HEY! WHY IS THE SHARK SUDDENLY AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE!

Hey is for horses.

This shark is the universal symbol of change, and it indicates that, very soon, unless the legal beagles get their whiskers in a twist, Listen & Often, a weekly podcast for fans of brand new old school radio comedy, will be going live.

Why are we doing it?

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 what we write is scripted comedy. Which is also brilliant. It’s transported generations of listeners into weird and wonderful worlds.

But scripted comedy takes too long to write and costs too much to make for it to work as a long-running weekly podcast.

Except, thanks to Tall Tales we’ve got a unique archive of material: the favourite secret projects of a collection of comedy writers, some of whom you probably know, some of whom you probably don’t. And a variety of very cool long-dreamed-of special projects.

We are combining a) that archive with b) 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.