Sebastian Baczkiewicz
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Sebastian Baczkiewicz (born 1962, Hammersmith, London) is an English writer.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
Biography
As a teenager, Baczkiewicz was a member of Questors Theatre in West London before training as an actor at The Drama Centre.{{cite web |last1=Willey |first1=Omar |title=The Ghastly Impermanence: An Interview with Sebastian Bączkiewicz |url=https://www.seattlestar.net/2013/03/the-ghastly-impermanence-an-interview-with-sebastian-baczkiewicz/ |website=The Seattle Star |date=12 March 2013 |accessdate=30 August 2019}} He was the BBC's first writer in residence in 2000.
Work
Author of a number of episodes of Holby City, Baczkiewicz has written a range of plays for BBC Radio including adaptations of Les Miserables and The Count of Monte Cristo and nine series of Pilgrim,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072sb6l|title = BBC Radio 4 – Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, Series 7}} starring Paul Hilton as William Palmer, the immortal title character.
His stage plays include The Lives of the Saints, Hello Paris, The Man Who Shot the Tiger and Dancing under the Bridge.{{cite web|title=Sebastian Baczkiewicz Radio Plays|url=http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/sbaczkiewicz.html|work=Suttonelms.org.uk|accessdate=20 December 2012}}
In 2004, he wrote half of a six-part series, Arthur,{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 Extra – Arthur |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b068sfwx |publisher=BBC |accessdate=28 January 2020}} for BBC Radio 4 using characters from Arthurian legend.
In 2012, his radio drama Pilgrim was nominated for the Prix Italia and awarded silver at the Prix Europa.
Baczkiewicz was lead writer on Radio 4's Home Front, a radio drama series broadcast across the centenary of the First World War, in 14 series, from 2014 to 2018, and in which William Palmer makes a brief one-word appearance.{{cite web | url=https://scifibulletin.com/books/audiobooks/pilgrim-interview-sebastian-baczkiewicz/ | title=Pilgrim: Interview: Sebastian Baczkiewicz | date=26 February 2016 }}
Ghosts of Heathrow, with Paul McGann was broadcast in 2014. Recorded on location, An Angel in Miami and Elsinor were broadcast on Radio 4 in 2019.
References
External links
- [http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/p/pi/pilgrim.html Radio Listings (Pilgrim)]
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Category:English television writers
Category:English fantasy writers
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