I set myself a challenge at the start of lockdown. Sit down every day and improvise for five minutes into the microphone. I thought it would be a good way to feel like I’m producing something, and to exercise a creative muscle I don’t use enough.
Here’s the first episode of six monologues.
If you want to download it, right-click this link and choose Save As … .
So there.
Episode Two is here.
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