Lying On A Bench

December 24, 2017

Lying On A Bench

I sometimes forget all about things I’ve written, and when I revisit them years later, it feels like someone else has written my words. That’s the experience I had last night, when I stumbled upon this, languishing in a quiet corner of my website.

It’s called Lying On A Bench, and it’s a script I initially developed with Ed Morrish for BBC Radio 4. It didn’t get commissioned, and eventually ended up on Resonance FM, after a few of us got together in a recording studio and made it. You’ll recognise the voices of Jon Richardson and Iszi Lawrence, and it aired in May, and again in June, of 2006.

(Download)

I think I might write some more.

e.phemera, Thought Vomit

<

>

Buy My Books

Proctology: A Bottom Examination

For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

Follow

Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…