From Fact to Fiction - Series 9 - Episode 8

The return of the award-winning series FROM FACT TO FICTION - in which writers create a fictional response to the week's news. This week poet Ian McMillan is in the hot seat. Producer - Gary Brown. To complement Radio 4's News and Current Affairs output, our weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major story from the week's news. The form and content is entirely led by the news topic so you can expect drama in a number of different guises, as well as poetry andf prose. Each week we broadcast a 15 minute stand-alone drama created from scratch in the days leading up to transmission. It's uniquely radio - an instant reaction to the mood of the moment - a concept impossible to imagine in any other medium. This breadth of approach is echoed in the range of writers that have participated so far. They include: David Edgar, Amelia Bullmore, Mark Lawson, Bonnie Greer, Laura Solon, Will Self, Alistair Beaton, Lemn Sissay, April de Angelis, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Adrian Mitchell, Stewart Lee, John Sergeant, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Kate Mosse, Lin Coghlan, Marina Warner, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti and A.L. Kennedy. FROM FACT TO FICTION presents writers with the opportunity to work in a bold and instinctive way as they respond to events in the news, beginning on a Monday when an idea is selected through to Friday when the programme is recorded and edited. The high-profile series also attracts big names from the acting profession. Philip Glenister, Tracy-Ann Obermann, Samuel West, David Soul, Henry Goodman, Alistair McGowan, Robert Bathurst, Stephen Mangan, Sally Hawkins and Kenneth Cranham.