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Doctor Who goes to a funeral parlour!

31/12/2021

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Slipping in a final bit of news before the end of 2021 - I've written a Doctor Who script for Big Finish starring the ninth Doctor as portrayed by Christopher Eccleston! 

Fond Farewell sees the Doctor invited to the funeral of a celebrated naturalist - but at this intergalactic funeral parlour, the dead can attend their own wake! Despite the setting, no, this isn't a Wooden Overcoats  crossover, but it was a lot of fun to write. I was still doing my AS Levels when Doctor Who came roaring back to our screens, and I instantly fell in love with Eccleston's portrayal. For the first time, it felt like there was a Doctor you might conceivably meet in the street, making the prospect of a trip in the TARDIS that bit more likely!

The story will be released in a volume packaged with a fantastic two-parter by Roy Gill. Nab yourself a copy of The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Old Friends in February 2022, on download, CD, or vinyl. 
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Wooden Overcoats Season 4 - Cast, writers and episode titles!

9/12/2021

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Wooden Overcoats returns for its fourth and final season in 2021, with ten brand new adventures - and now we can give you some details about what's coming up! Beginning with the episodes themselves...

1 - THE BODY SNATCHERS by David K. Barnes - 13th January
2 - OLD SCHOOL FUNN by Ben Cottam from an idea by Rosie Fletcher - 20th January
3 - THE BIG CHEESE by Tom Crowley - 27th January
4 - A MATCH MADE IN PIFFLING by David K. Barnes - 3rd February
5 - DEAD MAN'S CHEST by Sarah Shachat - 10th February

Then we're taking a little break, before coming back with:

6 - RADIO DRAMA by Gabriel Urbina - 3rd March
7 - IN THE BUFF by Molly Beth Morossa - 10th March
8 - ONCE UPON A LONG TIME AGO by David K. Barnes - 17th March
9 - THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN by Alex Lynch and David K. Barnes - 24th March
10 - A FUNN FAREWELL by David K. Barnes - 31st March

And then... Wooden Overcoats will have ended. I'm incredibly stoked to get these ten episodes released next year. I reckon it's our best season yet, and I hope you'll enjoy yourselves as much as we did making it.

I'm also delighted to have worked once again with Ben Cottam, Tom Crowley, Rosie Fletcher, Alex Lynch, Molly Beth Morossa, Sarah Shachat and Gabriel Urbina, some of them writing full length episodes of the series for the first time (having delivered wonderful Funn Fragments earlier in the run)! 


But we're also welcoming five new friends to Piffling Vale:
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Meet actors Lewis Allcock, Bhawna Bhawsar, Lucy Farrett, Eleanor Faye and Amy Rockson, who are joining our usual cast for season 4 - but as to who they're playing, we'll be keeping that a secret for the time being...

Subscribe to Wooden Overcoats today on your favourite podcast app, and come to Piffling Vale on Jan 13th!
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Cry Havoc! - a brand new podcast series

7/9/2021

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This has been in the works for a long time now, but it's finally been announced - I'm creating and head writing a brand new scripted comedy series for the Rusty Quill podcast network, for release in 2022! 

Cry Havoc! (Ask Questions Later) will take you back to ancient Roman Italy in 42 BC and the ultimate popularity contest between military superstar Mark Antony and control freak Gaius Octavian Caesar. They can't stand each other, which is a big, big problem - because now they're running the country together. Facing famine, plague, pirates, and a few thousand rowdy soldiers ready to riot unless they get paid, Mark and Gaius don't know where to start. And with things on the verge of collapse, the cool and calculating Cleopatra of Egypt is planning to swoop in and take power for herself...

This epic comedy of deadly politics and massive mistakes takes one of the most turbulent periods in Roman history and gives it a The Thick Of It / Veep style spin, blended with the eccentric stylings of Wooden Overcoats. It's been a long-held dream to make a series like this, and I'm glad to be doing it with Rusty Quill (The Magnus Archives, Outliers, Stellar Firma), one of the best purveyors of independent podcasts in the UK today. I'm also thrilled to be working with Amani Zardoe, an accomplished and frequently award nominated filmmaker who'll be directing the series - and we've many more creative personnel to announce in the coming months.

For further news on this series as it develops, do follow @TheRustyQuill on Twitter and their other platforms.

​It looks as if 2022 will be a busy year for me, as the fourth and final season of Wooden Overcoats is due to be released in January! We're recording these episodes over the next couple of weeks (fingers crossed), and we greatly enjoyed debuting some new Season 4 material at the London Podcast Festival. If you missed it, you can still nab a ticket for the recorded stream until Saturday 11th September.
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London Podcast Festival 2021

25/8/2021

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Having not been able to perform our live shows since 2019, Wooden Overcoats is back at Kings Place for the London Podcast Festival on Sunday 5th September! 

We'll be doing two of our favourite episodes in front of a live audience, along with a special sneak preview of our upcoming fourth season - material that otherwise won't be available until January 2022! You can book tickets for our show and a host of other audio drama performances right here at Kings Place.

And if you can't make it to London, we've got you covered: we'll be doing a livestream of the show for the very first time, so you can watch it anywhere around the world! Book for the streaming event and you'll have seven days to watch the show. Enjoy yourselves!
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Audible Accelerator Singapore

21/5/2021

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In December 2020, Audible approached me to work on their Accelerator programme, working with writers and producers in Singapore to develop ten new series and pilots. This week, all ten have launched!

Many of the these creatives were new to audio, and so I was asked to deliver workshops on adapting existing skills for a non-visual medium. The following month, I was paired up with ten production teams to develop their ideas, scripts and series bibles. All of the teams delivered exciting proposals and were a joy to work with - I was particularly happy to see a range of genres and styles, including three very different romantic comedies!

BAREFOOT IN BENGAL by Abhi Kumar
THE DANCE OF FEAR & VULNERABILITY by James Leong
THE GOLDEN KNOT by Elena Yeo
HAPPY ENDINGS by Sara Yang, Lina Yeh, Su Ching Teh & Mary Tay
LIFE EXCHANGE by Haresh Tilani
LOVE SHOP by Mervyn Yap & Kenny Tan
POSSESSION by Chi-Ren Choong
SINGAPORE SIX by S. Mickey Lin
THERAPY Z by Karl Gan
VIRTUAL INSANITY by Raven Lim & Wayne Rée

Covering comedy, drama, historical, horror, romance, sci-fi, thriller, and even self-help, these ten pilots are now available to download direct from Audible. If you enjoyed them, leave your feedback! Your review might even help the show to get commissioned for a full series!

And click here for more information on the Accelerator programme and its writers.


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Mortem podcast - Honoured at the Webby Awards

21/4/2021

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Mortem & host Carla Valentine
The BBC Sounds & Whistledown podcast 'MORTEM' has been named a Webby Honoree at the 25th Annual Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. 

Host Carla Valentine takes you into her mortuary to solve grisly cases of identity and murder using the latest forensic methods... With three cases over nine episodes, this podcast was released last year, written by Nina Millns and script edited by me. It was a ridiculously fun show to work on and I'm chuffed to see it receiving a nudge from the Webby Awards!

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Audie Awards 2021 - Winner

23/3/2021

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Further to being nominated for an Audie Award, I'm chuffed to say that Doctor Who: Stranded has WON the Audie Award for Best Audio Drama! My own special thanks go to script editor Matt Fitton, director Ken Bentley, and producer David Richardson for allowing me to play with their Doctor Who toys!

STRANDED is available on CD and download from Big Finish Productions
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Eric Bana takes a trip to The Orchard for Audible

4/3/2021

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Eric Bana in 2020's The Dry
Announced yesterday, Eric Bana stars in a new crime drama for Audible, which I script edited last year. Written by Mike Cowap & Mike Jones, The Orchard is a 13-episode mystery about a tired and hollowed-out detective drawn to the apparent suicide of a teenaged boy in the grounds of the Nevermoor school for girls. Obstructed by the school's teachers, he becomes convinced that a trio of manipulative star pupils are at the centre of the mystery - but nothing can prepare him for the uncanny forces at work within the school...

Directed by Bharat Nalluri (Spooks, Life on Mars, The Man Who Invented Christmas), this chilling drama will be released on Audible platforms later in 2021. Very glad to have been involved in this project, helping to shape the story from first drafts to the final recorded scripts!
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Audie Awards 2021

23/2/2021

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​I've been nominated for an Audie Award! 

Chuffed to share this with the rest of the gang behind Doctor Who: Stranded, including fellow writers Matt Fitton, John Dorney and Lisa McMullin.

The Audie Awards are probably the most lauded awards in audiobooks & spoken word entertainment, so to get nominated for Best Audio Drama in 2021 is a very happy state of affairs indeed! 
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Unseen: Valentine's Day with a touch of Wodehouse...

19/2/2021

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The urban fantasy series Unseen (by the fine folks behind the celebrated Wolf 359) gave the podcast world a much needed dose of magic throughout the final months of 2020. Their stories involved dragons, detectives, people that trade in memories, and paintings that can eat you, all performed by some of the best acting talent in the audio drama space. 

Having script edited the series, I was thrilled to write a guest episode - the Unseen Valentine's Day Special! Having rarely dabbled in romance before, I decided to take inspiration from one of my favourite authors, P. G. Wodehouse, and write a slapstick adventure in which our protagonist finds love almost by accident. 

'How Dudley Took the Plunge' allowed me to write comic prose for the first time in an age, and it's brought to life by actor Leo Wan as Dudley Carmichael: a harpy from a long line of harpies, enmeshed in a marriage plot against his will, and battling the machinations of his formidable Grandmother Winifred. 

Though Valentine's Day has been and gone, you can still enjoy this episode by searching and subscribing to Unseen on iTunes, Spotify, and wherever else you get your podcasts, or else listen to it right here. Recording scripts and transcripts are also available on the Unseen website.
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