LATEST: Scuttled – a full-cast audio drama in five episodes starring Christopher Eccleston and Joyce Branagh.
A full-cast, 5 episode audio drama following the Ashworths, a family living and working on the Rochdale Canal between 1840 and 1922. Inspired by the scuttled boats unearthed in Rochdale by real life archaeological excavations, and drawing on detailed research, this poignant and moving saga brings to life the lost world of Northern England’s bargees. Listen to all five episodes below.
ABOUT Ian Winterton
Ian worked as a film journalist, interviewing many big Hollywood names, before starting to write for theatre in 2009. His play, ‘Sherica’, was selected for the 2011 24:7 Manchester Theatre Festival where it won both Best Play and the Audience Choice Award. It was also selected for the Library Theatre’s Re:Play festival and won a prestigious Manchester Theatre Award.
‘Sherica’ also led to Ian being short-listed for the BBC’s Alfred Bradley Bursary Award and he is currently a member of BBC Writersroom’s Northern Writers Group. His stage adaptation of ‘The Best’, an unfilmed Jack Rosenthal screenplay about George Best, won a Manchester
Theatre Award in 2013. Other plays include ‘Wednesday’, ‘Big Sid’ – another Rosenthal adaptation – and ‘South’, the latter developed with the support of Arts Council England and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.
For the screen, Ian has several TV and film scripts in development with various production companies including BLURRED for Saffron-Cherry Productions.
He is a writer and editor at Cutaway Comics, and has written a variety of titles for the company including Demons of Eden, Sutekh and the forthcoming Drax: London Calling and Drax: LA Woman.
For Cutaway’s sister-company, VworpVworp – the world’s best Doctor Who fanzine, Ian wrote and directed A Meeting On The Common, an animated adaptation of the opening of the 1964 novel Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With The Daleks by David Whittaker. Available on disc with VworpVworp #6 – click here to see the trailer and buy the magazine.
In addition, Ian is host of Cutaway Comics’ The Bunker, a Dr Who interview podcast. Guests thus far include Robert Shearman, Stephen Gallagher, Stephen Wyatt and Gary Russell. Listen here.
The Bunker is producer by Bamalam Productions CIC, a company at which Ian is Associate Producer and Trustee. For Bamalam he has written and produced several audio dramas, including Cracking The Feathers (starring Robert Glenister and Julie Hesmondhalgh), All The Bens (starring Nathaniel Curtis) and, in partnership with the MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), Scuttled (starring Christopher Eccleston and Joyce Branagh).
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Ian continues to work as a freelance journalist – mainly on film – and has written for a wide variety of publications and websites including Empire, Hotdog, SFX, FilmFour, Musicweek, The North Guide, The Leeds Guide, The Big Issue and is a regular contributor to Video On Demand site VODzilla.co — his reviews and articles here.
Based in Cheshire, Ian also works as a visiting lecturer at the University of Chester, delivering modules on Scriptwriting and Film Studies.
He is represented by Madeleine Cotter at WGM Atlantic.