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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

Stephanie Cole

Jonathan Coy

Corrie Corfield

Philip Jackson

Felicity Montagu

Carolyn Pickles

Nicola Sanderson

Alison Steadman

Barunka O'Shaughnessy

Geoffrey Whitehead

Andrew Nickolds

Dawn Ellis

Ed Reardon's Week: Series 9: Intellectual Fireworks

Intellectual Fireworks

Series 9

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Ed takes up a professorship at a prestigious writing retreat.

A professor at a prestigious writing retreat? Is Ed's good fortune too good to be true? Stars Christopher Douglas. From December 2013.

Ed appears to have stepped on the gravy train at last as he takes up a professorship at Much Wenlock Court – a prestigious writing retreat. 

He hopes this will lead him at the very least, to a contentious Saturday Essay on Radio 4' s Today Programme. 

But, alas, this retreat has been set up by one Jaz Milvain so could Ed's change in fortune be too good to be true..? 

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

Starring Christopher Douglas

Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas 

Ed Reardon......Christopher Douglas
Olive......Stephanie Cole 
Ned......Jonathan Coy 
Newsreader......Corrie Corfield 
Jaz......Philip Jackson 
Rosemary......Felicity Montagu 
Maureen......Carolyn Pickles 
Suki/Waitress......Nicola Sanderson
Pearl......Alison Steadman 
Ping/Lisa......Barunka O'Shaughnessy 
Stan......Geoffrey Whitehead 

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.

Ed Reardon's Week: Series 9

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