BBC Studios Audio – Staff Writer Role

BBC Studios Audio are looking for a staff writer on a part time basis (4 days a week) for an initial 6 months. Check out the below from their website:

Are you a new and developing Writer? Do you have a passion for both the Comedy world and writing comedy? Then this is the position for you.

This is an opportunity to join an Award-winning audio production team in BBC Studios. We specialise in making comedy, entertainment and comedy drama shows and podcasts. We champion the work of new and emerging talent as well as working with some of the all-time greats.

We make about 150 hours of radio and podcasts a year. For Radio 4 our shows include The News Quiz, Just a Minute, Mark Steel’s In Town, Sarah Keyworth: Are You a Boy or a Girl, Daliso Chaponda’s Citizen of Nowhere, Nature Table, Ellie Taylor’s Safe Space, Conversations from a Long Marriage, Dead Ringers, Darren Harriott: Red Label and many many more. Our podcasts for Spotify include Sorted with the Dyers and Rose and Rosie: Parental Guidance Spotify and Jacob Hawley: On Drugs, The Sink, Eddie Hearn: No Passion No Point, and Inside Inside no. 9 for BBC Sounds.

BBC Studios is a global production company that makes a range of much-loved programmes in Drama, Entertainment, Natural History, Factual and Comedy. Our TV titles include Blue Planet, Strictly Come Dancing, This Country, EastEnders, Inside No.9, Dr Who, Top Gear, Silent Witness and Luther. There is an opportunity to work closely with TV colleagues – after all this is the department that has over the years seen Little Britain, Miranda Hart’s Joke Shop, The League of Gentlemen and Ladhood make the transition from radio to TV!

To find out more about the role, responsibilities and contract visit their website here

Deadline to apply is 3rd January 2022.