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Writers' Guild of Great Britain

Index Writers' Guild of Great Britain

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers. [1]

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

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Alan Plater

Alan Frederick Plater CBE FRSL (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s.

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Alan Sapper

Alan Sapper (18 March 1931 – 19 May 2006) was a British trade unionist.

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Albert Speer (play)

Albert Speer was a 2000 play by the British playwright David Edgar on the life of the Nazi-era architect Albert Speer, based on the book Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny.

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Albie Sachs

Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs (born 30 January 1935) is an activist and a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

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Anthony Read

Anthony "Tony" Read (21 April 1935 – 21 November 2015) was a British script editor, television writer and author.

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Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society

The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a British organisation that works to ensure that writers are fairly compensated for any of their works that are copied, broadcast or recorded.

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BBC Audio Drama Awards

The BBC Audio Drama Awards is an awards ceremony created by BBC Radio to recognise excellence in the radio industry, in particular in audio dramas.

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BBC Charter

The BBC Charter established the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).

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BBC Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927).

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Behzti

Behzti (in Punjabi, from Urdu/Hindi बेज़्ज़ती Dishonour) is a play written by the British Sikh playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti.

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Bryan Forbes

Bryan Forbes CBE (born John Theobald Clarke; 22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist, described as a "Renaissance man"Falk Q..

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Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom

The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom is a UK pressure group, based in London.

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David Edgar (playwright)

David Edgar (born 26 February 1948) is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain.

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David Nobbs

David Gordon Nobbs (13 March 1935 – 8 August 2015, The Guardian, 11 September 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.) was an English comedy writer, best known for writing the 1970s series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels.

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Denis Norden

Denis Mostyn Norden, (born 6 February 1922) is a retired English comedy writer and television presenter.

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Equity (British trade union)

Equity, formerly officially titled the British Actors' Equity Association (although Equity was always its common name), is the trade union for actors, stage managers and models in the United Kingdom.

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Federation of Entertainment Unions

The Federation of Entertainment Unions (FEU) is a joint representative body based in the United Kingdom, representing workers in TV, theatre, film, music, gaming, cinema, publishing, new media, professional football and other performing arts.

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Gitta Sereny

Gitta Sereny, CBE (13 March 192114 June 2012) was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who came to be known for her interviews and profiles of controversial figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp.

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Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti (born Watford) is a British Sikh writer.

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Ian Curteis

Ian Bayley Curteis (born 1 May 1935) is a British dramatist and former television director.

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International Affiliation of Writers Guilds

The International Affiliation of Writers Guilds is an international trade union federation representing guilds of professional screenwriters and playwrights.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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J. C. Wilsher

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Jimmy Perry

James Perry, OBE (20 September 1923 – 23 October 2016) was an English actor and scriptwriter, best known for devising and co-writing the BBC sitcoms Dad's Army (1968–1977), It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981), Hi-De-Hi (1980–1988) and You Rang M'Lord? (1988–1993), all with David Croft.

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Maureen Duffy

Maureen Patricia Duffy (born 21 October 1933) is a British poet, playwright, novelist and non-fiction author.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library.

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Multimedia

Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.

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Musicians' Union (United Kingdom)

The Musicians' Union (MU) is an organisation which represents over 30,000 musicians working in all sectors of the British music business.

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Olivia Hetreed

Olivia Hetreed is a British screenwriter and editor, and the current president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.

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Rosemary Anne Sisson

Rosemary Anne Sisson (13 October 1923 – 28 July 2017) was an English television dramatist and novelist.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Society of Authors

The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors.

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Ted Willis, Baron Willis

Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis (13 January 1914 - 22 December 1992) was a British playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play)

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is an 8½ hour-long adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel, performed in two parts.

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Tinniswood Award

The Tinniswood Award is a British annual award for original radio drama.

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Toby Hadoke

Toby Hadoke (born 2 January 1974) is an English actor, writer and stand-up comedian.

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Trades Union Congress

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, representing the majority of trade unions.

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UK Theatre

UK Theatre (formerly the Theatrical Management Association) was founded in 1894 as the Theatrical Managers Association, with Sir Henry Irving as its first president.

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Wally K. Daly

Wally K. Daly (born 13 November 1940 in Grangetown, Middlesbrough) is an English writer for television and radio and one-time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.

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Writers Guild of America

The Writers Guild of America is the joint efforts of two different US labor unions representing TV and film writers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers'_Guild_of_Great_Britain

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