Following the success of our collaboration with Tricolore Theatre Company and the Catholic Association of Performing Arts, we are pleased to bring listeners more dramatised stories from local writers and performers. Tune in to hear the stories live on the radio! Podcasts of the programmes will be updated after the initial broadcasts. 7. ABANDONED by KATE GLOVERBroadcast: Tuesday 30th April 2024About the Writer: Kate Glover, actress, playwright and director, started her career in secondary schools as a teacher of history, up to  A-level and beyond.  She also worked extensively in Sierra Leone, France, Italy and Tbilisi, Georgia teaching English for business as well as for academic purposes.   On her return to England, she did a postgraduate one year diploma in Drama.    A writing collaboration with another actress (to get her Equity card) persuaded her to start writing seriously.  To date, she has written a dozen full length plays (most of which have been produced), and many shorter pieces.   She founded Historia Theatre Company (Reg’d Charity 1099807) to stage plays that have their source in or inspiration from history.   Readers: TERESA JENNINGS, KENNETH MICHAELS, NADIA OSTACCHINI About the readers: JONATHAN COOTEAn actor for many years on stage, screen and radio, Jonathan’s favourite roles have included Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac, Bosola in The Duchess of Malfi and Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. His West End appearances include Yes, Prime Minister, The Audience, Witness for the Prosecution. At the National Theatre he has appeared in The Doctor’s Dilemma, Home, Emil and the Detectives, Our Country’s Good, As You Like It. When theatres re-opened after lockdown, he toured a one-man play called The Man with the Golden Pen as James Bond author, Ian Fleming. An immersive audio recreation of an 18th Century Chocolate House which he wrote and produced is currently running at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Television appearances include: Stephen, The Crown, Casualty.. Radio/Audio: Publish and Be Damn’d (BBC) Six Degrees of Assassination (Audible), The Diary Of River Song (Big Finish) and numerous audio books.  KENNETH MICHAELSKenneth Michaels is an actor and director and has worked in theatre, radio, television and film and has taught in several drama schools. As an actor he has toured extensively in the UK and Europe in works from Shakespeare to pantomime, Pinter to Agatha Christie.  Kenneth works as a specialist ESOL teacher, working with refugees supporting their English learning. He is also the Secretary of the Catholic Association of Performing Arts (CaAPA).  NADIA OSTACCHININadia is an actor, theatre producer, voice over artist, secretary & carer! She was born inLondon of Italian parentage, trained as an actor and is the Artistic Director of Tricolore Theatre Company whose first dual-language English/Italian storybook based on Jesus’s parables was published last year.  She has enjoyed Tricolore’s collaboration with Radio Maria for Eastertide Stories as well as Advent Adventures last year & looks forward to reading: ‘A Boy Called Porro’ to Radio Maria’s younger listeners over the radio this Christmas. Website: www.tricolore.org.uk