, producers and actors The Waters Company is building a core group of creative talent who are enthusiastically able and willing to harness words and the stories they tell in challenging new ways.

Editorial consultancy, abridgement of texts for audio and radio production as well as audiobook production are also offered.
 
 

* from Andrew Billen’s New Statesman review – ‘Radio 4 achieves near-perfection with a selection of new short stories - Alan Howard Reads Radio 4’ October 18 2007

 
 
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THE WATERS COMPANY is a trading name of The Waters Partnership Ltd