Creditworthy

There's a play on the radio.  Or television (although this rarely gets turned on here).  The actors get a big mention, and usually the producer, too.  But what about the creator who actually wrote the thing?  It's a brief after-thought in the credits, if at all.

I tuned into a Radio 4 play this afternoon,  Every Child Matters.  It impressed me and I took the trouble to look up the listing on the BBC web page.  There was a neat synopsis and full credits for the actors, including a biographical paragraph each.  But not a word about the writer - Christopher Reason, to give him full credit here - without whom, to state the obvious, there would be no lines for the actors to recite.

Are writers so shy as to not demand greater recognition?