The Reject Pile Podcast
The Reject Pile Podcast
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Giving a second chance to works of art or entertainment that have been rejected. lredwards.substack.com
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The podcast focuses on the theme of giving second chances to rejected creative works, highlighting topics such as the development journey of scripts, the comedy and drama genres, and the emotional impact of rejection in the creative process. Examples include the performed scripts 'PC Who' and 'Brand New', performed by cast members and discussed in detail.
Giving a second chance to works of art or entertainment that have been rejected.
The Reject Pile returns for its second episode which focuses on material rejected from the 30th series of BBC Radio Scotland’s open door topical panel show Breaking the News in early 2025.
Joining Luke Edwards are Ellie Hayward and Dan Sweryt; two people who are not only seasoned contributors to Breaking the News in their own right, but are also hosts of a training course designed to help aspiring writers gain their first professional writing credit on the show.
You can find out more about the course that Ellie and Dan run with Dave Cohen at https://www.davecohen.org.uk/learn-to-write-comedy/comedy-writing-courses/.
You can also find Ellie on X at https://x.com/elliehay and Dan on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/swerytd.bsky.social or X at https://x.com/swerytd.
Material was submitted by:
– Mike Cooper, who you can find on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/mikecooperrp.bsky.social;
– James Docherty, who is on Threads at https://www.threads.com/@j_s_docherty, Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/j_s_docherty and Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/jsdocherty.bsky.social;
– Mike Grace, whose portfolio you can find at https://clippings.me/takingthemike;
– Nik Ilukkumbere, who you can follow on X at https://x.com/gichowdotcom, Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/gichowdotcom/ and Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/gichowdotcom.bsky.social.
Helping Luke with performing the submitted material were Rob Stephenson and Kevin Welch.
You can hear Breaking the News at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b066zypj and The Skewer, which we also discuss in the episode, at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000czyb. The page that Dan mentions regarding submitting to The Skewer is available here: https://weareunusual.net/skewer-contributor-guide.
Find The Reject Pile’s social links at https://linktr.ee/RejectPilePod and host Luke Edwards’ at https://linktr.ee/ThatLukeEdwards.
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