as
19th July 2008
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Dirk Maggs Born in Jersey
in the 1950's |
| 1978 |
Attends Studio Managers Course
19 and takes Parts I and II at the BBC |
1979-81 |
Assistant Producer Television Presentation |
1979 |
Starts Work Loading Panavision magazines
on a Donald Sutherland feature |
1982 |
Gets Married & has 3 children in
the end |
1985 |
World Service popular Music producer |
1986 |
Starts as Radio 2 Promotions Producer |
1988 |
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1988 |
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1988 |
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1988 |
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1988 |
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1988 |
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1988 |
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1988 |
Stops Being Radio 2 promotions
producer |
1988 |
Starts as Radio Light Entertainment
producer |
1989 |
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1989 |
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1989 |
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1989 |
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1989 |
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1989 |
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1990 |
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1991 |
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1991 |
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1992 |
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1992 |
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1992 |
Dirk’s recreations of classic
Marx Brothers radio shows, Flywheel,
Shyster & Flywheel win Gold Medal at the New York International
Festival |
1992 |
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1992 |
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1992 |
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1992 |
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1992 |
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1993 |
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1993 |
Superman:
Doomsday & Beyond voted Spoken Word Audio of The Year
by the U.S. Publisher’s Weekly |
1993 |
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1993 |
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1994 |
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1994 |
Superman:
Doomsday & Beyond won Audie Award for Best Dramatisation
by the American Booksellers Association. |
1994 |
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1994 |
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1994 |
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1995 |
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1995 |
The
Amazing Spider-Man nominated for the 1995 Writers Guild
Award for Best Dramatisation. |
1995 |
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1995 |
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1995 |
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1995 |
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1995 |
Dirk’s production of Judge
Dredd won the 1995 Talkie Award for Best Production. |
1995 |
Stops Being Radio Light Ent
producer |
1995 |
Dirk Leaves the BBC to go
freelance |
1996 |
Dirk Forms Audio
Movies Ltd at The
Soundhouse with partners Paul Deeley and Phil Horne |
1996 |
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1996 |
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1996 |
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| 1996 |
Independence
Day UK, No1 Selling Spoken Word Cassette in the Bookseller
Chart, won Talkie Award for Best Production. |
1997 |
"American Werewolf"
production won the 1997 Talkie Award for Best TV/ Film Adaptation. |
1997 |
Dirk’s script for "American
Werewolf" nominated for the Writers Guild Award for Best Dramatisation |
1997 |
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1997 |
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1997 |
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1997 |
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1997 |
Devised
and produced The Jasper Carrott Trial, which immediately
transferred to BBC TV. |
1998 |
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1998 |
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1998 |
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1998 |
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1998 |
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1999 |
The Directors Guild of Great
Britain invite Dirk to give a seminar on his work at the Actors Centre
in London |
1999 |
Dirk’s adaptation of Voyage,
Stephen Baxter’s best selling novel about a NASA Mars mission won the
Talkie Award for Best Use of Music. |
1999 |
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1999 |
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1999 |
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1999 |
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1999 |
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1999 |
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1999 |
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2000 |
Awarded a Sony Bronze Award
for Best Drama, Dirk’s adaptation of Voyage,
Stephen Baxter’s best selling novel about a NASA Mars mission |
2000 |
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2000 |
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| 2000 | The Flump |
2000 |
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2000 |
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2001 |
Dirk Maggs searches the Internet,
falls off his chair on finding a page on an old website of mine with
info on him for his Voyage work |
2001 |
Dirk Maggs site created,
because I could find no other site about a radio director |
2001 |
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2001 |
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2001 |
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2002 |
Goon
Again - 50th Anniversary Goon Show The 2002 best comedy award
from the spoken word producers association |
2002 |
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2002 |
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2002 |
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2002 |
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2002 |
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| 2002 |
Bunn
and Coeen Mother. |
2002 |
Dirk Maggs website hits 9517
hits in July 2002 |
2002 |
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2002 |
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2002 |
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2002 |
Dirk Maggs website hits 18431 hits in December
2002 |
2003 |
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2003 |
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2003 |
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2003 |
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2003 |
Night
Class Bronze award in the Comedy category of the 2003 Sony
Radio awards |
2003 |
Dirk Maggs website hits 23465 hits in March
2003 |
2003 |
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2003 |
Dirk Maggs website hits 27343 hits in June
2003 |
2003 |
Website stops using web counters, ( got
site logs for that and they are all mine ha ha ha ) |
2003 |
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2004 |
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2004 |
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2004 |
Douglas
Adams at the BBC cd set released |
2004 |
Misery
Dirk was the adaptor only |
2004 |
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2004 |
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2004 |
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2005 |
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2005 |
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2005 |
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2006 |
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2006 |
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2006 |
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2006 |
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2007 |
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| 2007 | On the Blog |
| 2007 | Dirk Gently Series 1 |
| 2007 | Henry's Girls |
| 2007 | A Night in the Ukraine |
| 2007 | Neither Here nor There |
| 2007 | Tortoise |
| 2008 | On The Blog 2 |
| 2008 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
| 2008 | Dirk Gently Series 2 |
| 2009 | Dirk Gently Series 3 |