1. David George Dirk Maggs was born on St Helier, Jersey, February 1955 and is a British freelance writer and director.
20 Facts About Dirk Maggs
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Dirk Maggs studied Drama for a BEd degree from 1974 to 1978 at King Alfred's College, Winchester.
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In December 2021 Dirk Maggs was on a team representing the University of Winchester in BBC TV's Christmas University Challenge.
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Dirk Maggs was awarded "Best Audiobook Producer" Award by the Audio Publishers Association at the 2021 Audio Production Awards at the BFI in London.
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Dirk Maggs is married to Lesley Dirk Maggs, nee Snow, whom he met in 1978 when they were Studio Managers in BBC World Service.
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Dirk Maggs produced Goon Again in 2001 for the 50th anniversary of The Goon Show with the permission of Spike Milligan.
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In 2002 Dirk Maggs directed the Johnny Vegas radio series Night Class.
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In 2019 Dirk Maggs directed The Goodies in "The Big Ben Theory" for Audible.
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Early in his career, Dirk Maggs worked on audio adaptations of comic book material.
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Dirk Maggs started in 1988 with the 50th Anniversary Man Of Steel docudrama Superman on Trial, carried on with a 50th birthday tribute to the Dark Knight: Batman: The Lazarus Syndrome.
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In 1996, Dirk Maggs was contacted by 20th Century Fox and asked to create a British-based "parallel-quel" to their summer science fiction blockbuster Independence Day.
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The next year, with the blessing of director John Landis, Dirk Maggs produced and directed his own adaptation of An American Werewolf in London for BBC Radio One.
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Dirk Maggs' adaptation was presented on BBC Radio 4, and received the 1999 Talkie Award for Best Use of Music as well as the 2000 Sony Radio Academy Bronze Award for Best Drama.
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Dirk Maggs directed adaptations of several Agatha Christie short stories for Radio Four, and a production of Bill Naughton's Alfie for the BBC World Service.
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In 1992, Douglas Adams approached BBC Radio Light Entertainment to ask if Dirk Maggs would collaborate on bringing Adams's science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "back home to BBC Radio", as Adams put it.
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Contractual issues delayed the production and was not until 2003 to 2005 that Dirk Maggs adapted, produced and directed new episodes from Adams's last three novels which were based on the premise of the original radio series written by Adams.
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In 2013, Dirk Maggs wrote and co-directed a dramatisation the BBC Radio 4 radio play Neverwhere, based on the television series Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
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In 2016, Dirk Maggs was approached by Audible Originals to adapt and direct Alien: Out Of The Shadows by Tim Lebbon, the first in a series of three stories set in the Alien film universe.
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The Sandman: Act III is again adapted and directed by Dirk Maggs and was released in October, 2022.
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Dirk Maggs is credited as Voice Director on the highly acclaimed adventure game, Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon featuring Rolf Saxon and Sarah Crook.