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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 15: 4. Ed in Paris

4. Ed in Paris

Series 15

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Ed heads to Paris, where his seminal novel is to be republished.

Ed is invited to Paris to discuss his seminal first novel and takes Maggie along to enjoy a ‘Citybreak’.

Ed’s friend, and nemesis, Jaz Milvane is to be offered a peerage and is hoping he can use the title ‘Jaz Milvain of Tinsletown’.  Ed meanwhile is thrilled when a French publisher asks for the rights to his seminal first work of fiction ‘Who Would Fardels Bear’, and invites him to Paris to discuss the novel on the publisher's Youtube channel.  Finally, he can be recognised as the true giant of the socialist realist movement he is, without the taint of Jaz’s awful film adaption ‘Sister Mom’.  There is also the added advantage of affording him the opportunity to take Maggie on a romantic ‘Citybreak’.

Ed Reardon - Christopher Douglas
Ping - Barunka  O’Shaughnessy
Jaz Milvane - Phillip Jackson
Maggie - Pippa Haywood
Stan - Geoffrey Whitehead
Olive - Sally Grace
Winnie - Ellen Thomas
Radio Presenter - Nicola Sanderson
Claude - Rachel Atkins

Written by Christopher Douglas
Produced by Dawn Ellis
Production Co-ordinator - Katie Baum
Sound - Jon Calver

Ed Reardon's Week: Series 15

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

Comedy. The curmudgeonly author takes listeners through his week.

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