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We’ve written a play
When we met studying drama, we made a vow that we would write and perform a comedy together… some time very soon… once we had a bit of financial security… and had found somewhere to live… That was 1995. Cut to 2026 and our youthful little dream is finally coming true....
BRAND NEW PODCAST
So this is happening. I’ve started a podcast with the extraordinary Tom Turner and Dave Baird (See Anything 4 U blog) It’s called The Failing Writers Podcast, a sort of self-help group to encourage each other along the long and tortuous road from naive...
Jon Rand’s Short Stories
25 mins: https://soundcloud.com/rand-made/the-fires-of-cadiz 10 mins: https://soundcloud.com/rand-made/the-thaw Spending around 5 hours a day on a train to London, 3 days a week over the last however-many-years has its downsides. The backache. The...
New Sitcom!
My unfairly talented VO / writer friend Dave Baird has written and is starring in a new sitcom podcast called Anything 4 U, with another of my good mates, the brilliant Tom Turner starring alongside as his feckless sidekick, Bobby. And yes, yet another of my...
Scopophobia!
VOX 2017 was gonna be great, meeting with producer pals, many for the first time! No snatched conversations over ISDN, we’d have a whole night to swap stories, chew the fat, put the world to rights… Yay! What joy. But you see, the thing is, in the last 3 years, I seem...
What is this witchcraft? And who must we burn?
We all saw it. We, the entire voiceover community. We, being the relevant word here, as I suspect a little communal trickle was expelled across the ISDN network. I’m talking about that YouTube clip, promoting the natty bit of software that takes your recorded voice...
I know how the world will end!
(If you hate spoilers look away now) Last Thursday I was holed up for several hours in a small windowless cell reading out-loud the diverse and various ways our planet will cease to exist. Yeah I have the dubious pleasure of voicing not one but two documentary series...
Oh Katie, what have we done to our children?
They’re growing up in a house where it’s normal to go down into the cellar, squeeze into a tiny, darkened room, and talk to yourself, sometimes for hours at a time. How can this end well? Yesterday our eldest Theo said, maybe he’d be a voice over when he’s older. ...