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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

Andrew Nickolds

Stephanie Cole

Brigit Forsyth

Divian Ladwa

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Philip Jackson

Barunka O'Shaughnessy

Geoffrey Whitehead

Dawn Ellis

Ed Reardon's Week: Series 11: Episode 1: The Reboot

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Episode 1: The Reboot

Series 11

The Reboot

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Ed Reardon is back, this time in unfamiliar territory as he's become a student at 'Uni'.

Author Ed is in unfamiliar territory returning to full-time education at 'Uni'. Stars Christopher Douglas. From 2016.

Ed Reardon is back, and this time in slightly unfamiliar territory as he has entered the groves of academe and returned to full-time education at 'Uni'. 

He's doing a three-year course in, well he's not entirely sure, but at the end he'll get a BA with the chance of a two-year MA add-on. 

The fact that he'll have warm, comfortable accommodation for the foreseeable future, a student loan to pay the rent and that he'll reach 65 by the time he's finished the course and therefore passed the age of paying back the fees has nothing to do with his decision to study. 

No, this is all to do with making up for lost time when his studies were cut short in his youth following expulsion from school. 

Of course, as with all students nowadays Ed will need to boost his loan by earning extra cash so he'll still be pestering his agent, Ping for writing opportunities.

So it is we find him reimagining a series of children's books and giving them a savvy post-modern twist for a "cool hundred each" whilst trying to keep up with the other students and their love of coffee shop loyalty cards, seminar satisfaction surveys and certain daytime TV shows.

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
Pearl	    ......    Brigit Forsyth
Max    ......    Divian Ladwa
Antonia    ......    Sylvestra Le Touzel
Jaz Milvain    ......    Philip Jackson
Ping    ......    Barunka O'Shaughnessy
Stan    ......    Geoffrey Whitehead

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016.

Ed Reardon's Week: Series 11

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