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Breaking a Leg
Oliver Double
21 episodes
9 months ago
On 6th December 2015 at 7.30pm at the Gulbenkian Theatre Canterbury, I'm going to be performing a brand new full-length stand-up comedy show called Break a Leg, about the experiences I've had this year recovering from a broken femur. There'll be no previews, so I'll be finding out whether the material works at the same time as the audience does. If I crash and burn, it'll be a long night for everybody. I thought it might be quite interesting to make a podcast about the process I'm going through to make the show while I'm doing it. The podcast will conclude with recordings of the actual show. What will that be like? Nobody knows! Maybe there'll even be a twist ending. If you want to come and see the show live, you can get tickets here: http://www.thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/theatre/2015/December/2015-12-06-oliver-double.html
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On 6th December 2015 at 7.30pm at the Gulbenkian Theatre Canterbury, I'm going to be performing a brand new full-length stand-up comedy show called Break a Leg, about the experiences I've had this year recovering from a broken femur. There'll be no previews, so I'll be finding out whether the material works at the same time as the audience does. If I crash and burn, it'll be a long night for everybody. I thought it might be quite interesting to make a podcast about the process I'm going through to make the show while I'm doing it. The podcast will conclude with recordings of the actual show. What will that be like? Nobody knows! Maybe there'll even be a twist ending. If you want to come and see the show live, you can get tickets here: http://www.thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/theatre/2015/December/2015-12-06-oliver-double.html
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Episodes (20/21)
Breaking a Leg
Episode 21 Conference Paper
Two months after the show, here's a follow-up episode, in which you can hear a recording of a conference paper I gave at the University of Kent on 14 January 2016.
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9 years ago
26 minutes 4 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 20 Second Half
An audio recording of the second half of my show, performed at the Gulbenkian, Canterbury on 6th December 2015. For the first half, see the previous episode of this podcast. A video of the show should be posted online some time in January, so you may want to wait for that instead
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9 years ago
43 minutes 22 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 19 First Half
An audio recording of the first half of my show, performed at the Gulbenkian, Canterbury on 6th December 2015. The second half will follow in the next episode. A video of the show should be posted online some time in January, so you may want to wait for that instead.
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9 years ago
56 minutes 51 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 18 After the Show
So, the show happened. This episode was recorded immediately before the show started, at the interval and two days afterwards. So now you can find out how it all went. How many people came to see it? Did they enjoy it? And at the end of it all, did I think the months of work that had gone into it were worth it?
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9 years ago
38 minutes 4 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 17 Last Leg
The final episode before I perform the show itself, this features various bits of audio from the few days building up to the final event. There's a tiny snatch of rehearsal footage, plus bits of reflection recorded at various times, and even snatches from an appearance on BBC Radio Kent talking to Lembit Opik. It's a right old sound collage.
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9 years ago
30 minutes 4 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 16 Poster
Here I talk about the poster for the show. In the process, I touch on such issues as visual design, digital vs. analogue, hand-drawn lettering vs. chunky sans serif fonts, portrait vs. landscape, and the general concept of visual design in stand-up comedy. In the course of all this, there's a passing mention of Ross Noble.
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9 years ago
8 minutes 25 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 15 Half Century Man
Here I talk about - and play - the song that will close the show. It's a serious song rather than a comedy number, and as such it's pretty much the only bit of actual material that I'm happy to give away here before I perform the show.
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9 years ago
7 minutes 5 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 14 That Difficult Phase
Here I talk about the emotional effects of struggling to put together a new full-length stand-up show. And I refer to a bit of academic research published nearly 40 years ago, featuring an interview with a successful comedy writer who describes pretty much exactly what I'm going through right now.
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9 years ago
13 minutes

Breaking a Leg
Episode 13: Theme Tune
I've recorded a theme tune for my upcoming stand-up show BREAK A LEG (at the Gulbenkian, Canterbury on 6th December). In this episode, I explain why I've recorded a theme tune, and why I think it's going to make an important contribution to the start of the show. AND I PLAY YOU THE ACTUAL FREAKIN' THEME TUNE! Check it out, it rocks!
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9 years ago
9 minutes 28 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 12: Rehearsing
I finally get down to it and spend an entire day rehearsing the show. But what are the pros and cons of rehearsing stand-up comedy? Have a listen, and I'll tell you my thoughts on the subject. Meanwhile, it's less than three weeks until I perform my show. Scary!
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9 years ago
13 minutes 37 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 11 Jacqui
In this double length episode, I interview my wife Jacqui about the femur-shattering accident that inspired my upcoming stand-up show, to be performed at the Gulbenkian, Canterbury on 6th December. I discover that Jacqui remembers things about my experiences that I'd forgotten.
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10 years ago
34 minutes

Breaking a Leg
Episode 10 - Why Document?
What's the point of trying to document something as immediate and ephemeral as stand-up? And why might it be interesting to listen to a podcast about the process of making a new stand-up show? Find out here!
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10 years ago
15 minutes 31 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 09: Writing Weekend
Here I spend pretty much an entire weekend trying to write my upcoming stand-up show, Break a Leg. Will I finish it? Listen and find out!
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10 years ago
17 minutes 7 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 08: Tom
Here I interview my younger son, Tom, about the events surrounding my femur-smashing tumble on the pavement which inspired my upcoming stand-up show, Break a Leg.
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10 years ago
11 minutes 53 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 07 Monkeyshine Match Fitness
Here I discuss how I'm using the fact that I compere our student comedy night, Monkeyshine, in order to get up to match fitness for my big stand-up show, Break a Leg. WARNING: CONTAINS LIVE AUDIO OF ME PERFORMING VARIABLE QUALITY STAND-UP.
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10 years ago
14 minutes 39 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 06 First Rehearsal
Here I go into the rehearsal room for the first time and remember that it's practically impossible to rehearse stand-up comedy. I spend ages copying notes from my notebook onto piece of A3 paper trying to create an arc for the show. Then I mess about for a bit trying to find a voice for a nice old man who never did me any harm, in order to mock him for comedy purposes. Time well spent? You be the judge.
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10 years ago
13 minutes 40 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Breaking a Leg, episode 05
In this episode, I interview my 18-year-old son Joe about his perspectives on my femur-fracturing accident. He says some pretty funny things along the way, so hopefully some of this will end up in the stand-up show I'm going to perform about the whole business.
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10 years ago
22 minutes 43 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Breaking a Leg episode 04
Here I tell you about a prop I've bought for the show. It's called a Super Scanner, and it detects metal. But where is the metal it will detect? And what is the super-funny gag I'm going to use it for? Maybe even I don't know that yet...
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10 years ago
5 minutes 27 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 03 - Notebook
Here I take you through the notebook which contains most of the ideas for my upcoming full-length stand-up show, Breaking a Leg. I also rattle the information leaflet containing the terrifying potential side effects of a drug I was recently prescribed.
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10 years ago
11 minutes 34 seconds

Breaking a Leg
Episode 2: Hitting the Facebook Wall
10 years ago
18 minutes 31 seconds

Breaking a Leg
On 6th December 2015 at 7.30pm at the Gulbenkian Theatre Canterbury, I'm going to be performing a brand new full-length stand-up comedy show called Break a Leg, about the experiences I've had this year recovering from a broken femur. There'll be no previews, so I'll be finding out whether the material works at the same time as the audience does. If I crash and burn, it'll be a long night for everybody. I thought it might be quite interesting to make a podcast about the process I'm going through to make the show while I'm doing it. The podcast will conclude with recordings of the actual show. What will that be like? Nobody knows! Maybe there'll even be a twist ending. If you want to come and see the show live, you can get tickets here: http://www.thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/theatre/2015/December/2015-12-06-oliver-double.html