WHO’S THAT GIRL?
PART ONE: INFAMOUS
Join the students at Danson Wood High
Belle thinks she recognises a new pupil.
Katie…Isabel Singleton
Belle…Aerin Chappell
Music composed by Jude Neanor
The Best of DWS Audio
DWS Audio has entered this year’s Young Audio Awards in the ‘Station of the Year’ category. To enter, each school is required to send a 15-minute show-reel of their best bits. Below is a show-reel of our very own highlights from the last year! A big thank you to all of our students for their contribution to our audio blog.
The Ghost Hunt
An audio drama written by Ella Clarke
Investigating rumours of paranormal activity, journalists Pip and Kat set out on a ghost hunt.
Pip…Ella Clark
Kat…Emma Macovei
DWS Audio on BBC Radio Kent
On Monday another of our ‘Rough Diamonds’ episodes (Public House) featured on Leo Ulph’s Upload show on BBC Radio Kent. You can listen again via BBC Sounds. Click on the link below:
Upload on BBC Radio Kent – Bank Holiday Monday (08/05/2023) – BBC Sounds
From 52.00 to 56.30
Oscar…Sebastian O’Driscoll-Henderson
Harry…Thomas Birkett
Jade…Poppy Thody
Music composed by Jude Neanor
DWS Audio at the UK International Audio Drama Festival 2023
It’s still not too late to vote for Isabella Larena’s play ‘The Guy Who Called’ in the audience award category. Just go to the website below and follow the link to the voting page.
DWS Audio at the UK International Audio Drama Festival 2023
Once again the work of our students will feature at this year’s UK International Audio Drama Festival. ‘The Guy Who Called’ written by Isabella Larena will be showcased at the Eastbridge Hospital in Canterbury on Monday 27th March.
You can listen to the play here:
Detective #1…Isabella Larena
Detective #2…Jack Phillips
DWS Audio on BBC Radio Kent
A Grease Monkey and a Peacock
This week another new DWS Audio drama featured on Leo Ulph’s Upload show. ‘A Grease Monkey and a Peacock’ is an historical drama set in 1964 during the infamous Mods and Rockers clash on Brighton Beach.
Wanting to escape the fighting, seventeen-year-old Fletch takes refuge in a beach hut…
The play is broadcast in three parts and you can listen via the links below:
Upload on BBC Radio Kent – 13/03/2023 – BBC Sounds
Listen from 11.15 to 16.30
Upload on BBC Radio Kent – 14/03/2023 – BBC Sounds
Listen from 11.30 to 17.45
Upload on BBC Radio Kent – 16/03/2023 – BBC Sounds
Listen from 11.00 to 16.30
Fletch…Thomas Cridland
Rog…Conor Priestman
Sound design by Nathanael Chappell
Operation Disarm
by Ella Clarke
In a lawless, dystopian future, Detective Mara has to contend with many an unhinged psychopath. And today is no different – except that this one has a bomb…
Mara…Ella Clarke
Maniac…Iris Coleman
A Fruitful Murder
by Catherine Hayes & Amber Ranaldi
A 999 operator receives an unusual call from a terrified member of the public. Somewhere there’s a dangerous pineapple on the loose…
Operator…Catherine Hayes
Caller…Amber Ranaldi
Timmy…Olivia Stanton
Operator #2…Lilly Bennett
My Mother is a Murderer
written by Isabel Cruz Liljegren and recorded as part of ‘The Transmission’, a European audio drama festival for young people.
Darrick Wood was proud to be chosen as one of over thirty EU schools to record a play written by a professional European playwright and translated into English. You can listen to the play here. A dedicated website featuring all of the plays recorded will be launched soon.
Elijah…George Norris
Mother…Katie Blair
Emily…Jessica Blackburn
Directed by Katie Blair