ollowing on from the success of Feeling Kind Of Funny from earlier in the year, we’re very pleased to announce two new mini series for BBC Radio Scotland, Funny Kind Of Family and Funny Kind Of Love. Julia Sutherland will introduce and interview a raft of fabulous comedians who are …
With ‘Lach Chronicles Series 2’, and ‘The John Moloney Show’ already in production for BBC Radio 4, here at Dabster we’re very pleased and proud to announce two brand new commissions for the network. ‘Terry Alderton’s All Crazy Now’ presents us with a unique set of challenges as we attempt …
It seems that everywhere you turn these days, there’s chat about digital pop up radio stations. Maybe it’s the BBC’s upcoming Commonwealth Voices project, maybe it’s Radio 2’s Eurovision station or maybe it’s our favourite project, Radio goNORTH. Well, Radio goNORTH is nearly upon us once again and all of us …
DISCLAIMER: The purpose of this article is to draw your attention to the fact that The Good, The Bad and The Unexpected is on Radio Scotland on Wednesday this week (12th February 2014). It’s a comedy panel show that we made for the BBC that happens to have a lot of …
In 2007 I walked in to the Sidewalk Café on the lower East Side of Manhattan to try and find a man called Lach. I was making a radio show with Dean Friedman for Radio Scotland and one of the episodes was about the Antifolk scene that Lach had invented. …
This article first appeared here: on allmediascotland.com RICHARD Melvin is the director of Dabster Productions and has been since 2006. Dabster is an Edinburgh-based company specialising in making radio shows, online films and podcasts for a wide range of clients, including BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Scotland, Amnesty International and The …
o, I’ve been in London for a couple of days to chat about our recent Radio 4 comedy commissions and to find out a little bit about their plans for commissioning in 2014, it was great to be invited to see the new Broadcasting House on Portland Place. It’s everything …
t was about three years ago when Julia Sutherland asked if I would introduce her on stage at Grape on George Street in Edinburgh. It was her first Fringe show and she needed a compere. I stupidly thought, how hard can it be? Get up there, talk for five minutes …
o, here it is; a new website from Dabster Productions, I hope you like it. We’re going to be adding bits of audio, video clips, photos and words over the next few weeks and beyond. Have a look around and let me know what you think. You don’t really realise …
t’s the post New Year retrospective on the pre New Year sweatbox that was December. 2012 has been filed under“ Work/Templates/MASTERCOPY” for Dabster. We’ve seen pet projects graduate into commissions, we’ve strengthened existing relationships into new markets, delivered programming to be proud of and set up 2013 in a strong position with …
