Greatest Living Writer starts on Boxing Day

The series stars Bill Nighy, Nicola Walker, Nick Mohammed, Meera Syal, Jim Broadbent, Madelyn Smedley and more to be announced

What is Greatest Living Writer

From the press release:

A new audio comedy from Richard Curtis, he series centres on John Westlake (Bill Nighy), a literary titan whose towering genius has earned him global reverence, lifelong indulgence, and absolutely no useful social skills. As those around him absorb the blast radius of his genius, the series plays with creativity, legacy, literary celebrity, family, and the uncomfortable truth that being good at writing does not necessarily make you good at being a pleasant person.

Starting on Radio 4 on Boxing Day at 11pm, and available as a boxset on BBC Sounds on 14 December, the ten-part series is a Goldhawk Production, produced by Emma Hearn, John Scott Dryden and Alex Hollands and script edited by Emma Freud. Emma has this to say:

This is Richard’s first sitcom since Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley and Mr Bean. Of all his writing, this is the closest he’s written to his life, his world, his home and his experiences.

The press release also gives details on other comedy commissions — far too many to stuff into one post!