Fresh storytelling from first time writers and producers as part of BBC Introducing Arts supported by BBC Arts and Arts Council England.

BBC Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones presents two thought-provoking short dramas from the next generation of dramatists.

Consumer Luxuries by Alice Wilson.

Pip makes daydreams for other people, and she hates it. Overworked and underpaid, she starts trying to improve her life, but she immediately comes under threat from her manager, and faces an ultimatum.

Featuring the voices of Sophie Cottle, Marc Danbury, Saskia Portway and Lucy Tuck.
Music and Sound Design: Andy Jenks
Producers: Anna Campbell and Paul Dodgson
A Rural Media Production

Apocalypse Meow by Bradley Brown

Humanity has been extinct for the last 3000 years. The Earth is now ruled by Animals.
After waking up from a deep slumber, a man named Alex is greeted by a mysterious figure named Doc, who tells him he is the first human to be brought back from the dead, and they need him to advance their technology to the next level. But Alex is not the expert they thought he would be. Now faced with dangerous enemies that want him dead, Alex must escape for his life before the inhabitants of this dystopian new world get their hands on him in this comical sci-fi adventure.

Graeme Hawley is best known for Coronation Street (2016), Peaky Blinders (2013) and England Is Mine (2017).
Bradley was born in 1992 in Oldham, Manchester, England. He is an Animator and Voice Actor who works at ABF Pictures.

A Tyneside Cinema/Naked Productions collaboration for New Creatives.

New Creatives Dramas is presented by Rebecca Jones

Producer Paul Dodgson

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