What Guild members are getting up to

SARAH BAGSHAW wrote the episodes of Emmerdale going out on ITV1 at 7:00pm on Monday 17th Tuesday 18th May.

MARTIN BAUM'S new book Oi Mate, Gimme Some More! a Yoof-Speak Guide to the Complete Novels of Charles Dickens, Innit is out on June 9th to coincide with the anniversary of Dickens's passing. www.yoofspeak.net

STEPHEN BENNETT wrote the episodes of Emmerdale going out on ITV1 at 7:00pm and 8:00pm on Thursday 20th May.

MOIRA BUFFINI wrote the screenplay for Tamara Drewe, based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds and directed by Stephen Frears, which will be premiered at the Cannes Film Festival next week. She will be in conversation with journalist Jason Solomons on Wednesday 19th May, 9.30pm- 10.30pm at the UK Film Centre, in the International Village, pavilion no. 121. The event is free but booking essential www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk.

BFI is mounting a retrospective of BRIAN CLEMENS'S work from July 2nd through to July 28th. He will be on stage on July 22nd to talk exclusively about The Avengers - and again on July 28th to talk about his other movie and TV work.

BILL GALLAGHER wrote the episode of The Prisoner "Schizoid" going out on ITV1 at 9:00pm on Saturday 15th May.

MATTHEW GRAHAM wrote the series finale of Ahses to Ashes going out on BBC1 at 9:00pm on Friday 21st May.

JAYNE HOLLINSON wrote the episode of Coronation Street going out on ITV1 at 7:30pm on Monday 17th May.

JULIE JONES wrote the episode of Coronation Street going out on ITV1 at 8:30pm on Monday 17th May.

JOHN KERR wrote the episode of Coronation Street going out on ITV1 at 8:30pm on Friday 21st May.

PAUL LAVERTY wrote the screenplay for Route Irish which will be premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday 20 May at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. Directed by Ken Loach and produced by Rebecca O'Brien, Route Irish is a tense triangular love story of two friends and the woman they both love. The men work as private security contractors in Iraq. Together they risk their lives in a city awash with violence and greed. When one of them is killed on Route Irish (the notoriously dangerous stretch of road linking Baghdad airport with the Green Zone) his friend rejects the official explanation and is determined to investigate the truth. Route Irish is a Sixteen Films Why Not Productions and Wild Bunch production made with the support of Les Films de Fleuve, BIM, Diaphana, Tornasol and Alta. Other financiers are France 2 and North West Vision Media. Wild Bunch is handling international sales.

MIKE LEIGH's new film, Another Year, starring Jim Broadbent and Imelda Staunton, will premier at the Cannes Film Festival next week. He will be in conversation with Stuart Kemp, U.K. Bureau Chief, Hollywood Reporter Tuesday 18th May, 9.00pm-10.00pm at the UK Film Centre, in the International Village, pavilion no. 121. See www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk for more information.

DAVID NOBBS'S new novel Obstacles To Young Love is coming out, paperback only, published by Harper, on June 10th. The novel after that, Life After Deborah, is written.

ALAN PLATER wrote the episode of Lewis "Your Sudden Death Question" going out on ITV1 at 8:00pm on Sunday 16th May.

GILLIAN RICHMOND wrote the episode of EastEnders going out on BBC1 at 7:30pm on Tuesday 18th May.

RICHARD STEVENS'S radio play Left At Marrakesh is going out on Radio 4 at 2:15pm on Friday 21st May.

STEVE TRAFFORD wrote the episode of The Bill "Walk on My Grave" going out on ITV1 at 9:00pm on Tuesday 18th May.

PETER VINCENT co-wrote the episode of When the Dog Dies "Portrait of the Artist As an Old Man" going out on Radio 4 at 11:30pm on Friday 21st May.

PETER WHALLEY wrote the episode of Coronation Street going out on ITV1 at 7:30pm on Friday 21st May.