Desperate Fishwives – Radio Scotland- Series 1
Recorded at Aberdeen Arts Centre 2007
‘You made my mum laugh, which is harder than you might think.’
– Kenny McBride
Much to our delight and surprise, someone working at the BBC’s Beechgrove studio in Aberdeen had put the word out to HQ that there was something worth seeing in the frozen North. So it was that we met with Radio Scotland comedy producer, Margaret-Anne Docherty, who’d journeyed up from Glasgow to see Desperate Fishwives. Happily, she liked what she saw, (particularly the title!) and proposed a series. “Um…Ok.” We decisively replied, and so began the process of sorting out which sketches would work for radio and for a nationwide audience. Then we wrote some new stuff, just to be on the safe side… We recorded the shows at our old stamping ground, the Aberdeen Arts Centre on the 22nd and 23rd of June, and Series 1 was broadcast by BBC Radio Scotland on Saturdays at 12.00 noon starting on the 1st September.
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Waiting for the green light…
Episode 1 BBC Radio Scotland 12:05 01/09/2007
Episode 2 BBC Radio Scotland 12:05 08/09/2007
Episode 3 BBC Radio Scotland 12:05 22/09/2007
Episode 4 BBC Radio Scotland 12:05 06/10/2007
After the first series aired, we had literally several messages of lukewarm encouragement. However, the one we enjoyed the most came from Jeff Zycinski, the head of BBC Radio Scotland who said, in an interview with the Times, “we have been inundated with requests for a new series of Desperate Fishwives, so we must be doing something right.”
That’ll do for us!
For copyright reasons, we cant post any clips from the radio shows, but ‘Archie & Davie on The Moosie’ and ‘Up my Close – In Torry’ are up on Youtube, so fill your boots!
There’s more info about all our radio output on the Desperate Fishwives BBC micro-site.
Cast & Production Team
Cast
Written by
Produced by
- Margaret-Anne Docherty
Production Assistant
- Shaun MacDonald
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