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'Claire Grove (3 January 1953 – 18 November 2013) was a theatre director, dramaturg, and senior drama producer and director for BBC radio and television for twenty-one years from 1990 – 2011.

She directed Sir Ian McKellen in Walter Now, Simon Russell Beale in Tom Jones for Radio 4 and Kwame Kwei-Armah in To Sir with Love.

She won two Sony Gold Awards for a Woman in Waiting by Thembi Mtshali and a Matter of Sex by Nick Stafford.[1][2][3]

Radio Plays

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Radio Plays Directed or Produced by Claire Grove
Date first broadcast Play Author Cast Synopsis
Awards 		Station
Series
3 August 1994 A Grove of Straight Trees[4] Nick Warburton Gavin Muir, Richard Pearce, Don McCokindale, Susannah Corbett, Elaine Claxton and Tom Bevan The owner of a large estate wants wood for his buildings, but his workforce will not set foot in the sacred grove.

Short-listed for the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award

BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
3 March 1996 A Raisin in the Sun[5] Lorraine Hansberry Claire Benedict, Ray Shell, Pat Bowie, Lachelle Carl, Garren Givens, Akim Mogaji, Ray Fearon, John Sharion and Dean Hill When this play opened on Broadway in 1959, it made the playwright an instant celebrity. It was the first serious work by an African American to hit the mainstream.

The Younger family live in Chicago's Southside. They dream of a better life and are about to come into money. Some of their dreams can be realised, but not all.

BBC Radio 3 The Sunday Play
15 October 2001 – 9 November 2001 Mary Barton[6] Elizabeth Gaskell dramatised by Lavinia Murray David Calder, Emma Rydal, Lynne Verrall, Paul Copley, Natasha Pyne, Ian Dunn, Kate Rutter, Sean Baker, Teresa Gallagher, Roy Hudd, Marlene Sidaway, Janice Acquah, Justin Butcher, Fiona Clarke, Simon Trinder, Carolyn Pickles, Phillip Joseph, Beth Chalmers and Deborah Berlin Elizabeth Gaskell's frank portrayal of Manchester life in the 1840s created shock waves when it was published and established her reputation. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
18 February 2002 Five Beats to the Bar[7] Neil d'Souza Claire Skinner, Daniel Ben-Zenou, Siddiqua Akhtar, Sandra Clark and Gerard McDermott In this contemporary love story framed by jazz, a barrister risks her career and her marriage while defending an asylum seeker on a robbery charge. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
20 December 2002 The Man on the Pillar[8] Justin Butcher Tom Smith, Paul Bhattacharjee, Burt Caesar, Andrew Harrison, Jamie Bower and Illona Unthwatte Simeon Stylites, preacher and healer, spent 30 years living on a pillar.

This play explores the exotic world of visions and miracles.

BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
5 September 2003 The Sound of Solitary Waves[9] Charlotte Jones Toby Jones, Shaun Parkes, Claire Rushbrook, Ben Crowe, Jemma Churchill and Lheng Au Does a solitary wave really exist? Or does each breaking wave contain within its sound the echo of the last wave and the promise of the next? BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
1 February 2004 Measure for Measure[10][11] William Shakespeare
Composer: Helen Chadwick 		Chiwetel Ejiofor, Clive Swift, Anton Lesser, Nadine Marshall, Claire Benedict, Ewan Bailey, Lloyd Hutchinson, Jude Akuwudike, Colin McFarlane and Adjoa Andoh In a world of sexual harassment and unwed mothers – and the inability of the law to deal with either – the Duke hands over his powers to his puritan deputy. BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
9 April 2004 The Rainbow Nation – Gogo and Big Sister[12] Thembi Mtshali Thembi Mtshali, Zolanl Mohola, Mandlsa Bardlll, Andrea Dondolo and Ayanda Tini Marking the tenth anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa.

Gogo (Granny) is a Zulu traditionalist. Her graduate granddaughter has Western values and a white lover. Twelve-year-old Kwezi is caught between them.

BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
16 April 2004 The Rainbow Nation – Taxi[13] Sibusiso Mamba Sello Maakeka-Ncube, Sibusiso Mamba, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Mark Faith, Don McCorkindale and Noma Dumezweni A Johannesburg taxi driver is charged with negligent driving and possible murder.

The second of three plays marking the tenth anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa.

BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
23 April 2004 The Rainbow Nation – Banana Republic[14] Greig Coetzee Tracy-Ann Oberman, Mark Faith, Greig Coetzee, Don McCorkindale and Slbuslso Mamba Robbie is a self-employed mechanic who has the dress-code and table manners of Crocodile Dundee. To a young couple from the city, he appears to be a dinosaur from the old South Africa, but there's more to Robbie than meets the eye.

The last in a series marking the 10th anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa.

BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
7 August 2005 – 14 August 2005 Oblomov[15] Ivan Goncharov dramatised by Stephen Wyatt Toby Jones, Trevor Peacock, Claire Skinner, Clive Swift, Gerard McDermott, Nicholas Boulton, Richenda Carey, Fiona Clarke and Harry Myers

Singer: Olivia Robinson
Pianist: Helen Crayford

Gentle, intelligent Oblomov completely fails to deal with life. Never doing today what he can put off till tomorrow, he is a tragicomic hero for a couch-potato generation. BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
7 March 2007 Time Breathes[16] Rhiannon Tise Claire Rushbrook, Michael Obiora, Noma Dumezweni, Sam Dale and Rachel Bavidge Insomnia can affect anyone. Gemma is in love with a man who never calls her. Teenager Kris is losing touch with his mates. Their stories are intercut with advice from a sleep expert, Dr Adrian Williams from Guys and St Thomas' Hospital, London. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
26 August 2007 – 2 September 2007 To Sir with Love[17][18] ER Braithwaite dramatised by Roy Williams Kwame Kwei-Armah and Steven Webb BBC Radio 4
29 October 2008 Love Contract[19] Mike Bartlett Claire Rushbrook and Ellie Haddington Emma battles to hang on to her dignity in a series of increasingly bizarre interviews with her manager. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
6 September 2009 – 13 September 2009 The A to Z of Dr Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson[20][21] James Boswell Dramatised by Robin Brooks Kenneth Cranham, Paul Higgins, David Hargreaves, Lizzy Watts, Matt Addis, Stephen Hogan, Annabelle Dowler, Susan Jameson and Philip Fox "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." Celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Johnson, poet, lexicographer and king of Grub Street. Young Boswell comes to London to seek out his hero, with the aim of writing a biography "in scenes" with Johnson's conversation cast as dialogue. Nothing quite like this had ever been attempted before. BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
20 December 2009 – 27 December 2009 Matilda[22][23] Roald Dahl dramatised by Charlotte Jones Lenny Henry, Lauren Mote, Nichola McAuliffe, Claire Rushbrook, Emerald O'Hanrahan, Kate Layden, Ryan Watson, Joshua Swinney, Rhys Jennings, Sinead Michael, Lizzy Watts, Bertie Gilbert and John Biggins Matilda is one of Roald Dahl 's finest creations – a cool, calm, five-year-old pint-size genius.

Matilda is determined to save the school and her favourite teacher, Miss Honey, from the vicious grip of its terrifying head Miss Trunchbull.

BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
30 May 2011 Corrinne Come Back and Gone[24] Lenny Henry Claire Benedict, Dona Croll, Nadine Marshall, Clare Perkins, Petra Letang, Alex Lanipekun and Leah Ocran Corrinne Jackson gets a letter from her daughter inviting her to return to Jamaica after twenty years. Her husband is dead. Twenty years earlier she fled to the UK leaving her children behind. Now there's a chance to set things right. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
5 September 2011 – 9 September 2011 The Core Mike Bartlett Juliet Stevenson and Alex Tregear Carly is a bright thirteen year old who goes to the Coalforth School in Berkshire.

The school has not being doing well, but it has just recruited Sarah Parkinson, a new head with energy and vision.

Exploring the hot topic of education The Core is about the impact of current policies on those going through the system.

We follow Carly and Sarah into the future and it's not what we, or they, expect.

BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama

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Theatre

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Stage Plays Directed by Claire Grove
Date Title Author Cast Synopsis Theatre Company Notes

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  • writing a book with Stephen Wyatt about writing radio drama Tweet

So You Want to Write Radio Drama? By Claire Grove and Stephen Wyatt[25]

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References

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  1. ^ Obituary – Jonquil Panting and Maxine Irving - BBC Ariel
  2. ^ Claire Grove Obituary – Michael Quinn, The Stage, 14 January 2014
  3. ^ A workshop for budding writers run by Mike Bartlett and Claire Grove – BBC
  4. ^ A Grove of Straight Trees
  5. ^ A Raisin in the Sun
  6. ^ Mary Barton
  7. ^ Five Beats to the Bar
  8. ^ The Man on the Pillar
  9. ^ The Sound of Solitary Waves
  10. ^ Measure for Measure
  11. ^ [1]
  12. ^ The Rainbow Nation – Gogo and Big Sister
  13. ^ The Rainbow Nation – Taxi
  14. ^ The Rainbow Nation – Banana Republic
  15. ^ Oblomov
  16. ^ Time Breathes
  17. ^ BBC – To Sir with Love
  18. ^ Radio Drama reviews Online - To Sir with Love by E. R. Braithwaite, adapted by Roy Williams, BBC Radio 4 Extra, 18-19 May 2011.
  19. ^ Love Contract
  20. ^ BBC – Classic Serial – Boswell's Life of Johnson
  21. ^ BBC – Classic Serial – Boswell's Life of Johnson
  22. ^ BBC – Classic Serial – Matilda
  23. ^ [ BBC – Classic Serial – Matilda]
  24. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Corrinne Come Back and Gone
  25. ^ Books for winter evenings – Susan Elkin, The Stage, 2 January 2014
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