The Reject Pile Podcast

The Reject Pile

Giving a second chance to works of art or entertainment that have been rejected. lredwards.substack.com

Episodes

  1. Breaking the News Series 30 Rejects with Ellie Hayward and Dan Sweryt

    06/10/2025

    Breaking the News Series 30 Rejects with Ellie Hayward and Dan Sweryt

    The Reject Pile returns for its second episode which focuses on material rejected from the 30th series of BBC Radio Scotland's open door topical panel show Breaking the News in early 2025. Joining Luke Edwards are Ellie Hayward and Dan Sweryt; two people who are not only seasoned contributors to Breaking the News in their own right, but are also hosts of a training course designed to help aspiring writers gain their first professional writing credit on the show. You can find out more about the course that Ellie and Dan run with Dave Cohen at https://www.davecohen.org.uk/learn-to-write-comedy/comedy-writing-courses/. You can also find Ellie on X at https://x.com/elliehay and Dan on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/swerytd.bsky.social or X at https://x.com/swerytd. Material was submitted by: - Mike Cooper, who you can find on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/mikecooperrp.bsky.social; - James Docherty, who is on Threads at https://www.threads.com/@j_s_docherty, Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/j_s_docherty and Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/jsdocherty.bsky.social; - Mike Grace, whose portfolio you can find at https://clippings.me/takingthemike; - Nik Ilukkumbere, who you can follow on X at https://x.com/gichowdotcom, Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/gichowdotcom/ and Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/gichowdotcom.bsky.social. Helping Luke with performing the submitted material were Rob Stephenson and Kevin Welch. You can hear Breaking the News at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b066zypj and The Skewer, which we also discuss in the episode, at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000czyb. The page that Dan mentions regarding submitting to The Skewer is available here: https://weareunusual.net/skewer-contributor-guide. Find The Reject Pile’s social links at https://linktr.ee/RejectPilePod and host Luke Edwards’ at https://linktr.ee/ThatLukeEdwards. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lredwards.substack.com

    1h 6m
  2. Pilot - Brand New & PC Who

    11/30/2024

    Pilot - Brand New & PC Who

    The Reject Pile gives a second chance to creative works of art or entertainment that have been rejected. Are you a writer, tired of having your work rejected with no feedback? Maybe you're a fan of comedy or drama, interested in hearing new material and taking a glimpse at the development process? Perhaps you work in the industry and want to hear the voices of emerging writers? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then The Reject Pile might be the show for you! And, heck, even if you didn't, you might just get entertained along the way! Join host Luke Edwards as he rifles through The Reject Pile to dig out material by new, aspiring and established writers. Scripts are performed with cast members Rob Stephenson, Amy Tobin and Kevin Welch, after development with script editor Phil Stewart, which is then explored in an analytical discussion. In this episode, we welcome Rob Smyth and his submission 'PC Who': a miscellany of moniker madness set in a police station. Rob is a sketch and sitcom writer from Lincoln who's had several broadcast credits on BBC's Newsjack, Breaking the News and The Show What You Wrote. You can follow Rob at https://x.com/2014Robertsmyth. We also hear Luke's submission to the first episode of the third series of BBC's DMs Are Open with a sketch called 'Brand New': a ridiculous romp of record shop repetition. You can find Luke's social media profiles at https://linktr.ee/ThatLukeEdwards. If you're a creative in any field, please do send your rejected material to us at rejectpilepod@gmail.com! Without that, there'll be no more episodes! Please do also let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions for future episodes. You can find our social links at https://linktr.ee/RejectPilePod. Finally, thanks to Nelly Edwards (https://linktr.ee/thenellyedwards) for the podcast artwork and Sam Edwards at Sunset Studios for support with audio production. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lredwards.substack.com

    51 min

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