Local press you may have seen, yep its true. Looks like we just missed out again eh

Two time loser

For the second time in succession victory has eluded local writer and radio presenter Mike Dawson. In the summer of 2007 he submitted a radio play script to Channel Fours “The radio plays the thing” competition and was selected in the final eight and he was invited down to Londons Channel Four headquarters for a day of expert tuition. All the finalists were then required to resubmit their scripts where after two would be chosen for production. Mike was unlucky not to go through to the final. “Despite this I was really encouraged and had a great day down at Channel Four.” He said “It was still great to get an endorsement from some of the best radio writers in the business”. After his brush with success he proceeded to produce his radio play independently with the help of actors from the Knutsford Little Theatre.
Since then Mike has been informed that once more he has been shortlisted in another Channel Four competition without reaching the final. The PILOT competition required the entrants to produce an outline for a six-part T.V. drama for the T.V. channel. Despite 1200 hundred entries Mike has yet again found himself in the final shortlist of just 10 scripts. When asked if he was disheartened Mike responded “Absolutely not. Quite the opposite to be honest, to reach the final in the only two writing competitions I have entered is really encouraging. I have a hat full of ideas and will continue to write and may now start to send some of my work to commissioning editors”

Not to worry the demo version is on our old podcast but here it is once more.. Enjoy

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George Bush is currently on a peace crusade in the Middle East calling for an end to occupation by Isreal and all parties to come to the table. Lest we forget the stance he took with our very own Tony Blair when Isreal was bombing civilian targets and infastructure in the Lebanon. Noting that one miltary jet killed two young boys, in the aftermath the states pledged 30 million dollars in aid. 15 million short of the cost of just one of the 29 jets sold to Isreal by them. Ironic indeed. Mike Dawson attempted to interview Marc Sirois from the heart of Beruit in the middle of the conflict but telephones were down. The interview was conducted by email. Below is a transcript of that email as well as some of the show audio.

Transcript of interview

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Yep its another week off air.  Due to circumstances within our control we will not be on air again this Sunday.  We will also be off air on Sunday the 20th January.  We will be starting our new year shows on sunday the 27th at 11am as usual.  In the meantime I will be continuing to upgrade the website and monitoring/adding to the new blog.  Dont forget we are leaving the comments section open so you can blog at will.

Keep in touch and see thee soon.

Love C.E.B XX

We are back with a brand new website and of course a brand new blog/podcast.  We have decided to bring everything together here so you can keep upto date with show news and guests.  There may well be more endless spouting too from myself Mike Dawson and my trusty side chimp Cornelius E Butross.  This new blog also allows you to comment without registering which means we can monitor your comments live on the show if we want.  It also means you can listen again to interviews and make comments too.  There is also an online player so you can play audio/video from here as well as the usual subscribe-able podcast.  Lots more podcasts in future featuring our guests past and present.  If you are a registered podcaster please remember to update your feed to this new address.  All the old stuff will be available for the forseeable future.