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It’s very difficult to make a living doing something you love. Most people can’t, and end up getting a day job to subsidise their passion. The relentless drudgery of the ordinary must eventually drag them down. I suppose that’s why they end up shaking their fist in the air, shouting …
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 day four here in Inverness and the sun has gone, a local man asked me this morning if I’d had a good summer. What! Surely it’s not all over already? The training this morning started with a few bleary eyes after our night out on the tiles yesterday. We …
