Welcome to High Flyers, the new series from Female Pilot Club celebrating women who've made it through the turbulent skies of the commissioning system to get their very own greenlit radio or TV series. Kay Stonham and Emily Chase are joined by multi Scottish BAFTA award-winning comedian, writer and actress Ashley Storrie, creator and star of Radio 4's What's the Story, Ashley Storrie, and co-creator, co-writer and star of Dinosaur on BBC iPlayer and Hulu.

Ashley explains how a producer's advice to 'write what's in your head' became her innovative, autobiographical Radio 4 series, why she believes all roads should lead to radio, and how a COVID-era self-tape led to her consulting on, then co-creating, then exec producing the TV series Dinosaur. Ashley speaks movingly about filming season two of Dinosaur while her mum, stand up Janey Godley lay terminally ill in hospital, the pressure of representing authentic Scottishness on screen, the comedy workshop she ran with the National Autistic Society, and a childhood spent supporting her mum's stand up career. Her comedy industry experience was so rich that by 13 she wrote and performed her own show at The Edinburgh Fringe!

It's packed with practical wisdom for writers: getting work into development, rewriting a whole episode in 12 hours, never turning your nose up at a job, and planting a duff joke in your script so execs have something to cut. Generous, honest and very funny, this is one for anyone trying to get their own show green-lit.

0:00 Welcome and the Facebook BAFTA

2:49 Making What's the Story, Ashley's Story

4:48 All roads lead to radio

9:38 The Ashleys in her head

12:10 Dinosaur: from self-tape to co-creator

14:08 Co-writing and the 12-hour rewrite

20:24 Grief and filming season two

25:32 Representing autism and Scottishness

32:34 Stand-up at Scottish Parliament

35:53 Fringe networking and development deals

48:02 Don't be picky: Sing Along a Frozen

52:38 The duff joke trick and final advice

Recorded at ‪@TheDeanStreetPodcastStudio‬, Soho with VeePod, the all-in-one video podcast and content studio system.

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Welcome to Female Pilot Club's High Flyers. In this new series, pilot-clubbers Kay Stonham, Emily Chase & Chelsea Kania talk to women writers who have successfully navigated the commissioning process to land a greenlit TV, radio or film comedy and find out what they did to make their project take off.

Listen and learn as our High Flyers reveal how they soared above the hurdles, not just surviving but thriving as women writers in the notoriously male atmosphere of the British Comedy industry. Female Pilot Club exists to shine a light on great new TV comedy writing by women through showcases with top flight comedy talent, mentorships with industry heavyweights, screenings events and our podcast.

We believe in the power of women as consumers supporting each other's work, so please listen, like and subscribe to the podcast, watch us on Youtube, www.youtu.be/MoDG3QwfimI, check out our website on www.femalepilotclub.co.uk/, or follow us on instagram @femalepilotclub Up, up and away!

Female Pilot Club exists to shine a light on great new comedy writing by women through showcases with top flight comedy talent, mentorships with industry heavyweights, screenings, events and our podcast.

We believe in the power of women as consumers supporting each other's work, so please listen, like and subscribe to the podcast, watch us on Youtube, https://youtu.be/MoDG3QwfimI?is=7U2Cv08-dlOpO0zI, check out our website on https://www.femalepilotclub.co.uk/, or follow us on instagram @femalepilotclub

Up, up and away!

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In the very first episode of High Flyers, Female Pilot Club's Kay Stonham hears how Jess Bray navigated the long and winding road to getting her first sitcom Break Clause commissioned by Channel 4. Jess talks about the triumphs and pitfalls of her early career, giving top tips on how to build your craft skills in writersrooms, how to run one when you finally make it and how to let go if a script is rejected. She also waxes lyrical about the joys of Rom-Com and tells us why she chose director Alice Sneddon over 'a list of 4000 Bens'.

Warm, funny and full of usable tips, it's essential listening for anyone trying to break through the TV commissioning system. Break Clause is on Channel 4 on October 1st at 10pm.

#comedy #femalewriter #femalewriting #sitcom #scriptedcomedy #tvcommissioning #femalecomedian

Female Pilot Club exists to shine a light on great new comedy writing by women through showcases with top flight comedy talent, mentorships with industry heavyweights, screenings, events and our podcast.

We believe in the power of women as consumers supporting each other's work, so please listen, like and subscribe to the podcast, watch us on Youtube, https://youtu.be/MoDG3QwfimI?is=7U2Cv08-dlOpO0zI, check out our website on https://www.femalepilotclub.co.uk/, or follow us on instagram @femalepilotclub

Up, up and away!

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In this episode Kay and Emily talk to Emily Lloyd-Saini (Juice, Motherland and Catastrophe) about her dream experience in a writers’ room, how everyone needs a great comedy partner in their life, and how she doesn’t, repeat, doesn’t want her own TV sketch show!

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