Ed Reardon at Christmas

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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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Christopher Douglas

Philip Jackson

Barunka O'Shaughnessy

Nicola Sanderson

John Humphrys

Andrew Nickolds

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Ed Reardon's Week: Ed Reardon at Christmas

BBC Radio 4 - Ed Reardon's Week, Ed Reardon at Christmas

Author Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his Christmas week.

Ed Reardon is spending Christmas without even his trusty cat, Elgar, for company.  All he has for Christmas is a computer and a commission. First broadcast in 2016.

It’s time to celebrate the Christmas Week with Radio 4’s curmudgeonly author Ed Reardon, and his faithful companion Elgar.  Or is it?  As we meet Ed on Christmas Eve he seems to be abandoning his only friend at a cat refuge centre.  It seems that Ed must spend his Christmas day alone with only a computer for company as he’s been commissioned to write the thirty thousand word long ‘Great British Bake Off’ novel and Elgar isn’t allowed in the agency office. 

Still, all is not lost as he’s managed to scrape together the means to buy some liquid refreshment to keep him going.  He also has the unexpected ‘pleasure’ of Jaz Milvain turning up on Christmas Day to do some preparation work for his New Years’ Day appearance as guest editor on something called the ‘Today Programme’.  Ed will most surely give his old friend some helpful information...

Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas
Jaz Milvain ..... Philip Jackson
Ping ..... Barunka O’Shaughnessy
Cat Woman ..... Nicola Sanderson
John Humphrys ..... Himself

Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas
Produced by Dawn Ellis

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