The Offcuts Drawer - Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas
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42 episodes
3 weeks ago
Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas. Writing tips, truths & lessons learned from top writers’ greatest failures. Screenwriters, authors, novelists & playwrights share their rejected scripts, unfinished stories, abandoned chapters & creative misfires.
Clips performed by actors and unpacked in a warm and funny interview about craft, creativity & emotional survival with host Laura Shavin.
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Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas. Writing tips, truths & lessons learned from top writers’ greatest failures. Screenwriters, authors, novelists & playwrights share their rejected scripts, unfinished stories, abandoned chapters & creative misfires.
Clips performed by actors and unpacked in a warm and funny interview about craft, creativity & emotional survival with host Laura Shavin.
The Offcuts Drawer - Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas
54 minutes
3 months ago
Christopher Douglas - Comedy Writer & Actor
The writer & voice of BBC Radio 4's Ed Reardon shares the comedy scripts that missed the mark, got rejected by the commissioners or still remain unfinished.
CAST: Nigel Pilkington, Chris Kent, Jake Yapp, Helen Goldwyn, Beth Chalmers, Emma Clarke
Christopher Douglas is a British writer and performer, best known for co-writing and voicing Ed Reardon’s Week on BBC Radio 4 with the late Andrew Nickolds, a comedy series that has run for sixteen series and 100 episodes, and was twice recognized as Best Radio Programme by the Broadcasting Press Guild (2005, 2010).
He has also created the character Dave Podmore and co-written the radio comedies Mastering the Universe (2 series) and Beauty of Britain (3 series), along with a radio adaptation of New Grub Street and his award-winning drama Tristram Shandy: In Development. On screen and stage, he scripted performances featuring the Nicholas Craig persona (with Nigel Planer) for the BBC, and he is the author of several books including Spartan Cricketer, I, An Actor…, and Ed Reardon’s Week.
For more details about Christopher, his offcuts and the actors performing them see the episode show notes: offcutsdrawer.com/christopher-douglas
The Offcuts Drawer - Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas
Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas. Writing tips, truths & lessons learned from top writers’ greatest failures. Screenwriters, authors, novelists & playwrights share their rejected scripts, unfinished stories, abandoned chapters & creative misfires.
Clips performed by actors and unpacked in a warm and funny interview about craft, creativity & emotional survival with host Laura Shavin.