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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 14: Platinum Writer

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Ed has to choose between a project with Jaz Milvain or Maggie.

Once more on his uppers, Ed finds himself having to choose between a project with Jaz Milvain, or with Maggie.

Episode 6:  Platinum Writer

Ed is once more in financial crisis following Elgar’s huge vets bill.  Gone is the fancy new car, the trips out, and the fodder box.  Staying home isn’t so much a rule now as a necessity driven by lack of funds, and live streaming is the new Theatre.  But there is light on the horizon when Ed is offered the chance to write the script for a new movie by Jaz Milvain.  Maggie has also secured Ed a job writing biographies for ‘ordinary people’ which pays well, includes a free car and earns Ed the plaudit of ‘Platinum Writer’.  The problem is, Ed can only choose one job – which is it to be?

Cast list ep 6
Ed Reardon………..Christopher Douglas
Ping…………….……..Barunka O’Shaughnessy
Jaz……………………..Philp Jackson
Maggie……………….Pippa Haywood
Eli………………………..Lisa Coleman
Jake…………………….Sam Pamphillon
Olive…………………..Stephanie Cole
Pearl…………………..Brigit Forsyth
Stan……………………Geoffrey Whitehead

Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas
Produced by Dawn Ellis
Production Co-ordinator: Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred
Sound Recordist and Editor: David Thomas
A BBC Studios Production first broadcast in 2021

Ed Reardon's Week: Series 14

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