No Junk, All Joy*

We are professional comedy writers who love old school radio comedy of the kind that Radio 4 still makes, but not as much as it once did. From our long-running try-outs, we all have material we think is broadcast-quality and serious, experienced producers agree with us. We want to make it.

Listen & Often is how we hope to build a community who want to help us do just that. Is that a virtuous circle?** If it isn’t, then I don’t want to know what is.

The most common question we get asked is: why are you going for a subscriber model? Well, a podcast which is based on carefully written contributions by many people simply doesn’t work with an ad-based model. Or to be more accurate, but it only works on a massive and implausible scale.

However, the Substack/Patreon model is different. It’s about building a community who like a specific thing and who know that it can only exist if they buy into it. We hope you want to be part of it.

*We looked up successful online advertising slogans and this was the top one. It was for baby food.

**Audio comedy has been a great British training ground for writing and acting talent. Writers, especially, are having to learn their trade without being paid and that excludes many people from the industry’s ground-floor. All writers in our collective are paid the same. We don’t take a big slice of profit. All income goes into paying people and making L&O shows.