B7 Media is multi award-winning UK indie with an international track record in developing and producing content and formats for radio (BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra, Audible), theatre, film and television (SKY, BBC, , UKTV, SPACE, Eastlink TV and Syfy Channel).
B7 Media’s output ranges from the popular indie film romance Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)[1] starring Joan Plowright, Anna Massey, Zoe Tapper and Rupert Friend; to a range of audio dramas with a distinctly cinematic edge (I Robot, Dan Dare, Unsinkable), produced for Audible, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra. Other film credits include a long-time collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Paul Kimball, The Cuckoo in the Clock (2014), mystery thriller Roundabout (2014), the multi-award winning noir thriller Exit Thread (2016)[2] and and their latest collaboration The Colour of Spring (2021).
Notable audio dramas for BBC Radio 4 include: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (2014)[3] starring Derek Jacobi and Hayley Attwell, cult BBC sci-fi series Blake’s 7 (2007-10) starring Derek Riddell, Colin Salmon and Daniela Nardini, the critically acclaimed series Dan Dare (2016-17)[4], inspired by the 1950s Eagle comic, starring Ed Stoppard, Geoff McGivern, Raad Rawi and Heida Reed, and the multi-award-winning dramatisation of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot (2017)[5] starring Hermione Norris and Brendan Coyle.
B7 also produces highly topical drama including the adaptation of Sumia Sukkar’s debut novel The Boy from Aleppo who Painted the War (2014) and most recently the legal drama Barred (2021) starring Kerri McLean, Susannah Harker and Andrew Lancel – both for BBC Radio 4. Other audio drama credits include for Audible the docudrama series revealing the untold story of The Space Race (2019)[6] narrated by Kate Mulgrew and psychological thriller, The Effect (2021) starring Juliet Aubrey.
Current projects include an original graphic novel based on the upcoming audio sci-fi thriller, Pilgrim (2022); a podcast drama series for AUK Studios based on Robin Evans’ graphic novel trilogy Venna’s Planet (2021), and UK producer on the audio movie Unsinkable (2022), starring Brian Cox, John Malkovich, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Nathalie Emmanuel and based on the true story of the San Demetrio, one of the most extraordinary tales of heroism and seamanship of the Second World War.
In the world of theatre, B7 Media produced Sonnet 155; an event fusing music and drama staged at the internationally renowned Almeida Theatre. Structured around Tim Arnold’s concept album of the same name, the event featured Shakespeare readings and performances by Richard Briers (his last stage performance), Benedict Cumberbatch, Hattie Morahan, Paul McGann and Lisa Dillon.
B7’s factual credits include Haunted for UKTV (shortlisted for the Montreux e-Rose); documentaries Secrets of the Paranormal (UKTV), Famous Monster (biography about Forrest J Ackerman), Barcelona Burnout (ITV, Men & Motors), Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings (SPACE), Echoes of the Past (UK History) and The Space Race (a co-production with science and arts documentary production company Boffin Media for Audible/Amazon).
Current projects include a period television drama series Marriage Bureau created by Richard Kurti (Going Postal, Sherlock Holmes & The Baker Street Irregulars) and the Producers are Andrew Mark Sewell (Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Exit Thread), Laura Rista (Lovelace and Oscar nominated, Margin Call) and Bronwyn Cornelius (Widow’s Walk) whose latest film Clemency won the Sundance Film Festival (2019) U.S. Grand Jury Prize.
[1] Winner: ‘Best Narrative Feature’, Palm Springs International Film Festival (2006).
[2] Winner: 23 International Festival Awards including ‘Best Feature Film’, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards (2016); Grand Jury Prize ‘Best Film’, Colorado Film Festival; ‘Best Director’ (Paul Kimball), International Independent Film Awards (2016); ‘Best Actress’ (Hilary Connell), Trinity International Film Festival (2016).
[3] Winner: ‘Best Drama Special’ (Silver) at the NYC International Radio Program Awards (2015).
[4] Winner: ‘Best Digital Drama Program’ (Gold/2018); ‘Best Online Drama Program’ and ‘Best Director’ (Silver/2017) at the NYC International Radio Program Awards.
[5] Winner: ‘Best Director’ (Gold) and ‘Best Drama Special’ (Silver) at the NYC International Radio Program Awards (2017).
[6] Winner: ‘Best Documentary: Space & Technology’ (Gold) New York Festivals® Radio Awards (2020). Finalist: Arthur C. Clarke Award ‘Space Achievement: Media – Broadcast and Written’ (2019).
In 2019, B7 Media launched an audiobook division, working with up and coming and independent authors, established publishers and producing collections of out of copyright work.
Audiobook releases include;
Victorian Anthologies, featuring curated volumes of ghosts, horror and gothic romance by well- known authors and some whose stories have never been recorded for audio before.
Crime author Pauline Rowson’s 1950s crime series The Inspector Ryga Mysteries (Death in the Cove and Death in the Harbour); Richard Lieberman’s science thriller Bad Seed; Sam Meekings The Afterlives of Doctor Gachet – a dramatised history of the man in Van Gogh’s famous painting; Jools Berry’s metaphysical romcom Ray’s Game.
Biographies include Roger Federer: Portrait of an Artist – Chris Jackson’s new thoughtful and brilliantly written study of Federer as a man, player and aesthetic and moral figure of our times; Tim Pilcher’s Comic Book Babylon the uncensored and utterly unofficial of story of DC Comic’s infamous Vertigo UK office; In the Nick of Time the story of EastEnders iconic baddie, John Altman and Marriage Bureau – Mary Oliver’s frank, funny and inspiring account of a 1940s matchmaking business, revived for a modern generation.
Future projects being developed include erotica, murder mystery and romantic fiction.
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