NEWS UPDATE

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

2. Why soon, rather than already?

a) Because the lovely Gatehouse Theatre are keen for our associated (and even more limited) live production arm to organise a rehearsed reading of Long Live the Post Horn! on May 16th-17th, and this has had some impact on the time available (we haven’t written Long Live the Post Horn! yet).

b) Because of what our technical team, when brought in to organise technical podcast recording details called an ‘obsolete’ computer. We prefer the term ‘limited’.

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 what we write is 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.