Dear BBC

Please find enclosed a copy of my script for the pilot episode of a thirty minute radio sitcom.

I am inspired by humour in language, every day encounters with the ironic and absurd, and general silliness. I recognise all of these elements in the classic BBC comedies of the 60's and 70's. Despite not being old enough to remember the likes of Dad's Army, Are You Being Served, The Morecambe and Wise Show, and Sykes when they first appeared on television, I find myself feeling nostalgic for that particular era in light entertainment. It was a time when comedy writing was intelligent without being exclusive and silly without being infantile. Although fashions have changed in television comedy, I think this kind of sitcom will always find a radio audience.

I hope you will consider reading my script. I feel passionately about comedy writing and will forever be entertained by those who write it so well.


And then it was gone, out into the ether, winging its way to the BBC, amateur inconsistencies and all. Fingers crossed...