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Ben Musgrave

@ben-musgrave.bsky.social
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Playwright, Lecturer in Scriptwriting, UEA. www.ben-musgrave.co.uk

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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Devastating announcement of job cuts at Ch4, coming so soon after the cuts to 500 jobs announced at the BBC this year We send solidarity to members of our sister unions who are impacted by this There's never been a more important time to protect our PSBs www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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Channel 4 to axe about 300 jobs in biggest layoffs in its history
Exclusive: Staff expect ‘brutal’ cutbacks as broadcaster seeks to reduce costs amid advertising slowdown
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Katherine Mendelsohn @katherinemend.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Deeply sad to see this news. The Gate was first theatre where I worked as Literary Manager, in its original Notting Hill home, from 1998-2000. We won a Peter Brook Empty Space award "for the range and quality of the programming". Great international home. www.thestage.co.uk/news/gate-th...
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Gate Theatre to close after almost 50 years amid ‘hand-to-mouth’ funding climate
The Gate Theatre in London is to close at the end of October after what it labelled ‘several years of survival in a precarious funding climate’
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
And here's a good q and a between me and Jake Smith about adapting Hartley's great novel for the Society of Authors: societyofauthors.org/2026/08/11/a...
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Adapting The Go-Between for stage  - The Society of Authors
An interview with playwright Ben Musgrave and director Jake Smith.
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
easternangles.co.uk/event/the-go... So - we opened Jake Smith 's extraordinary Eastern Angles Theatre Company production of my adaptation of L.P. Hartley's glorious THE GO-BETWEEN at the Food Museum on thursday. I'm really in love with this thing - do come and see it on tour till the 19th Sept.
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The Go-Between - Eastern Angles Theatre Company
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I'm utterly thrilled that following an @itc-arts.bsky.social R&D last year at Norwich Theatre Royal, my adaptation of L.P. Hartley's beloved, enchanted novel The Go-Between will be touring this Aug-Sept, produced by Eastern Angles and directed by Jake Smith. easternangles.co.uk/event/the-go...
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The Go-Between - Eastern Angles Theatre Company
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Please support this letter protesting the suspension of this vital contributor to New Writing. The role of MAs like this is unsung, but SO MANY brilliant writers (and Dramaturgs) began on the Goldsmith's MA (and FWIW my Bruntwood-winning play was my dissertation) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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An Open Letter Protesting the Suspension of the MA Dramaturgy & Writing for Performance Degree at Goldsmiths College (2001 - 2025)
An Open Letter from the alums of the MA Dramaturgy & Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College (2001 - 2025), supported by professionals of the international theatre and performance community who ...
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Congratulations @marthaloader.bsky.social on this immense achievement. The Town is a special play. We're very proud of you.
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Fantastic news, @marthaloader.bsky.social The Town is such a brilliant play (and best wishes to the everyone else on the shortlist too).
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Anna Jordan @annaruthjordan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.
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Samantha Ellis @samanthaellis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Still a few more hours to go!
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Orange Tree Theatre @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🍊✍️ Introducing our 2025 Writers’ Collective! We’re delighted to welcome Hassan Abdulrazzak, Azan Ahmed, Martha Watson Allpress, Catherine Dyson, Ben Weatherill, and for the first time, the Collective includes a translator, Lucy Phelps, in association with @bcltuea.bsky.social.
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Come and see the work in development of our amazing UEA Scriptwriters next week at the Garage in Norwich: ueascriptwritingma.substack.com
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UEA Scriptwriting MA public workshop 2025 | Substack
A two-day programme showcasing work from the 2025 graduates of the Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) MA at the University of East Anglia on 17/18 June at the Garage, Norwich. Click to read UEA Scriptwr...
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Come and work with us at UEA
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Touretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
A photo of Jess Thom, a white, wheelchair using woman looking into the camera with a serious expression. She is wearing a blue and green hoodie, black padded gloves and is pictured in from of a brick wall
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UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk
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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thursday is normally my first year introduction to archaeology class, which I absolutely love teaching, but instead i’ll be on the picket line with my UEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues, fighting compulsory redundancies. Please follow our branch account for more info!
The black and white flyer for UEA UCU strike action aimed at students. It has an image of the famous ziggurats and text saying save jobs, save UEA, and our working conditions are your learning conditions
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Samantha Ellis @samanthaellis.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Loved writing this for the Guardian about trying to pass on my Iraqi Jewish food heritage to my son. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
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‘Too sticky. Too saucy. Too weird’: could I persuade my son to eat the food of my heritage?
Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi J...
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Great evening! Can't wait to read it Samantha!
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Last night at the Audio Drama Awards, the BBC announced a 90-min monthly play slot on Radio 4 It follows campaigning by WGGB, sister unions + the audio drama community to #SaveAudioDrama Thanks to our members who joined the campaign Our response 🔽 writersguild.org.uk/bbc-announce...
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BBC announces monthly 90-minute play slot on Radio 4, following campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain
The BBC is launching a monthly 90-minute play slot starting later in the spring on BBC Radio 4, which will focus on new audio dramas and original adaptations of classic …
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UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📣UEA UCU Day of Action: Join us from 8am outside AHB on Weds 26th. 🚩We are striking for our colleagues at risk of redundancy. 🚩We are striking to protect the education of our students. 🚩We are striking for a better future for UEA. ✊Join us. #SaveUEA
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Really love this weeks Start The Week with @jallenpaisant.bsky.social @samanthaellis.bsky.social and Abdulrazak Gurnah, on food, soil, migration, and memory www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Start the Week - Abdulrazak Gurnah on family and resistance - BBC Sounds
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Samantha Ellis and Jason Allen-Paisant with Shahidha Bari.
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Clare has been a force of nature in the East and she will be sorely missed around here. I couldn't be more grateful to her for her support and friendship over the past few years. She and the whole @hightidetheatre.bsky.social team have been a dream to work with. The NT are lucky to have her!
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
An important piece in today’s Observer from Katie Hims on why cuts to audio drama are so damaging - to writers, audiences and the wider cultural ecosystem in the UK We continue to campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC #SADatTheBBC www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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BBC radio drama is in grave danger. Without it we may lose the next generation of writing talent
Hundreds of hours of original plays have been cut from the corporation’s programming in recent years. If the trend continues, a valuable training ground for writers will be lost
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Sickening and wicked provocation. Normalizing ethnic cleansing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit
President’s plan, which critics said was ‘ethnic cleansing by another name’, would involve the permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Geneva Convention (which the US has ratified) forbids the permanent and forcible removal of citizens from their homes.
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
And Komola Collective's beautiful production and tour of my play INDIGO GIANT: www.komola.co.uk/indigogiant - nominated for an #Offies award for best new play.
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Some things from 2024... A wonderful R&D working on my @artscouncilengland.bsky.social- funded adaptation of LP Hartley's exquisite THE GO-BETWEEN with Eastern Angles, Norwich Theatre Royal, St George's Great Yarmouth and @karengoddard.bsky.social norwichtheatre.org/whats-on/wor...
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Work-in-Progress: The Go Between | Norwich Theatre
Join us in Stage Two as we support the development of new work by local artists, and help shape the theatre of tomorrow.
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Dipping my toe in the BlueSky... Hello.
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