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Dirk Maggs Timeline
1955 Dirk is born in Bristol England UK
1974-78 Dirk Attends what becomes Winchester University in England, trained as a teacher
1978 Dirk Attends the BBC's Studio Managers Course Number 19 & takes Parts I and II at the BBC
1979-1981 Dirk is an Assistant Producer Television Presentation
1979 Dirk Starts Work Loading Panavision magazines on a Donald Sutherland feature film
1982 Dirk Gets Married & has 3 children.
1985 Dirk is a BBC World Service Popular Music Producer
1986 Dirk Starts as a BBC Radio 2 Promotions Producer
1987 Thunderbirds for Children in Need
1988 Some of These days
1988 Nightcap
1988 The Announcers Challenge I
1988 The Press Gang 1988
1988 Superman On Trial
1988 The Long Hot Satsuma
1988 Dirk Stops Being a BBC Radio 2 Promotions Producer
1988 Dirk Starts as a BBC Radio Light Entertainment Producer
1989 The News Huddlines Series 25
1989 Dead Trouble
1989 Some of These days
1989 The Press Gang 1989
1989 Why Centennial
1989 The Announcers Challenge II
1989 Batman: The Lazarus Syndrome
1989 The News Huddlines Series 26
1990 Pop Score 1990
1990 The News Huddlines Series 27
1990 Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel Series 1
1990 The Adventures of Superman Series 1
1990 The News Huddlines Series 28
1991 Pop Score 1991
1991 The News Huddlines Series 29
1991 Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel Series 2
1991 The Adventures of Superman Series 2
1991 The News Huddlines Series 30
1992 Jacobs's Journal
1992 Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel Series 3
1992 Dirk’s recreations of classic Marx Brothers radio shows, Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel win Gold Medal at the New York International Festival
1992 Inside Sasha
1992 Jessica Martin - One Woman Show
1992 June Whitfield - One Woman Show
1992 The Light Entertainment Show
1992 Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish
1992 Sony Bronze Award for Best comedy. The Light Entertainment Show
1993 Superman - Doomsday & Beyond
1993 Superman - Doomsday & Beyond voted Spoken Word Audio of The Year by the U.S. Publisher’s Weekly
1993 Loose Ends 1993
1993 Educated Evans
1994 Loose Ends 1994
1994 Superman - Doomsday & Beyond won Audie Award for Best Dramatisation by the American Booksellers Association.
1994 Batman: Knightfall
1994 Ivan The Cobbler
1994 Truly Madly Bletchley Series 1
1995 The Amazing Spider-Man nominated for the 1995 Writers Guild Award for Best Dramatisation.
1995 Peter Pan
1995 Nobblers
1995 Jesus -The Gospel of St. Luke
1995 Judge Dredd
1995 Dirk’s production of Judge Dredd won the 1995 Talkie Award for Best Production.
1995 Stops Being BBC Radio Light Entertainment producer
1995 Dirk Leaves the BBC to go freelance
1996 Dirk Forms Audio Movies Ltd at The Soundhouse with partners Paul Deeley & Phil Horne
1996 The Jasper Carrott Trial Series 1
1996 Carrott's Comedy Choice Series 2
1996 Independence Day UK
1996 Educated Evans
1996 Independence Day UK, No 1 Selling Spoken Word Cassette in the Bookseller Chart, won Talkie Award for Best Production.
1997 "An American Werewolf In London" production won the 1997 Talkie Award for Best TV/ Film Adaptation.
1997 Dirk’s script for "An American Werewolf In London" nominated for the Writers Guild Award for Best Dramatisation
1997 The Jasper Carrott Trial Series 2
1997 Love 40 New Balls Please Series 1
1997 The Russ Abbot Show Series 1
1997 An American Werewolf In London
1997 Dirk Devised & Produced The Jasper Carrott Trial, which immediately transferred to BBC TV.
1998 The Russ Abbot Show Series 2
1998 The Gemini Apes
1998 Love 40 New Balls Please Series 2
1998 Man of Soup Series 1
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 The Russ Abbot Show Series 3
1999 Ringing The Changes - Millennium Play
1999 Beginnings - Millennium Soundscape
1999 It's Been A Bad Week Series 1
1999 It's Been A Bad Week Series 2
1999 Voyage
1999 Love 40 New Balls Please Series 3
1999 The Millennium Bug
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 The Russ Abbot Show Series 4
2000 Ben-Hur
2000 The Flump
2000 It's Been A Bad Week Series 3
2000 It's Been A Bad Week Series 4
2000 Man of Soup Series 2
2001 Dirk Maggs searches the Internet, falls off his chair, on finding a page on an old website of mine (on Demon Internet! of all things) with info on him for his Radio series Voyage work (David williams)
2001 My Dirk Maggs website created, because I could find no other site about this radio director, it also gave me a chance to learn this website stuff (David Williams)
2001 2001 A Space Odyssey
2001 Goon Again - 50th Anniversary Goon Show
2001 The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
2002 Goon Again - 50th Anniversary Goon Show The 2002 best comedy award from the spoken word producer's association
2002 Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution
2002 The Russ Abbott Show Series 2002
2002 Agatha Christie's The Gates of Baghdad
2002 Lean on Me
2002 Agatha Christie's Hound of Death
2002 Bunn and Co
2002 My Dirk Maggs website hits 9517 hits in July 2002 (David Williams)
2002 The Night Listener
2002 Night Class
2002 Tim Merryman's Days of Clover
2002 My Dirk Maggs website hits 18431 hits in December 2002 (David Williams)
2003 Agatha Christie's The £199 Adventure
2003 Agatha Christie's The Gypsy
2003 Agatha Christie's The Last Seance
2003 Bunn & Co I
2003 Comedy category of the Sony Radio Awards. Night Class Bronze Award
2003 My Dirk Maggs website hits 23465 hits in March 2003 (David Williams)
2003 Tim Merryman's Days of Clover series
2003 My Dirk Maggs website hits 27343 hits in June 2003 (David Williams)
2003 My Dirk Maggs Website stops using web counters, (got site logs for that & they are all mine ha ha David Williams....)
2003 Alfie Elkins and his Little Life
2004 Bunn & Co II
2004 Dirk Maggs awarded Mark Time Grand Master Lifetime Achievement Award 2004
2004 Douglas Adams at the BBC CD set released
2004 Misery
2004 Life, The Universe and Everything
2005 So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
2005 Mostly Harmless
2005 Mirabelle & Me
2006 Lucky Lonny
2006 Jack Rosenthal’s Last Act
2006 Whenever
2006 Dirk Sets up Perfectly Normal Productions (PNP) production company
2006 US Publishers Association Audiobook of the year. Hitchhikers Guide
2007 Chloe
2007 On the Blog
2007 Dirk Gently Series 1
2007 Henry's Girls
2007 US Publishers Association Best Adapted Work. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
2007 Tortoise
2008 On The Blog 2
2008 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
2008 Dirk Gently Series 2
2008 Audiofile Golden Earphones Award. Three Agatha Christie Mysteries
2008 The Johnny Cash Hi-Jack Roadshow
2008 Boscobel
2008 Growning up with the Goons
2009 Mugsborough 1917
2009 Mugsborough 1926
2009 The Adventures of Sexton Blake-Detective!
2009 My Mad Grandad
2010 Badfellas
2011 Washington 9/11
2011 The Porlock Poisoner
2011 Beyond Borders
2012 The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show, Live! Tour (in the UK only) I saw the Woking one (David Williams).
2012 Interiors
2013 Neverwhere
2013 The Iraq Dossier
2013 Jake Liebowitz: A Life in Film
2013 Out of the Blue
2013 US Audiofile Earphones Award. Neverwhere
2014 Ebola
2014 By a Young Officer: Churchill on the North Western frontier
2014 Good Omens
2014 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Live
2015 Heading to Paradise
2015 BBC Audio Drama Award, Outstanding Contribution. Good Omens
2016 How The Marquis Got His Coat Back
2016 Stardust
2016 Alien: Out of the Shadows
2016 Death and Taxis
2016 Michael & Boris: The Two Brexiteers
2016 Burn Baby Burn
2017 Alien: River of Pain
2017 The X-Files: Stolen Lives
2017 Anansi Boys
2017 Audie Award for Excellence in Production. Alien Out of the Shadows
2018 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase
2018 The Final Take: Bowie in the Studio
2018 Low
2018 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Audio. Anansi Boys
2018 Radio Academy Aria Bronze Award. The Final Take: Bowie in the Studio
2019 Alien: Out of the Shadows
2019 Puckoon
2019 The Goodies Return
2019 Audie Award for Best Science Fiction. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Hexagonal Phase
2020 The Sandman
2020 Sheltered
2021 Marais and The Soul of the Termite
2021 Starship Titanic
2021 The Sandman Act II
2021 Audiobook Producer of the Year. The Audio Production Awards, BFI, London
2022 The Sandman Act III
2023 Nothing Known
2024 The Goat Doctor
2025 Kingdom Come
2026 Nothing Yet
