Happy Christmas and New Year from the BBC Writers team! Get stuck into some reading over the break with a bumper batch of new scripts just added to our library.

Before television, before podcasts, there were radio plays produced by the BBC. The broadcaster transmitted their first play in 1924, which means they've been making radio plays for over 100 years now ...

The first-ever adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was for BBC Radio, and there was more than one. Many people remember the critically-acclaimed 1981 BBC Radio 4 version but there was ...

BBC Sounds has reported another record-breaking year with over 2.5 billion plays of radio, music and podcasts between January ...