Lucy has been writing plays since 1986. Many of her stage plays have been professionally performed and she was a finalist for both the John Whiting Award and BBC Wales Writer of the Year Award (1994) with her play Crossing The Bar. This play has been translated into Croatian and was Broadcast on Croatian National Radio on the 19th March 2001.
Her first BBC broadcast was in 1994 with Our Lady of Shadows (BBC Radio 3). Since then she has a play of the week on the BBC World Service and has had five plays on BBC Radio 4; Head, The Red Room, The Mermaids Tail and Judith beheading Holofernes and The Raft. Her Radio dramatisation of Wuthering Heights for BBC Radio 4 was broadcast as the classic serial in Woman's Hour at in July 2003. Mapping the Soul was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005.
Lucy can be contacted by e-mail lucy.gough@care4free.net
The radio plays of Lucy Gough need to exist beyond an individual broadcast. They need to be recorded, repeated, revived, disseminated, discussed, analyzed, documented, published and re-recorded. Any form of creative writing that is distinctive, innovative, challenging, imaginative, engaging and inspiring deserves to be circulated widely and preserved. The writers of radio plays are automatically denied applause or any other display of appreciation. It is very fortunate for those members of the radio audience who appreciate good radio drama that there are writers like Lucy Gough who love writing for the medium so much that they are prepared to continue with so little reward.
Dr Martin Shingler Sunderland University
