The Offcuts Drawer - Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas

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Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas. Writing tips, truths & lessons learned from top writers’ greatest failures. Screenwriters, authors, novelists & playwrights share their rejected scripts, unfinished stories, abandoned chapters & creative misfires. Clips performed by actors and unpacked in a warm and funny interview about craft, creativity & emotional survival with host Laura Shavin.

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The Offcuts Drawer - Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas

Episodes (42)

Dec 14, 2025 Charlie Higson Pt 2 - Screenwriter, Novelist & Actor
Dec 7, 2025 Charlie Higson Pt 1 - Screenwriter, Novelist & Actor
Nov 23, 2025 Jonathan Lynn - Screenwriter, Director & Playwright

The Offcuts Drawer - Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas

Dec 14, 2025
54¼ minutes
75 MB

This is part 2 of my interview with Charlie and in this episode his offcuts include an episode of Dr Who, a horror version of a Disney cartoon classic and a black comedy film written for some of the regulars in the Fast Show. CAST: Nigel Pilkington, Kenny Blyth, Noni Lewis, Christopher Kent, Shash Hira, Keith Wickham, Beth Chalmers Charlie Higson has worked across comedy, drama and fiction for more than three decades. He co-created and performed in The Fast Show, has written for and produced a range of television series, and is the author of...

The Offcuts Drawer - Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas

Charlie Higson Pt 2 - Screenwriter, Novelist & Actor

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