{"id":1338,"date":"2005-12-25T10:04:47","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T10:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/12\/ed_reardons_wee_1\/"},"modified":"2005-12-25T10:04:47","modified_gmt":"2005-12-25T10:04:47","slug":"ed_reardons_wee_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/ed_reardons_wee_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Reardon&#8217;s Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0743276337&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nFirst of all, if you haven&#8217;t already heard it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/comedy\/edreardon.shtml\">dash over<\/a> right now to the BBC Radio Player and listen to last Wednesday&#8217;s first episode of the second series of Ed Reardon&#8217;s Week.<br \/>\nEd Reardon is quite the funniest creation I&#8217;ve heard (or seen) in some time; a writer by trade, although he has trouble making ends meet. He did once write an episode of Tenko, and had his first novel made into a blockbuster film by his friend Jaz. But now times are tough, and in between writing books to order like Pet Peeves or Jane Seymour&#8217;s Household Hints, he&#8217;s struggling to turn in scripts for Holby City, or write The Old Lock Keeper&#8217;s column for his local free newspaper.<br \/>\nThis book is basically the first series of the Radio 4 comedy. Quite why Radio 4 insisted on broadcasting it at 11.30am rather than the somewhat better 6.30pm slot is a question I don&#8217;t entirely understand. It&#8217;ll certainly get a 6.30pm repeat, but it deserves the bigger audience from the outset.<br \/>\nEd is a fantastic creation, lovingly crafted. He lives with his cat, Elgar, and has a family from a previous marriage that seems a little estranged. He plays in a jazz band with his old mucker Jaz, even though he&#8217;s insanely jealous of the big-time director who bastardised his novel for a movie tear-jerker.<br \/>\nSadly BBC Audio haven&#8217;t seen fit to release the first series on CD, so you&#8217;ll, er, just have to find someone who might have some mp3s if you want to hear the first series.<br \/>\nAnd in the meantime, get listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/comedy\/edreardon.shtml\">second series<\/a> &#8211; Wednesdays at 11.30am, Radio 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, if you haven&#8217;t already heard it, dash over right now to the BBC Radio Player and listen to last Wednesday&#8217;s first episode of the second series of Ed Reardon&#8217;s Week. Ed Reardon is quite the funniest creation I&#8217;ve heard (or seen) in some time; a writer by trade, although he has trouble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}