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- ↑ My Name Is Sue Archived 5 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine , Review by Gerald Berkowitz, The Stage , 24 August 2009
- ↑ Total Theatre Award for Music and Theatre 2009
- ↑ This week's new theatre and dance: The Village Social, Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 15 October 2011
- 1 2 BBC – Afternoon Play – Blue Sky Thinking
- ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Tiny
- ↑ If That’s All There Is, Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 19 August 2009
- 1 2 Edinburgh Festival makes three fringe awards, STV/Reuters, 31 August 2009
- ↑ Total Theatre Award 2006
- ↑ CurtisBrown profile of Ben Lewis
- ↑ Inspector Sands profile of Ben Lewis Archived 30 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ National Theatre of Wales – The Village Social – Created by Dafydd James and Ben Lewis
- ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Cats and Monkeys
- ↑ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Captain Starlight's Apprentice
- ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Architects
- ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – Left at Marrakech
- ↑ BBC – The Wire – The Meek
- ↑ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Continuity Man