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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • The Life & Work of Roger Gregg – Mad Scientists Bonus Episode

    The Life & Work of Roger Gregg – Mad Scientists Bonus Episode

    Roger Gregg is a dramatist, poet, musician, actor and performer. Over a long career on radio and theatre, he’s had dozens of plays performed all over the world, and written and recorded numerous radio dramas as ‘Crazy Dog Audio Theatre‘. Today Roger continues to record and perform, with his ‘Bee Loud Glade Cabaret’. Bee Loud… Read more

  • 2014 A Year in Review – You’re Doing It Wrong (EP2)

    A look back on what I’ve been up to in 2014. This is the year I wrote my first stage plays, finished an award winning documentary series ‘Mad Scientists of Music‘, and released my latest radio sitcom ‘Choices‘. I’ve also been lucky enough to make a bunch of podcasts with super smart rising talent James… Read more

  • American Gothic S01E02 – Acquired Taste – Episode 2

    What is it? A new podcast, in the style of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 or RiffTrax. James Van De Waal and Gareth Stack sit down and riff (in the style of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 or RiffTrax) over sucky television. How it works Each episode we watch an episode of an old TV show, and… Read more

  • American Gothic S01E01 – Acquired Taste – Episode 1

    This is a new show, an experiment if you like. James Van De Waal and Gareth Stack sit down and riff (in the style of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 or RiffTrax) over sucky television. Here’s how it works: Each episode we watch an episode of an old TV show, and insult it in real time.… Read more

  • You’re Doing it Wrong – An Introduction

    A podcast journal, questioning the creative life. I delayed posting this for a long time. It was recorded at a moment when I felt very emotionally vulnerable. A time when I was questioning the assumptions underlying the life I’ve chosen – the penurious road of the struggling writer. Maybe the open vein is the best… Read more

  • The Cripple of Inishmaan – Episode 14 – Reading Plays

    Martin McDonagh’s 1996 play ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ is the first in a loosely defined and as yet unfinished Aran Island Trilogy. Set on the most banal of the islands, Inish Maan, in the early 1930s, the play is a violently farcical examination of family, social exclusion and the noble lie. Cripple of Inishmaan was… Read more