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What connects a golden-fleeced ram, a goddess crafted from clouds and a set of twins? Davina the Diviner reveals all. The key to your destiny may lie in the stars. Written by Morag Cross. Directed by Bibi Jacob. Featuring: Morag Cross as Verity, Helle & Nephele, Bibi Jacob as Davina & Ino. Tom Morton as Aeëtes and the Messenger. Ciaran Cresswell as Phrixos. Nigel Pilkington as the Newspaper and Market Vendors. Sound and production by Geoff Chong. A big thanks to Nige.
This epic and madcap episode concludes Ariadne's story. It takes us into the heart of the labyrinth and up into the heavens with the constellation of the Northen Crown - Corona Borealis. Written and directed by Bibi Jacob. Featuring: Tom Morton as Silenus, Charlotte Donnelly as Psalakantha, Nigel Pilkington as Dionysus. Bibi Jacob as Ariadne, Rufo Quintavalle as Minos, Ciaran Cresswell as Theseus. Original violin loops by Chloe Dunn Sound and production by Geoff Chong.
Adwin and Raina may be out of time, but Bartholomew is questioning his actions -- and his programming. Can Adwin convince him to help them? Or will Grigory intervene? For Bartholomew, it's a decision that will have an impact for generations to come. This series contains graphic depictions of sex and violence. Listener discretion is advised. Rebel Moon is streaming now on Netflix CREDITS Netflix Podcasts Presents A Wolf At The Door Production: Zack Snyder's The Seneschal Starring Ella Purnell Jason Isaacs Alfred Enoch Naveen Andrews Peter Serafinowicz ----- Also in this episode: Nazneen Contractor Adam Sinclair Maury Sterling Kevin Stidham Jo Troy ----- Created by Zack Snyder Directed by Alex Kemp Produced by Chica Barbosa Production Coordinator: Louise Netz Script Supervisors: Mokotsi Rukundo and Jo Troy Sound Design: Tim West and Beau Milkis Mixed by Beau Milkis Dialogue Editing by Ruge Sun Original Music Composition by Jonathan Sanford Executive Producer: Zack Snyder For Netflix, Executive Producers: David Markowitz and Rae Votta For Wolf at the Door, Executive Producers: Alex Kemp and Winnie Kemp For The Stone Quarry, Executive Producers: Debbie Snyder and Wes Coller. Supervising Producer: Adam Forman Creative Producers: Caitlin Parrish, Erica Weiss and Magdalene Visaggio Recorded in London at Red Light Studios and Sonica Studios, and at Wolf at the Door Studios in Venice, California. Recording Engineers were Matt Bainbridge, Drew Simmonds, Mat Clark and Beau Milkis. Original art by Jared Purrington Special Thanks to John Dryden, Eleanor Mein and the team at Goldhawk Productions in London. Also to Sarah Whitehouse, Bruno Sanchez, and Alyssa Appleton. And the Loop Group: Will Howard, John Hasler, Jenny Bryce, Jessica Carroll, Nigel Pilkington, and Julie Maisey.
Strange things happen one night, in a university observatory as Éloi struggles to stay awake and observe the 617 Patroclus asteroid. Written and directed by KJ Dwyer. With KJ Dwyer as Elio. Mitchell Moreno as Patroclus. Ken Starcevic as Menoetius. Bibi Jacob as the radio announcer. Sound and production by Geoff Chong. The actors recorded at the SACD Podcast Studio, Paris. And in London - with huge thanks to Nigel Pilkington.
It's party time in the sea realm - the Nereid Amphitrite is about to wed Poseidon - but she's having second thoughts. Can her sister Thetis persuade her to tie the knot in time? And what's really behind the ominous rumours the party guests are spreading? This episode was written and directed by Bibi Jacob. Production and sound design by Geoff Chong. It stars: Sharon Mann as Thetis. Elizabeth Wautlet as Amphitrite. Sandy Bernard as Doto. Nigel Pilkington and Morag Cross as the Gossips, Lalli and Kat. Doug Rand as Peleus. Dharni Mistry as the child. Bibi Jacob and Doug Rand as party guests. The actors recorded in studios in both Paris and London. A huge thank you to Marie Prevost at Voice Addict Studio, Paris, for her support. And thank you to Nigel Pilkington for the London recording. And an enormous thank you to the wonderful Underscore Orkestra - https://www.theunderscoreorkestra.com - for permission to use their music. These tracks feature at the party: Swing Gitane; It Ain't Right; Blue Drag; I'se a Muggin.
Creator of "Guilt" and "Eric, Ernie & Me" Neil showcases some other shows that didn't quite make it and shares what it's really like writing for American TV. Clips performed by: Lynsey Murrell, Beth Chalmers, David Monteath, Kate O'Sullivan, Nigel Pilkington and Kenny Blyth. Warning: This episode contains strong language. Neil Forsyth is an author and television writer. In television he is a Royal Television Society Award winner, and has been nominated for a BAFTA, a Writer's Guild Award, and a Broadcast Press Guild Award. He is the author of seven books: Other People's Money, the biography of Scottish credit card fraudster Elliot Castor, two well-received novels and the UK bestselling series of Bob Servant humour titles. Neil adapted his series of books about Bob Servant for BBC Television, with the eponymous role played by Emmy Award winner Brian Cox. The TV show ran for two series, won the Royal Television Society Scotland Award for Comedy and was nominated for the Scottish Comedy BAFTA. Neil has written four SKY Arts Playhouses and his one-off BBC4 drama Eric, Ernie and Me which told the story of Morecambe and Wise writer Eddie Braben was nominated for Best Short Form Drama in the 2018 Broadcast Press Guild Awards. His original 4 part series Guilt starring Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives was broadcast on BBC 2 and BBC Scotland, received a best writer nomination for RTS Awards 2020 and a second series is currently in production. Episode show notes and more details: https://offcutsdrawer.com/neil-forsyth Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer: https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/
Michael Gove humiliating himself at university, a KGB-supplied sex manual and tales of derring-do in warzones around the world from foreign correspondent Luke. Clips performed by: Christopher Kent, Lynsey Murrell and Nigel Pilkington. Luke Harding is an award-winning British foreign correspondent with the Guardian. He has reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow and has also covered wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Libya and Syria. Between 2007 and 2011 he was the Guardian's Moscow bureau chief; the Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first case of its kind since the cold war. He is the author of Mafia State and co-author of WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken (nominated for the Orwell Prize) and The Snowden Files and his latest book The Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West was published earlier this year. Episode show notes: https://offcutsdrawer.com/luke-harding Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer: https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/
A film script written with the young Hugh Grant (yes, that one), a TV show about The Sex Pistols and a romcom based on his real-life relationship - just 3 of the top notch offcuts from the writer/producer of the multi award-winning TV drama Unforgotten. Clips performed by: Toby Longworth, Lizzie Roper, Christopher Kent, Leah Marks, Nigel Pilkington, Emma Clarke and Rachel Atkins. Warning: This episode contains strong language. Chris Lang has created over 100 hours of original prime-time television drama since he cut his teeth on established favourites like Soldier Soldier, Casualty and The Knock more than twenty five years ago. Most recently his projects have included Dark Heart – a 6 part series for ITV, The Hook-Up Plan (known as Plan Coeur in France) – a French 8-part romantic comedy for Netflix and Innocent – a 4 part drama whose 2nd series will start filming later this year. Other acclaimed dramas he's been responsible for include: Amnesia (2004), Torn (2007), A Mother's Son (2012) and Undeniable (2014) which was remade in France in as Quand Je Serai Grande Je Te Tuerai which was broadcast in France in late 2017 to an audience of seven million, But it is for his multi-award winning detective drama Unforgotten, starring Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar, that he is probably best known and after three highly acclaimed series its fourth will hopefully be returning to our screens soon. Episode show notes and more details: https://offcutsdrawer.com/chris-lang Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer: https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/
A lesser known fact about erudite standup comedian Simon is that he used to write for porn magazines. But there's also scientist comedy in the mix plus a little bit of politics and the truth about whether he really is a Brexit comedian. Clips performed by: Nigel Pilkington, Toby Longworth, Beth Chalmers and Keith Wickham. Warning: This episode contains strong language. Simon Evans is an established UK comedian with his own BBC Radio 4 series Simon Evans Goes to Market, and numerous TV appearances to his name which include two appearances on BBC One's Live at the Apollo, one on Michael McIntyre's Roadshow, and a season of Channel 4's Stand Up for the Week. He is also a regular on Radio 4's The News Quiz, and various other panel games, and from 1998 to 2002 wrote and hosted eight series of the news satire, The Way It Is. Episode show notes and more details: https://offcutsdrawer.com/simon-evans Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer: https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/
A world without sex, a rubbish support group, the invisible woman making breakfast in her underwear - just 3 of the scenarios featured in the unfinished or rejected early work from the BBC comedy supremo Bill Dare. Clips performed by: Toby Longworth, Rachel Atkins, Beth Chalmers, Chris Pavlo, Nigel Pilkington and Keith Wickham. Bill is a renowned BBC radio and TV comedy writer and producer. For TV he created shows such as The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Dead Ringers, The Late Edition With Marcus Brigstocke, and I've Never Seen Star Wars. And radio shows he created include The Now Show, The Motion Show and – where also lead writer – Life Death And Sex With Mike And Sue, The Big Town All Stars, Les Kelly's Britain, Brian Gulliver's Travels and The Secret World (Gold Award, Best Comedy, 2014 Radio Academy Awards). He has produced TV series such as Spitting Image (8 series), Loose Talk, the sitcom Mr Charity for BBC2 and the comedy/drama Twisted Tales for BBC3. He wrote the film You're Breaking Up, broadcast on BBC2. Alongside his television and radio work, Bill has written two plays performed at the Edinburgh Festival; as well as co-writing Nina Conti's five-star show, Talk To The Hand, and producing the recent Dead Ringers Live. He has three published novels – Natural Selection, Brian Gulliver's Travels, and his latest: The Billion Pound Lie which was published last year. Episode show notes and more details: https://offcutsdrawer.com/bill-dare Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer: https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/
Arabella rose to fame in The Fast Show asking "Does my bum look big in this?" which she wrote as well as performed, but did you know about her musical based on the life of Tina Turner? Hear a clip of that and various radio, TV and film scripts she penned that didn't get the go ahead.... yet. Clips performed by: Rachel Atkins, Beth Chalmers, Leah Marks, Chris Pavlo, Nigel Pilkington and Keith Wickham. Warning: This episode contains strong language. Arabella is an actress, author and presenter. She is best known as one of the stars of the award winning TV sketch show The Fast Show, which enjoyed five series on BBC2. Her numerous television credits include Two Doors Down which was recently commissioned for a fifth series by BBC2 as well as Pure, Drifters, Doctor Who, Skins, Taking Over the Asylum, and Traffik. She wrote the best-selling books Does My Bum Look Big In This?, The Diary of an Insecure Woman, Onwards and Upwards, Stupid Cupid, an autobiography The Real Me Is Thin, a trilogy for teenagers, and she co-wrote Posh Nosh for the BBC, starring alongside Richard E. Grant. She will shortly continue the tour of her first one-woman show Does My Mum Loom Big In This. Episode show notes and more details: https://offcutsdrawer.com/arabella-weir Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer: https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/
Renowned worldwide for romantic fiction Jenny shares her earliest novel... about rabbits, as well as an unpublished bonkbuster set in the world of nuclear physics and a Dr Who TV series for very small children. Clips performed by: Rachel Atkins, Beth Chalmers, Toby Longworth, Leah Marks, Nigel Pilkington and Keith Wickham. Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including Christmas at the Cupcake Café and The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris. Meet Me at the Cupcake Café won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, as was Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams, which won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013. She also wrote the children's series Polly & The Puffin, and science fiction books and audio dramas for Dr Who under the name JT Colgan and Jenny T Colgan. Episode show notes and more details: https://offcutsdrawer.com/jenny-colgan/ Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer: https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/
A musical adaptation of Macbeth, presented by Nigel Pilkington with music by David Chilton.
Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the fourth programme in the series and today's song is 'Suki over the ocean.'
Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the first programme in the series and today's song is 'The big ship sails.'
Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the second programme in the series and today's song is 'There's a hole in the bottom of the sea.'
Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the third programme in the series and today's song is 'My ship sails over the ocean.'
Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the sixth programme in the series and today's song is 'When I was one I sucked my thumb.'
Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the second of two programmes rehearsing the songs in the series ready for a performance.
Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the first of two programmes rehearsing the songs in the series ready for a performance.
Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the fifth programme in the series and today's song is 'A sailor went to sea, sea, sea.'
Elizabeth gets crafty with clay and receives an unexpected guest. With special thanks to Nigel Pilkington for lending his exceptional vocal talents.