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