Milestone by Tony Clare
THE STORY I originally wrote Milestone several years ago – before the Hillsborough Inquest was announced. When the Inquest verdicts were delivered I realised I could adapt the script with just a very small number of changes. I liked the idea of the character seeing the events as a catalyst for change – a […]
A Tribute to Marcie Lane by Liz Taylor
THE STORY There are a few hats that I currently wear but I’m a mum first and foremost and I couldn’t imagine my life without my lovely boy. I still can’t quite believe I’ve got him and the idea of anything happening to him is just too awful… And so, incomplete families and lost […]
An Irresistible Force by Will Mount
THE STORY I met a sculptor on Twitter who told me that before unveiling her latest work she had to chop a piece off her statue because it offended a surviving relative of the subject. The ceremony would not have gone ahead if the appendage had stayed on. The artistic process is not sacred. […]
Bookmark by Robin Bell
THE STORY The catalyst of my Tribute was a bookmark. I wanted my tribute to focus on the emotions that death/bereavement brings up. Death is so unfathomable our brain pulls in many different ways to understand it. The emotion of my piece comes from a few of the comedic memories within it being personal […]
Eulogy for Tricia Slater by Sarah Penrose
THE WRITER: SARAH PENROSE + THE STORY I have spent a lot of years with a scattergun approach to life, doing a bit of this and a bit of that, but always leaning towards my creative side. I worked for BBC Radio Drama, wrote and directed plays, self published a novel, trained and then […]
Rex by Louise Vale
THE STORY Tributes are usually given by family members so my starting point was, “What if there isn’t any surviving family? Why might that be?” This led me to the idea of a character who had murdered his family, then died in prison. He may not have had many friends outside and, even if […]
Grandpa by Daniel Brierley
THE STORY My tribute is actually based on parts of the life of my granddad Alan who sadly passed away in April 2016. The character is actually an amalgam of all of my grandparents- my English grandma was a codebreaker at Bletchley Park, my Polish/German grandma was the best storyteller that ever lived and […]
A Great Man by Ben Weiner
THE STORY James Bellwether wonders how many people were called before someone picked up the phone to him to tell him that his own Dad was dying. That is what it is like being the child of a ‘great’ man. Always ignored, never valued for yourself. While James is angry, he is not bitter. […]
The Name on The Bench by David Hendon
THE STORY The year 2016 has seen a seemingly high number of notable deaths with inevitable eulogies and tributes following. I wanted to write about someone completely anonymous to the world at large but who meant something to those who loved him. I had the idea of somebody going through problems of their own […]
Turning by Marilyn Court-Lewis
THE STORY A woman and her older sister, both in their late thirties, go back to Wales to visit their long-widowed father as he lies dying in his hospital bed. All three are estranged from each other and as the younger sister narrates the details of their final dealings, she reflects upon her father’s […]