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Applications for these roles have now closed. Dabster Productions is an independent production company, based in Edinburgh. We make radio shows, podcasts, online films and other bits and bobs for all sorts of interesting clients. We are looking for a couple of enthusiastic people to join our company this summer. …
Busy times at Dabster Productions, and we’d love you to hear all about it. The best way to keep up to date with all of our broadcasts, recordings, field trips and parties is to sign up to the Dabster Newsletter. This month there’s details of The John Moloney Show, The …
The summer is here. The man on the radio said so. I was that man on the radio, as a presenter on XFM, so it must be true – right? Traditionally in radioland, everything shuts down for Xmas and then nothing happens for two months. No one can be bothered, …
Sitcoms – the defining shared televisual experiences of our youth and the fabric of our very lives!! Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Father Ted, I’m Alan Partridge, The Vicar of Dibley, Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld… Just some of my favourite TV shows EVER and all of them sitcoms. I’m …
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 …
Busy times at Dabster Towers, and indeed the Dabster Colonies too. We’re spending plenty of time on the road for our various projects at the moment. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, London, Fife..and I don’t know if Richard mentioned he was doing a 10K.. The most prominent project that I’m working on …
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 …
The summer of 2014 is set to be gargantuan! Radio GoNorth followed by The Commonwealth Games and Festival 2014 on our doorstep, not to mention Dabster’s usual foray into the Edinburgh Fringe. But before all that, the Radio 1 Big Weekend circus rolls into town. Aside from reaching for the …
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 …
love it when a plan comes together. In July 2013, I visited San Francisco and New York on the last leg of a round the world tour that began in India and ended in the USA. This luckily coincided with us making the final episode of The Lach Chronicles for …
