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Meet Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, fare-dodger and master of the abusive email.

Meet Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive email, trying to survive in a world where the media seems to be run by idiots and charlatans.

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Ed Reardon's Week: Series 7: In the Current Climate

In the Current Climate

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Ed works with the disturbingly compelling writer Ben Herbert for a book on austerity.

Ed works with disturbingly compelling writer Ben Herbert for a book on austerity. Stars Christopher Douglas. From January 2011.

Austerity has hit hard. Jaz is eating at austerity themed restaurants, Ping is drawing in stocking seams with magic marker and Ed is picking blackberries from the canal towpath for his breakfast. 

However, things may be looking up as we see Ed working with the most disturbingly fresh and mesmerizingly compelling voice of his generation, Ben Herbert. Ben has a three book deal and no time to write them all, so Ed has been drafted in to help him write one of the books - 'How to Survive With Like No Cash'. Surely a match made in heaven.

The comical world of an author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive e-mail.

Christopher Douglas stars as Ed Reardon.

Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds.

Ed Reardon ...... Christopher Douglas
Jaz Milvain ...... Philip Jackson
Cliff ...... Geoff McGivern
Ray ...... Simon Greenall
Ping ...... Barunka O'Shaughnessy
Felix ...... John Fortune
Ben Herbert ...... Tom Price
Pearl ...... Rita May
Olive ...... Stephanie Cole
Stan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Functionary ...... Henry Devas

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2011.

Ed Reardon's Week: Series 7

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Ed Reardon - author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive email.

Ed Reardon is an author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive email. Comedy series by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds.

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