Atching Tan: A Gypsy Wife is currently the drama of the week download and can be accessed at https://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ptw.
The BBC blog is: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/posts/Atching-Tan-A-Gypsy-Wife
There is also a promo on the BBC Writersroom homepage & it’s been tweeted about at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/

‘ATCHING TAN: A Gypsy Wife, is one of the picks of the week in both the Observer On Sunday and The Sunday Telegraph’

ATCHING TAN: A Gypsy Wife is on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 26th July at 2.15pm. The play will also be the BBC download of the week. Colorful and authentic drama set around the goings-on of Long Summer Traveller Site. When young couple Charity and Sol arrive on the site, their new neighbours Lovvie and Nelius are forced to make some difficult decisions when they discover Sol’s dark secret. Starring Candis Nergarrd and written by Traveller Dan Allum. In 2011, Dan Allum’s first Radio 4 play Atching Tan was shortlisted for the BBC Imison Award for Best Play by a New Writer and Candis Nergaard was shortlisted for Best Actress for the BBC Audio Drama Award.

A Gypsy Wife features 3 regular Romany Theatre Company performers – Candis Nergaard, Damian Le Bas and Patricia Keegan alongside new Traveller actress, Sian Willett. The 5th member of the cast is Danny Dalton currently appearing in the National Theatre’s production of War Horse.

A Gypsy Wife BBC link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01l1dkp

Romany Theatre Company’s Atching Tan Radio Drama was recognised at the first ever BBC Audio Drama Awards held on 29th January 2012. The BBC’s first ever Audio Drama Awards were held at a special ceremony hosted by actor David Tennant in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House, London. Dan Allum, writer of Atching Tan was nominated for the Imison Award for Best Radio Drama Script and Candice Nergaard who played Luvvie in the play was nominated for Best Actess in an Audio Drama.
The winners of the awards for Best Acress award and Imison award for Best Radio Drama Script are as follows:-
• Best Actress in an Audio Drama: Rosie Cavaliero, Lost Property: A Telegram From The Queen by Katie Hims
Producer: Jessica Dromgoole, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
• Best Actress in an Audio Drama – RUNNERS UP:
– June Whitfield, A Monstrous Vitality by Andy Merriman
Producer: David Hunter, BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
– Candis Nergaard, Atching Tan by Dan Allum
Producer: Charlotte Riches, BBC Audio Drama North for Radio 4
The winner of the Imison Award for Best Radio Drama Script broadcast in 2010 by a new writer is: Amazing Grace by Michelle Lipton
Award presented by: David Edgar
Judges: Society of Author’s Broadcasting Committee: Alison Joseph, Mike Bartlett, Lucy Caldwell, Nazrin Choudhury, Christopher William Hill, Karen Liebreich, Sue Limb, Karl Sabbagh, Colin Teevan and John Taylor)
Imison Award for Best Radio Drama Script – RUNNERS UP:
– Atching Tan by Dan Allum
– The Pursuit by Matt Hartley
– The Barber and the Ark by Marcia Layne
To see the full list of awards, winners and runners up go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/290112-bbc-audio-drama-awards.html
Congratulations to both Dan and Candice for their nomination.