Ed Reardon's Week

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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: Become a Successful Writer

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The script doctor will see you now. After a writer's course, Ed turns expert.

The script doctor will see you now. After a writer's course, Ed turns expert. Stars Christopher Douglas. From January 2011.

Ed's enrolled on a writing course which endeavours to teach him how to 'write successfully'. 

He naturally feels he's already mastered this art, as testified to in the 1976 issue of Films and Filming, and the fact that he teaches his own course at the local leisure centre. 

However, much persuasion by Ping and the mention of free food and drink for three days finally sways Ed into attendance. In the event, Ed does learn a thing or two about setting up his very own 'Script Doctor' service at £25 a consultation.

The comical world of a curmudgeonly pipe-smoking author and his trusty cat Elgar - with his never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever scraps his agent Ping digs up.

Christopher Douglas stars as Ed Reardon.

Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds.

Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas
Felix ..... John Fortune
Jaz Milvane ..... Philip Jackson
Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy
Heidi ..... Matilda Ziegler
Window Cleaner ..... Dan Tetsell
Pearl ..... Rita May
Olive ..... Stephanie Cole
Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Houseowner ..... Paul Merton

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2011.

Ed Reardon's Week: Series 7

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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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