Katie Hims is a British writer who works extensively in radio drama[1]. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, she began her career by writing theatre plays were were produced in Manchester, Bristol, and London. She was the BBC writer in residence from 2001-2002[2] and has also written several episodes of the TV series Casualty[3].
Her first radio play The Earthquake Girl won the Richard Imison Memorial Award in 1998. The Gunshot Wedding won the Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Drama in 2009, and The Year My Mother Went Missing won a BBC Audio Drama Award in 2012 for Best Audio Drama.
Biography[]
Radio Plays[]
- The Earthquake Girl (1997)
- Roberto Sultana (1998)
- Bangers and Mash (1999)
- Lulu (2000)
- Child of the Suburbs: Milton and Sylvio's Story (2000)
- Tuesday is Library Day (2001)
- Cops and Robbers (2001)
- Lila (2001)
- The Magpie Stories (2002)
- Man with a Travel Hairdryer (2002)
- Football Stories for Girls (2002)
- Wild Lunch (2003)
- The Disappearance of Shirley McGill (2003)
- The Day We Caught the Train (2003)
- Life with Lisa (2003)
- Lessons in Psychic Awareness (2003)
- Black Beauty (2004)
- Animal Show (2005)
- The Story of the Stone (2006)
- SOS (2006)
- The Gunshot Wedding (2006)
- Call Waiting (2006)
- A Room of Her Own (2006)
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2007)
- Angel (2007)
- Phaethon (2008)
- The Cool Bag Baby (2008)
- Life of Penguins (2008)
- The Kiss (2008)
- A Thousand Times (2008)
- The Gulf (2008)
- The View from Here (2009)
- Six Degrees of Separation (2009)
- Wake (2009)
- Five Wedding Dresses (2009)
- Emil and the Detectives (2009)
- Chocolate (2009)
- A Small Piece of Silence (2010)
- Betsy Coleman (2010)
- All the Blood in My Veins (2010)
- The Wrong Label (2011)
- The Year My Mother Went Missing (2011)
- A Telegram from the Queen (2011)