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Seán Street (born 2 June, 1946, Waterlooville, Hampshire) is a writer, poet, broadcaster and Britain's first Profesor of Radio. He retired from full-time academic life in 2011 but continues to write and broadcast.

Acting
He trained as an actor at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama (1964-67), and spent a year in Paris, France before pursuing an acting career in the UK.

Radio
In April, 1970, while appearing in the West End play, Conduct Unbecoming, he was invited to sit in on a live late night BBC Radio 2 programme, where he witnessed the unfolding drama of the Apollo 13 incident. It was a seminal moment, and persuaded Street that his future lay in the medium of radio.

He joined the staff of BBC Radio Solent later that year, as the new station prepared for its first transmission and eventually stayed there for six years. After a four year interval he returned to radio, this time working in the independent sector as part of the founding team of 2CR, (Two Counties Radio), Bournemouth. Here, as Features Editor, he produced a number of documentaries and features which were heard on many stations across the ILR (Independent Local Radio) network. In 1986, Street became freelance, making programmes for BBC Radios 2, 3, 4 and the World Service, mostly of an historical/literature nature.

He started teaching radio production at Bournemouth University in 1987, and during the late 1980s increasingly raised the profile of radio studies in academia. In 1999 he founded the MA in Radio Production in Bournemouth's Media School. In the same year that he was awarded a professorship, becoming Britain's first Professor of Radio, while continuing to make his own radio programmes for the main BBC networks.

The early years of the 21st century saw him as Director of the Centre for Broadcasting History Research, leading a number of significant initiatives to digitise UK radio, with particular emphasis on the commercial sector. In 2003 he established Charles Parker Day, a one-day conference to explore aspects of the creator (with Ewan MacColl) of 'The Radio Ballads'. This has now become an annual event in the UK radio conference calendar. The conference includes award of the 'Charles Parker Prize for Student Radio Features'.

In 2004 and 2005 Street was academic leader of Global Watch Missions run by the UK Department of Trade and Industry, exploring new technical developments in radio in the US, South Korea and Singapore, subsequently publishing the results in reports which were to have considerable influence on certain aspects of UK radio development. Through the first ten years of the century he made several visits to Newfoundland. Out of this came a number of radio programmes, academic papers and poems, notably The Broadcast, a sequence based on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation programme, The Fisheries Broadcast.

Writing
After leaving Radio Solent in 1976 he took up a post teaching drama and poetry studies at the Arts Educational School, Tring Park. Here he developed his own writing skills, including magazine journalism, poetry, playwriting and adaptation.

He was commissioned by the Salisbury Playhouse to write two plays A Shepherd's Life (1985) and Wessex Days (1990) both of which were subsequently toured by Lifeblood Theatre. In 1993 The Royal Theatre, Northampton commissioned his play about the poet John Clare, Honest John which won the Eileen Anderson/Central Television Award for new drama in that year. For the actor Christopher Robbie he wrote his one-man play on the life of Charles Darwin, Beyond Paradise – The Wildlife of a Gentle Man, which began touring in 1998.

Between 2002 and 2006 he wrote a number of books on radio history which were to become key texts for academic courses and scholars, among them Crossing the Ether, based on research originally undertaken while studying for his Ph.D on pre-war UK commercial radio and the BBC.

His radio programme The Broadcast helped to inspire his 2009 Rockingham Press collection, Time Between Tides, New and Selected Poems. In 2012 Routledge published The Poetry of Radio, The Colour of Sound, a work which drew together the two creative passions of his life, radio and poetry. He has also developed fruitful collaborations with the composer Cecilia McDowall and the tenor Robert Murray.

Personal Life
In 1968 he met actress, theatre coach and director Joanne Dynan. They married in 1970 and have two daughters, Jemma who is an artist and picture editor, and Zoe who is an author and music journalist.

Poetry
Poems of Earth and Sky (Paul Cave, 1976)

Figure in a Landscape ( Outposts,1980)

Carvings (Guthlaxton Wordsmith, 1981)

A Walk in Winter (Enitharmon, 1989)

This True Making (KQBX Press, 1992)

Radio and Other Poems (Rockingham Press, 1999)

Radio Waves (Enitharmon, 2004)

Time Between Tides, New and Selected Poems (Rockingham Press, 2009)

Radio
A Concise History of British Radio (Kelly Publications, 2002)

The Future of Radio – a Mission to the USA (DTI/Global Watch, 2004)

The Future of Radio – a Mission to South Korea and Singapore (DTI/Global Watch, 2005)

Crossing the Ether, British Public Service Radio and Commercial Competition 1922-1945 (John Libbey, 2006)

The Historical Dictionary of British Radio (Scarecrow Press, 2007) The A to Z of British Radio (Scarecrow Press, 2009)

Literature
Tea, Set and Match (NPN Publications, 1979)

The Wreck of the Deutschland – An Historical Note (Interim Press, 1987)

The Wreck of the Deutschland (Souvenir Press, 1992) The Dymock Poets (Seren, 1993)

Rupert Brooke: the Unimpeded Self (Dymock Poets Archive and Study Centre, 1996)

Music
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (with Raymond Carpenter) (Dovecote Press, 1993)

Shipping Forecast (with Cecilia McDowall) (Oxford University Press, 2011) Theatre of Tango (with Cecilia McDowall) (Oxford University Press, 2011) Seventy Degrees Below Zero (with Cecilia McDowall) (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Topographical
Hampshire Miscellany (Countryside Books, 1984) Tales of Old Dorset (Countryside Books, 1985) Petersfield, a Pictorial Past (Ensign, 1989)

A Remembered Land (Michael Joseph, 1993)

Radio Features (Selected)
Who Was Jane Austen? (BBC Radio Solent, 1972)

6BM Calling (BBC Radio Solent, 1973)

The Poet Speaks (Series, 2CR, Bournemouth, 1980-82)

Dorset Caught in Time (2CR, Bournemouth, 1982)

Daughter the Younger (2CR, Bournemouth, 1985)

The Drift of Time (BBC Radio 4, 1986)

Tolkien, Maker of Middle Earth (LBC, 1986)

The Wreck of the Deutschland (Radio 4, 1987)

Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin (LBC, 1988)

Henry Irving at the Lyceum (LBC, 1989)

W.H. Hudson (BBC World Service, 1991)

Bernard Leach (BBC World Service, 1992)

Lost Villages (Series, BBC Radio 4, 1992)

David Gascoyne – A Burning Sound (BBC Radio 4, 1993)

Keith Douglas – Simplify Me When I'm Dead (BBC Radio 4, 1994)

On Sussex Hills (Series, with Christopher Cook, BBC Radio 2, 1995)

Celtic Soul (Series, BBC Radio 3, 1996)

Procession to the Private Sector (BBC Radio 3, 1998)

The Broadcast (BBC Radio 4, 2004)

Radio Tarifa Calling (BBC Radio 3, 2004)

The 'Frisco Quake (BBC Radio 4, 2006)

Then-Now (BBC Radio 4, 2006)

The Splintered City (BBC Radio 3, 2007)

The Trial of Ezra Pound (BBC Radio 3, 2008)

Like Blackpool Went Through Rock (BBC Radio 4, 2008)

Sable Island, a Dune Adrift (BBC Radio 4, 2009)

At Cupid's Cove (BBC Radio 3, 2009)

Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature (BBC Radio 4, 2010)

The Blackbird (Newstalk, Ireland, 2010)

Walls of Sound (BBC Radio 4, 2011/12)

The Sound of Fear (BBC Radio 4, 2011)

Leaving Cambridge Again – and Again (BBC Radio 3, 2012)

Original Drama
1979 Tea Set and Match - Arts Educational Trust

1985 A Shepherd’s Life - Salisbury Playhouse

1990 Wessex Days - Salisbury Playhouse (Later revived and toured by Lifeblood Theatre)

1993 Honest John - Royal Theatre, Northampton (Central Television Award for new writing).

1998 Beyond Paradise – the Wildlife of a Gentle Man - Dragonfly Productions

2000 Urban Sonnets - (Royal National Theatre - in Metropolis Kabarett)

Adaptations
1986 The Drift of Time (BBC Radio 4)

1995 Procession to the Private Sector (BBC Radio 3)