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Tydeman joined the BBC as a general trainee later in the year, working in various parts of the corporation, until he settled into the Radio Drama department. There he would cut his teeth on productions that would include many episodes of the popular radio soap,
362:"The truth of that particular story is that I was in the Drama Department, very fresh from university, on an attachment basis as a trainee and a very extraordinary fresh script arrived, which was about to be sent back ... It wasn't like anything else I’d read. It was called
370:, who was then Assistant Head of the radio drama department, and I said, 'I think it's remarkable, I think it's quite wrong that it should be sent back.' Donald read it and said, 'Yes, there's a talent here. Why don’t you see the young man'?"
359:, whom he was widely seen to have discovered. Tydeman saw his championing of Orton as more of a successful rescue from the rejection pile, as he recorded his memories for the BBC at the time of retirement as Head of Radio Drama in 1994.
430:"I said, I’ve done no such thing, Peggy. 'Yes, you have. A young man came to see and he said you said I was a cow. I may be a perfect bitch at times, but I’m not a cow. Darling, it’s absolutely brilliant. I’ve been on to
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Within four years. he would establish himself as one of the most dynamic new talents in radio drama, progressing through soap opera and the relentless demand for popular afternoon entertainment to the challenges of
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427:"About a week later the phone rang, and it was Peggy, and Peggy Ramsay and I had a very good relationship, and she said, 'What’s this, darling? You’ve been calling me a cow all around London'."
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after that first broadcast. Adrian's correspondence with a fictionalised version of
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After the script's journey through the radio drama department, Tydeman then guided it through three revisions, and when Orton came in to discuss the final draft, now called
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as Head of Radio Drama (HDR) in 1986. He retired from the BBC in 1994, but continued to produce radio plays as an independent.
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