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Shaun MacLoughlin

Radio Producer, Author, University Teacher and Actor

Academic and Professional:

• Educated by Jesuit Fathers at Beaumont College
• Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Oxford University
• 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Artillery
• Tour Guide in France and Spain
• Theatrical Agent, representing leading actors and dramatists
• Script Editor, Thirty Minute Theatre, BBC2
• Script Editor, The Wednesday Play, BBC1
• Script Editor, The Afternoon Play, BBC Radio 4
• Senior Radio Drama Producer, Bristol
• Winner of Sony Radio Comedy Award for "Crisp and Even Brightly", in which Timothy West played 'Good' King Wenceslas
• Producer of 13 x 1 hour BBC Radio Histories of Australia for the Bicentary in 1988
• Directed Walter Matthau in his only radio play in Los Angeles
• Favourite production: his Cycling Pilgrimage from Mont St Michel to Santiago de Compostela with Seamus his 12 year old son, broadcast four times on Radio 4

• Director of Stage Plays, including The Healing Arts with Vietnamese Actors for the Small Stage Company, Saigon. The play was appreciated by the United Nations Peace Meditation Group
• Director of Independent Radio Production "The Hearts and Lives of Men" by Fay Weldon
• Director with Bob Pierson of 4 Oscar Wilde Plays for Penguin Audiostarring Sir Derek Jacobi, Jane Lapotaire, Stephanie Beecham, Miriam Margolyes, Greg Wise, Anna Massey, Ronald Pickup and others.
• Radio Acting Tutor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the Birmingham School of Acting
• Script Writing Tutor in the Creative Studies Faculty at Bath Spa University
• Screenplay Writing Tutor on the Film Director's MA Course at Bristol University

• Radio Drama Producer and Enabler in HM Prisons Channings Wood and Rye Hill
• Producer of The Flower Room for BBC Radio 4, recorded on location in China, and with Chinese actors in London
• Playwright of The Flying Palaces of Angkor, a stage play for tourists visiting the temples of Cambodia
• Author of Writing (and Acting) for Radio, 4th edition, recommended on University courses
• Writer of Poetry Features on John Donne,  Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Wordworth

Personal:

Married with three grown up children and two grandchildren.

A follower of A Course in Miracles and of the teaching in The Ringing Cedars series, of Of Water and the Spirit and The Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Some and Talking with Leaders of the Past and with Twentieth Century Men and Women compiled by Peter Watson Jenkins and channeled by Toni Ann Winninger. Please see below.

Addicted to travelling, particularly in the Far East, West Africa and Russia.

Enjoys friendships, gardening on his allotment, learning languages, walking, cycling, swimming and paddling.

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Reading

From a lifetime's reading, I particularly recommend Lazarus Come Forth! by Valentin Tomberg. This highly original and deeply researched book is intellectually thought provoking and spiritually consoling. Its first chapter, in which the author explores the parallels between the seven days of creation in Genesis and the seven miracles in the Gospel of St John, is inspirational. He goes onto to explore forgetfulness and its older brothers, sleep and death. He makes a strong case that like Lazarus and Christ we have it within us to awaken from all three. I am still reading and re-reading the earlier chapters of this book and carry it with me wherever I go. Valentin Tomberg is an unsung genius and healer of souls.

Otherwise I have forgotten more books than I care to remember, but from a lifetime's reading I recommend these: