The Archive
Recordings under the letter U
Total Number of Recordings under this letter: 53
- Urban Scrawl: Acton, by Steven Lally. Cast: Lucy Caplin (Sophie); Uriah Manning (Mark); Sam Ferriday (Charles); Kieran O’Connor (Manny). Directed by Nicholas Borsack. Studio manager: Tom Cassidy. Broadcast assistant: Aimee Patmore. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Say something - 'I want you to stay' - five little words... Just one word - 'stay'!”
- Recording Date: 27-Mar-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Alperton (Diwali and Curry), by Simon Wu. Cast: Tariq Bhatti (Amar); Siddiqua Akhtar (Mum); Keshini Sukram (Asha); Sapphire Joy (Jamilia); Rhik Sammader (Praba); Anil Kumar (Shalin). Directed by Samuel Webb. Studio production: Elayne Hall. Broadcast assistant: Graham Bridge. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Look, the parade - the flame costumes, the gods, the goddesses - aren't they beautiful? And the dancers...”
- Recording Date: 06-Mar-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Arnos Grove, by Karen L Ackerman (Time Out competition winner). Cast: Jamie Newall (Charles Holden); Mable Jones (Irene); Bradley Taylor (Geoffrey). Directed by Elizabeth Newman. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Broadcast assistant: Lou Stevens. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“You shouldn't find yourself sublimating your anger, which, according to our modern psychotherapists, breeds bad dreams.”
- Recording Date: 03-Apr-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Arsenal, by Jamie Chisholm. Cast: Ian Ungless (John); Yasmin Shiraz (Kathleen); Robert Plumbly, Oliver Mott, Max Hutchinson (Football Fans). Directed by Tim Roseman. Studio manager: Malin York. Broadcast assistant: Nick Amatt. Trainer: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“All them years, I've had to put up with the rain pissing down, suffering dodgy burgers and bent refs...”
- Recording Date: 20-Mar-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Baron's Court, a sound play by Maura Korhonen and Malin Mork. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Please report any unattended items to a member of staff or a police officer. For your safety and security CCTV is in use throughout London Underground - thank you.”
- Recording Date: 25-Dec-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Boston Manor, by Samuel Adamson. Cast: Nina Sosanya (Alison), Sian Phillips (Mother), Tom Mothersdale (London Man), Gillian Mackie (Tannoy). Directed by Tim Roseman. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Broadcast assistant: Michelle Gilmore. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“That man who just asked about your passport is fascinated by you. No, no, no don't look, don't look, don't look not yet. Now, look! Look at his repulsive, elephantine, rapist hands!”
- Recording Date: 31-Dec-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Bounds Green, by Stuart Permutt. Cast: Kevin Moore (Ted); Doreen Mantle (Norma). Directed by Gene David Kirk. Studio manager: Tom Cassidy. Broadcast assistant: Dan West. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“There's a man always gets on at Turnpike Lane and he does card tricks... This is my stop. Come back for a cup of tea, Ted, I haven't seen you in 15 years...”
- Recording Date: 17-Apr-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Caledonian Road, by Louise Gooding. Cast: David Beynon (Lucas); Kieran O'Connor (David); Edmund Dehn (Official). Directed by Steve Harper. Studio manager: Robert Allen. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“I see blokes like you with their plastic bags come out of them huge gates, rest of their lives ahead. They've got to make a choice...”
- Recording Date: 10-Apr-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Cockfosters, by Alexis Zegerman. Cast: Nicholas Goode (Alex); Johna Ash (Whitey); Hayley Michaels (Tube Announcer); Ruth Jennings (Pregnant Woman); Philip Fox (Mad Hatter); Josh Alward (Policeman and Big Issue Seller). Directed by Teunkie van der Sluijs. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Michael Jackson spotted in Bromley shopping centre - the FBI is currently reviewing security tapes which allegedly show the singer exiting the Bromley branch of Marks and Spencer.”
- Recording Date: 18-Dec-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Covent Garden, by Sarah Grochala. Cast: Eleanor Barr (Rosie); Christopher Cookson (Matt); Doreen Mantle (Bag Lady); Dana Gartland (Ivy); Lauryn Redding (Lady in Market); other parts played by members of the company. Directed by Tim Roseman. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Editor: Ben Davies. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“My heart pounding, up towards the Opera House then round the corner of the Piazza... I need to run forever... waves of nausea sweep over me. Then I stop - there's one of those space-age toilets right in front of me.”
- Recording Date: 01-May-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Ealing Common, by Bola Agbaje. Cast: Russ Dean (MC Slider); Jermaine (MC Slick); Eloise Secker (Businesswoman). Directed by Marina Caldarone. Studio production: Tom Cassidy, Elayne Hall. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“I'm an MC, yes, I'm an MC. I'm an MC, yes, I'm an MC.”
- Recording Date: 06-Feb-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Earls Court, by Dino Mahoney. Cast: Dino Mahoney (Woza); Sam Naylor (Ross); April Small (Chinese Girl 1); Angela May (Chinese Girl 2/Su May); Laura Prior (Kylie Fan 1); Hannah Pierce (Kylie Fan 2); Eva Maria Oria (Eastern European Girl); Alex Packer (Big Issue vendor/Lebanese Drug Dealer). Directed by Steve Harper. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Broadcast assistant: Karolin Frohnert. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“We met in here, you know... forty years ago - it is our anniversary!”
- Recording Date: 22-May-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Eastcote, by Ali Taylor. Cast: Jessica Gunning (Sue); Katy Newell (Cath). Directed by Elizabeth Newman. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“We were talking.' 'Discussing the credit crunch?' 'Something like that.' 'I wouldn't have thought a PA would have much to say to the director of finance.' 'I do. We get on well.' 'Very well, it looked like.'”
- Recording Date: 07-Aug-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Finsbury Park, by Janice Okoh. Cast: Rhiannon Harper Rafferty (Abi); Simone James (Lorna); Sapphire Joy (Gayanne). Directed by Gene David Kirk. Studio manager: Josh Richardson. Broadcast assistant: Claire Reeder. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“You doing your hair for something nice? Tell me if you don't want to talk... if you talk, don't talk, it's up to you.”
- Recording Date: 05-Jun-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Gloucester Road, by Dominic Cavendish. Cast: Eloise Secker (Denise); George Banks (Jeremy); Matthew Brewer (Steve); LJC (Boy); Russell Floyd, Lucie Fitchett, Patti Hogan Coyle (Americans). Directed by Marina Caldarone. Studio manager: Tom Cassidy. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“It was as if... you'll think I'm mad but, as if the truth about our world isn't to be found in pavements and bricks and houses but in the simple realisation that we are just creatures scuttling across the earth... and distance is immaterial and time is immaterial... Listen.”
- Recording Date: 28-Aug-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Green Park, by Matt Hartley. Cast: Donna Preston (Anna); Tarek Merchant (James). Directed by Clifford Milner. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Broadcast assistant: Michelle Gilmore. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“When I first got into London, I was desperate for a job and see there's loads of temp recruitment agencies right by the station - and as I got out of the station I would be in the smartest thing I could wear and I'd look around me and there'd be hundreds of other young people just like me and I thought 'Wow, everyone looks so smart and so confident in this part of the world..'. Then I realised - everyone was just like me... they were having to act this complete facade...”
- Recording Date: 16-Oct-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Hammersmith, by Phil Porter. Cast: Sam Palladio (John); Jonathan Cullen (Simon). Directed by Gene David Kirk. Studio production: Elayne Hall. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“That's what I'm afraid of... just the main part, where the District and Piccadilly Lines go through. I can't go there...”
- Recording Date: 23-Jan-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Hatton Cross, by Jessica Beck. Cast: J D Kelleher (George); Mitchell Mullins (Welles); Irina Aggrey (Anya); Michael D'Cruze (Judge Parmar); Ryan Hacker (Usher); Ayo Aloba (Security); Mitchell Mullins (Boss); Charlotte Allmand (Farmhand); Max Hutchinson (Voice); Michael D'Cruze (Groundkeeper); Veronica Lewis (Plane Spotter 1); Robert Plumbly (Plane Spotter 2); Max Hutchinson (Tube Worker). Directed by Mike Fentiman. Technical recording manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Matt Knowles. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“'Mr Carlisle, I need your help. If you don't help me, I am going to be deported...'”
- Recording Date: 27-Nov-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Heathrow Terminal Five, by Simon Stephens. Cast: Vicky Kerr (Clare); Tom Lorcan (James). Directed by Paul Robinson. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Look, you've got yourself all agitated, haven't you? You have, I know you have. I can tell just to look at you. You always look like that. And you know how it helps you, to be tested...”
- Recording Date: 31-Jul-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Heathrow Terminal Four, a musical by Julian Woolford (play, book and lyrics) and Richard John (music). Cast: Gemma Sutton (Jackie); Dougal Irvine (Ahmed). Directed by Lisa Spirling. Musical Director: Richard John. Musical Supervisor: David Hewson. Bass: Mike Slader. Technical recording manager: Tom Cassidy. Studio manager: Matt Knowles. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Do you believe in 77 virgins, rewarding you for urgently purging the earth of infidels?”
- Recording Date: 11-Dec-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Heathrow, by Clare Bayley. Cast: Julian Parkin (Doctor and Joshua); Russell Floyd (Mr Palmer); Eloise Secker (Cass); Sam Ferriday (Inigo). Directed by Rae Leaver. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Broadcast assistant: Kieren St Clair. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“I saw them again, in the sky, circling.' 'You saw nothing but swallows because there's nothing there...”
- Recording Date: 19-Jun-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Hillingdon, by Gene David Kirk. Cast: Richard Attlee (Man). Directed by Paul Robinson. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section. Content warning: explicit material.
“My head is going to burst, my chest is going to burst. Oh no, he's coming over. Gosh!... Who says 'gosh'?”
- Recording Date: 03-Jul-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Holborn, by Chris Lee. Cast: Tom Whitelock (Jumper); Dana Gartland (Death); Jon-Paul Rowden (Good Samaritan); David Hewson (Samaritan); Eloise Secker (Tannoy). Directed by Gene David Kirk. Studio production: Tom Cassidy. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“You'll enjoy Holborn. It has a wonderful history. The British Museum stored all its exhibits here during the Second World War... If you look hard enough, you might find some treasure.”
- Recording Date: 27-Feb-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Holloway Road, by Darren Murphy. Cast: Rusell Floyd (Riley); Julian Parkin (Meeks); Marina Caldarone (Miss Grotowski). Directed by Anna Iwanowska. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Assistant editor: Jo Yoxall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“I mean - who lives round Holloway Road anyway? It's one of those horrible, in-between places. You rush through it and shiver, it's a place in between other places, proper places... Highbury Corner, Camden Town...”
- Recording Date: 29-May-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Hounslow Central, by Daryl Bennett. Cast: Anthony Biggs (Matt); Edmund Dehn (Ray). Directed by Gene David Kirk. Studio production: Elayne Hall. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“I've always wanted to be met at the airport by someone. You know, by someone with my name on a board.”
- Recording Date: 20-Feb-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Hounslow East, by Laura Wade. Cast: Katherine Parkinson (Woman). Directed by Tim Roseman. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“When you touch, when a hand touches, the back of a hand brushes against mine in a busy tunnel, or getting on the train or getting off the train, that hand, that back of the hand bruises with longing.”
- Recording Date: 30-Oct-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Hounslow West, by Ray Lui. Cast: Jeremy Tiang (Wang); Jason Wong (Li); David Hewson (Busker). Directed by Anthony Biggs. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Broadcast assistant: Charlotte Eden. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Dear God, what a good luck.' 'What is the smell?' 'It's not me, I didn't fart.' 'I mean that good smell.' 'I think it should be from there.' 'Oh my god that's huge.' 'Yes, European is quite different with Chinese in size.”
- Recording Date: 25-Sep-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Hyde Park Corner, by Ben Ellis. Cast: Helen Schlesinger (Gloria); Hannah Pierce (Kitty); Jofre Belles and Eva Maria Oria (Spanish People); Jofre Belles (Attendant). Directed by Paul Robinson. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Broadcast assistant: Charlotte Eden. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“We're on an island, aren't we?' 'Of sorts.' 'We'd have to go back through all that history to get off it - dangerous to do anything else.”
- Recording Date: 18-Sep-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Ickenham, by Chips Hardy. Cast: Alex Scott (Dr Wallace); David Zoob (Burton). Directed by Gene David Kirk. Studio production: Tom Cassidy, Joshua Richardson. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Where are the victors? Where if not out there somewhere in hiding, waiting to see what fresh onslaught Darwinism has prepared for them.”
- Recording Date: 01-Jan-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Knightsbridge, by Natalia Savvides (Time Out competition winner). Cast: Viv Parry (Joan); Henry Devas (Peregrine); Jermaine Dominique (Raz). Directed by Gene David Kirk. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“This is my right. This is my freedom, innit, as a citizen of this city. I can stand outside Harrods and stop people like you getting inside.”
- Recording Date: 17-Jul-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Leicester Square, by Mark Dooley. Cast: Laura Prior (Nicky); Kirsty Neilson (Carly). Directed by Antonio Ferrara. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Do you not think we're a bit early, Carly?' 'No, it's going to get packed.' 'I know that, but it's nine o' clock in the morning.' 'It doesn't start till seven... I mean, they've not even put the red carpet down or anything.”
- Recording Date: 21-Aug-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Manor House, by Mark Ravenhill. Cast: Harriet Walter (Woman). Directed by Marina Caldarone. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“And I remember, yes it was us, it was in our great big manor house one time, it was, I remember, we ran the tests on the children...”
- Recording Date: 06-Nov-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: North Ealing by Sarah Dickenson. Cast: Jill Cardo (Lucy); Sally McDonald (Train Announcer); Harry Palmer (Train Guard and Librarian). Directed by Teunkie van der Sluijs. Studio manager: Tom Cassidy. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“My god, there's a cow on the tracks, not one cow but a whole herd of cows, some grazing, some stamping and groaning, itching their sides against the walls, drumming their hooves on the tracks, their udders bursting. I run to the ticket barrier to tell someone...”
- Recording Date: 09-Oct-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Northfields, by Duncan Macmillan. Cast: Adam Redmayne (Man). Directed by Steve Harper. Studio manager and sound designer: Malin Mork. Broadcast assistant: Kieren St Clair. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Why did you get off at Northfields? What did you expect to find here? Fields?... You've not been thinking clearly...”
- Recording Date: 26-Jun-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Oakwood, a musical by Nathan Taylor. Cast: Stephen Weller (Him); Eloise Secker (Her); Emma Gates (Girl in Bar); Veronica Lewis (Maddie); Anton Thompson (Bouncer 1); Oliver Mott (Bouncer 2/Man in Bar). Directed by David Blount; Musical Director: Nathan Taylor. Assistant Musical Director: Jo Yoxall. Musical Supervisor/Guitar: David Hewson; Bass: Mike Slader; Acoustic Guitar: Malin Mork. Technical recording manager: Elayne Hall. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Sound engineer: Matt Knowles. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“It's only 15 stops and then the world's my oyster! I'm walking tall and nobody can ever bring me down. Look at me, I guarantee I will have the pick of this town.”
- Recording Date: 04-Dec-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Osterley, by Patrick Marmion. Cast: Robert Styles (Dave); Martin Ritchie (Tom); Ariane Barnes (Woman); Greg Baldock (Wife). Directed by Chris Hill. Studio manager: Tom Cassidy. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“My life has been a vain, meaningless charade which I can no longer endorse. I must bring it to an end as soon as is practicable.”
- Recording Date: 13-Nov-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Park Royal, by Effie Woods (Time Out competition winner). Cast: Gillian Mackie (Tannoy); Toni Kanal (Anna); Brooke Hender (Paul); Andy Dowbiggin (Billy). Directed by Claudia Jazz Haley. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Broadcast assistant: Michelle Gilmore. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Let's sit down on this bench. I'd just like to sit on this bench. You can sit with me if you like...”
- Recording Date: 10-Jul-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Piccadilly Circus, by Charlie Moore. Cast: Kevin Moore (Busker); Sam Ferriday (Youth); Guitar played by David Hewson. Directed by Anthony Biggs. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Okay, what happens every time the Friday night city air hits you full in the face?”
- Recording Date: 15-May-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Rayners Lane, by Lou Ramsden. Cast: Marcella Riordan (Connie); Philip Fox (Keith); Jesse Velik (Man). Directed by Benjamin Fowler. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Tired is it? You'll let us be murdered in our beds? Because you're tired?!”
- Recording Date: 20-Nov-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Ruislip Manor, by Alison Kirkwood. Cast: Pascale Whyte (Girl); Rachel Dobell (Voice and Newsreader). Directed by Teunkie Van der Sluijs. Studio manager: Malin Mork. Broadcast assistant: Sarah Clear. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“A huge gust of wind just went right down the station - maybe this is it; the hell-hounds have come to get me... Talk to me until the train comes. I'm all alone.”
- Recording Date: 08-May-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Ruislip, by Gillian Plowman. Cast: Alice De Cent (Anne), Alex Packer (Jeff), Mark Conway (Val), Dana Gartland (Desk). Directed by Steve Harper. Studio production: Joshua Richardson. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“What if the train, the whole train, was full of sheep being sheared and you and I had to have one finished by each stop, because you get a new one at the next stop. The Piccadilly 'Sheep Shorn' Line...”
- Recording Date: 09-Jan-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Russell Square, by Sarah Sigal. Cast: Jon-Paul Rowden (Jacob); Laura Prior (Clarissa). Directed by Marina Caldarone. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Not everything can be exploited to the advantage of human beings - though we try, we can't just kill everything off...”
- Recording Date: 24-Apr-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: South Ealing, by Simon Warne. Cast: Eloise Secker (American Actress); Kenny Davies (Tony); Jermaine Dominique (Mike). Directed by Paul Robinson. Studio manager: Josh Richardson. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“I have to get to the studios.' 'Trust me... hold on to my hand, and jump!”
- Recording Date: 23-Oct-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: South Harrow, by Robert Iles. Cast: Roy Macready (Terry); Robert Iles (Policeman). Directed by Gene David Kirk. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“It's Nessy as in Loch. Loch Nessy. Nessy's a big monster, like my sister.”
- Recording Date: 14-Aug-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: South Kensington, by Tom Morton Smith. Cast: Mark Conway (Mark); Max Hutchinson (Martin); Matthew Brewer (Driver); Lucy Caplin (Mary). Directed by Elizabeth Newman. Studio manager: Tom Cassidy. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“I used to want to be a brontosaurus. That sounds nuts, doesn't it? Do you think I'm nuts because I wanted to be a brontosaurus?”
- Recording Date: 04-Sep-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Southgate, by Will Hammond. Cast: Alex Packer (Man). Original music composed by Tom Cassidy. Arranger/Guitar: Matthew Knowles. Guitar: Tom Wasley. Directed by Mel Hillyard. Studio manager: Tom Cassidy. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Our footsteps and moaning bellies the only sound around, as we walk the long blue line, raiding little tuck shops all full of now out-of-date magazines and newspapers, their pages ageing and yellowing by the day.”
- Recording Date: 11-Sep-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Sudbury Hill, by Patti Hogan Coyle. Cast: David Carlyle (Him/ Drunk/ Station Attendant); Hannah Pierce (Her); Roy Macready (Man on Train); Toni Kanal (Woman on Train). Directed by Hanna Wolf. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section. Content warning: explicit material.
“Down this way... See there's the place, hidden.' 'It's locked. It says: Danger of Death.' 'I'm in danger of death, you're killing me...”
- Recording Date: 24-Jul-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Sudbury Town, by Sarah Beck. Cast: Anthony Biggs (Harold); Pascale Whyte (Gemma); Sartaj Garewal (Man); Kirsty Neilson (Woman). Directed by Gene David Kirk, Marina Caldarone. Studio production: Joshua Richardson, Tom Cassidy. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Oh Harold, look at the little mouse. He's just sitting there staring straight at us.”
- Recording Date: 16-Jan-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: The Cross (King's Cross), by Jane Bodie. Cast: Shona Cairney (Her); Harry Waller (Him). Directed by Gene David Kirk. Studio production: Joshua Richardson, Tom Cassidy, Elayne Hall. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Could you tell me how many stops it is to King's Cross? Could you count them for me?”
- Recording Date: 30-Jan-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Turnham Green, by Ros Bentley (Time Out competition winner). Cast: Kenny Davies (Male Voice); Gayle Madine (She); Robert Styles (Word Man). Directed by Jessica Dalton-Leggett. Studio manager: Elayne Hall. Broadcast assistant: Michelle Gilmore. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“Buy some words, buy some words! You must buy words. You have been selected by the words. They get angry if I don't succeed, don't sell. It's a lack of respect...”
- Recording Date: 12-Jun-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Turnpike Lane, by Steven Hevey. Cast: Max Hutchinson (Duncan); Tolga Safer (Deniz); Ayo Aloba (Nzuzi); Hemi Yeroham (Mehmet). Directed by Teunkie van der Sluijs. Studio manager: Tom Cassidy. Recording manager: Marina Caldarone. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“I pay your wages. You lot are even lucky you've got jobs thanks to me... stand there and tell me I don't know where am I or what I'm doing. This is England and I've got a job to do.”
- Recording Date: 02-Oct-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Uxbridge, by Dominic Mitchell. Cast: Euan Borland (Man). Directed by Steve Harper. Studio manager: Joshua Richardson. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. Expletives not deleted. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“According to Crazy Lady, Queen Victoria had a sexual fetish for - how do I put this?... she liked the company of rodents...”
- Recording Date: 13-Mar-2009
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- Urban Scrawl: Wood Green, by Dawn King. Cast: Pascale Whyte (Girl); Tom Mothersdale (Ruben); George Banks (Jeremy); Jo Dockery (Carla). Directed by Steve Harper and Marina Caldarone. Studio production: Elayne Hall, Joshua Richardson. Recorded at Rose Bruford College. For full details and disclaimer visit the 'find out more' section.
“In these days when it seems like you can't hold on to anything, when the very house you live in is shifting and pitching, rocking on the sea of the global economy and threatening to throw you out entirely...”
- Recording Date: 13-Feb-2009
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