Creative Writing - Audio

The Open University

The tracks on this album offer an invaluable insight into a wide range of techniques and practices surrounding Creative Writing. Writers as diverse as Alan Ayckbourn, Ian McMillan and Tanika Gupta talk openly about their approaches and attitudes to all aspects of writing from original concept to final drafts and productions. Writing for stage, print, television and radio is discussed in engaging and articulate detail. This material forms part of The Open University course A363 Advanced creative writing.

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34 episodes
Updated Nov 10, 2008

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Nov 10, 2008 · 8 min
The Mass Observation Archive
Dorothy Sheridan, director of the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex, talks about the archive in terms of a research tool and a repository of unique material.
Nov 10, 2008
Transcript -- The Mass Observation Archive
Transcript -- Dorothy Sheridan, director of the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex, talks about the archive in terms of a research tool and a repository of unique material.
Nov 10, 2008 · 8 min
Liz Jensen, Development and Decisions
Author Liz Jensen talks about her novels and how they develop in terms of storyline, plot, character and voice, How she often rejects planning in favour of a more organic approach to her work.
Nov 10, 2008
Transcript -- Liz Jensen, Development and Decisions
Transcript -- Author Liz Jensen talks about her novels and how they develop in terms of storyline, plot, character and voice, How she often rejects planning in favour of a more organic approach to her work.
Nov 10, 2008 · 10 min
Structure, Revision and Theme
Novelist Liz Jensen talks about narrative viewpoints, and their benefits and shortcomings in terms of storytelling.
Nov 10, 2008
Transcript -- Structure, Revision and Theme
Transcript -- Novelist Liz Jensen talks about narrative viewpoints, and their benefits and shortcomings in terms of storytelling.
Nov 10, 2008 · 5 min
Ian McMillan and Repetition
Poet and presenter Ian McMillan takes a light-hearted look at the use of repetition in his poems.
Nov 10, 2008
Transcript -- Ian McMillan and Repetition
Transcript -- Poet and presenter Ian McMillan takes a light-hearted look at the use of repetition in his poems.
Nov 10, 2008 · 11 min
Poetry and Surrealism
Ian McMillan talks about the importance and use of surrealism in his poetry.
Nov 10, 2008
Transcript -- Poetry and Surrealism
Transcript -- Ian McMillan talks about the importance and use of surrealism in his poetry.
Nov 10, 2008 · 7 min
Hilary Mantel on Film and Drama
Hilary Mantel talks about the importance and influence television and film have had on her development as a writer. The paragraph as the basic building block of fiction, and how this can generate a successful narrative.
Nov 10, 2008
Transcript -- Hilary Mantel on Film and Drama
Transcript -- Hilary Mantel talks about the importance and influence television and film have had on her development as a writer. The paragraph as the basic building block of fiction, and how this can generate a successful narrative.
Nov 10, 2008 · 11 min
Rhetoric and Rhythm
Hilary Mantel uses examples and a reading from her own novel Vacant Possession, to examine the use of rhetoric and rhythm, and how they can seed ideas in a reader and build up the relationship between reader and text.
Nov 10, 2008
Transcript -- Rhetoric and Rhythm
Transcript -- Hilary Mantel uses examples and a reading from her own novel Vacant Possession, to examine the use of rhetoric and rhythm, and how they can seed ideas in a reader and build up the relationship between reader and text.