NEWS UPDATE

1. We’re doing a rehearsed reading of Long Live the Post Horn! on May 16th-17th. Ellinor does PR and she’s panicking that her whole life is just following a series of meaningless templates. But then she gets a job working for the postal union and suddenly the templates don’t work. And yet, for some reason, the world starts to seem bigger…

It’s based on a beautiful and heartbreaking novel and, as you would imagine, Susannah Pearse’s songs are both incredible and hilarious.

2. Listen & Often, a weekly podcast for fans of brand new old school radio comedy, will very soon be going live. We have set up a limited company because it is a very limited company.

Why very soon, rather than already?

a) Because the above has had some impact on the time available (we haven’t written Long Live the Post Horn! yet).

b) Because of our technical team. When brought in to organise technical podcast recording details called they made many references to an ‘obsolete’ computer. We prefer the term ‘artisanal’.

But we really are nearly there. We haven’t sent emails to our various distribution lists out of an excess of not wanting to plague people with too many emails.

3. Why are you making a podcast?

In a nutshell: we love podcasts - they’re brilliant, they’ve shaken up the audio landscape, and long-running shows build a fantastic rapport with their audience. They tend to be chatty and unprepared.

But we write scripted comedy. Which is also brilliant. It has transported generations of listeners into weird and wonderful aural worlds.

But scripted comedy takes ages to write. That makes it hard to square with an open-ended weekly podcast.

Except, what’s this, some kind of a miraculous collision of the spheres? Yes.

Thanks to more than fifteen years of Tall Tales we’ve got a unique archive of material: the favourite secret projects of a collection of comedy writers, some of whom you may know, some of whom you probably don’t. And we are also developing a small handful of very cool special projects.

Our plan is to combine a) our archive with b) some new material and c) a low-tech - let’s say ‘podcasty’ - production style, via d) a business model that we hope will let us build the kind of community that podcasting and audio comedy naturally share.

If you are already on the Tall Tales distribution list, you will get an email telling you how to subscribe.

If you are not on the list but would like to be, please email us on talltalesnight@gmail.com.