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Sep 2017
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Inside the Writersroom with Jack Thorne

BBC Radio
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Join the UK's leading television drama writers, including Jed Mercurio and Sally Wainwright, as they lay bare their writing habits, habitats and career paths for the BBC's Abigail Gonda. A series of up close and personal interviews with the UK’s most brilliant writing talent inside the room where each of these writers actually writes.

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