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, …
We Need to Talk…
‘m so excited that today you will finally get the chance to hear the first episode of Funny Kind of Love, broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland at 13.32! It really has been a labour of love making this show – a follow up to Feeling Kind of Funny broadcast earlier …
It’s a Funny Kind of Life
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 …
Everybody Loves Sitcoms
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 …
Terry Alderton and Julia Sutherland on BBC Radio 4
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 …
Dabster at the Radio 1 Academy
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 …
Women In Comedy: Just Not Funny Anymore.
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 …
Marijuana at BBC Radio 4
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 …
A Journey of Firsts
’m en-route to London for work with the Pleasance and the BBC, before doing the classic run-around-not-really-seeing-anyone-for-any-length-of-time friends visit. Luckily, I was given a free upgrade to 1st class on the train to our southern ruler’s utopia. It’s the first time I’ve ‘turned left’ on a train, in fact I’m struggling to …
Radio goNORTH
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 …










