The Show What You Wrote
The Show What You Wrote is BBC Radio 4’s comedy sketch show - written by you.
Each episode is based around a different subject and it’s all written by you.
This is an opportunity for you to get involved in creating a show that sounds different from any other sketch show out there. The Show What You Wrote is open for anyone to enter, whatever your level of experience. If you have a good idea then write it up and send it to us.
The themes for each episode are:
1) Science and Nature
2) Geography
3) Art and Literature
4) Sport and Leisure
What We Are Looking For
These topics are there to help get you started but try and think differently about how you approach them - the first idea that springs to mind is something lots of people are likely to think of. We’re looking for sketches that use the topics in lots of different ways.
So a ‘Science and Nature’ sketch could be about plants, animals, microbes, ecosystems, insects, the human body, space, prehistoric life, evolution, medicine, experiments, the solar system, nutty professors, electricity, test tubes, mould… ‘Geography’ could involve sketches about explorers, oceans, travel, globalisation, mountains, countries, cultures, a sense of direction, school lessons, maps, astronomy, landscapes, agriculture, climate. Or lots of other things we haven’t mentioned.
You see what we’re getting at. Be imaginative! But remember to try and keep your sketches brief – the funniest sketches are no longer than three pages.
Please don’t resubmit any sketches that you sent in for the previous series, even if you think they might fit with these topics.
How It Works
When we receive your sketches, the producers will read all of the submissions. We will only contact you if your sketch is being considered for a recording. If it doesn’t get that far then I’m afraid you won’t get any detailed feedback.
Our favourites will be passed to our script editors, who will contact you individually with feedback and re-write suggestions. That email will confirm the final deadline for any re-written sketches to be sent back to us for consideration.
Any re-written sketches will then go through another script editing session, with the final cut of these making up the finished scripts.
It is possible that a re-written sketch may still not make the finished production recording.
You will be paid for any sketches you write that air on Radio 4. Payments go out at the end of the series - this means if you have sketches in different episodes, you’ll accumulate your fee and be paid a lump sum after the final transmission date.
How To Apply
