Written In Air is currently accepting pitches for the following BBC Radio 4 strands:

🎨 ARTS 🎨
(🗓️DEADLINE: 23 Feb. 2025🗓️)

For one-off or multi-part (up to 3 episodes) arts focused documentaries and features. These could be about any of the following:

- Multi-part series or single documentaries on significant artistic figures, artistic movements or great work
- Artists and the contemporary world
- Arts Journalism
- Off-beat, quirky stories from the present and the past
- Discovering artistic figures who you think should be brought centre-stage
- Presenter-led guides to arts and music
- Anniversaries and partnerships
- Innovation and experiments

🎙️FACTUAL🎙️
For one-off or multi-part series for the following open categories:

One-offs
(🗓️DEADLINE: 14 Feb. 2025🗓️)
- Illuminated (28 minute feature docs)
- Archive on 4 (57 minute programmes)
- Investigations (42 minutes programmes)

Factual Series
(🗓️DEADLINE: 14 Feb. 2025🗓️)
- 14 minute series
- 42 minute series

Umbrella Podcasts
(🗓️DEADLINE: 23 Feb. 2025🗓️)
These are for narrative series ideas that fit under the following umbrellas:
-  Intrigue — dramatic true stories and investigations that reveal how the world really works
- The History Podcast — story-driven history in close-up, through the people who were there
- Shadow World — original narrative journalism that reveals something important about the UK today.

🎭 DRAMA 🎭

(🗓️DEADLINE: 14 Feb. 2025🗓️)
For one-off, 44 minute audio dramas (audio fiction for the Americans reading this). 

The commissioning briefs for each of these are linked above. You should have a look through them and familiarise yourself with the opportunity before submitting. 

Also, please note that there are different deadlines for the varying slots. 

Our company is committed to working with veteran audio producers, new audio makers and freelance journalists from other mediums who may not have audio experience (though we will pair you with a producer). 

NOTE: Due to the staggering deadlines this form will not close until 23 Feb. 2025, however, pitches must be submitted by 23:59 PST ob the deadline day for that category.

📻 Please send any questions you may have to info@writteninair.com 📻

⬇️ Pitches will only be accepted via the form below ⬇️