HEY! WHY IS THE SHARK SUDDENLY AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE (UNLESS I AM LOOKING AT THIS ON A MOBILE PHONE IN WHICH CASE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!)!

Hey is for horses.

This inflatable 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 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.