On the Terrace: Working Up

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In this episode of On the Terrace, host Vaya Pashos talks about Night Terrace episode four, “The Outsourcing”, with writer and sound designer David Ashton and actor Amanda Buckley!

Eddie goes off to explore a new world on his own, and accidentally signs his life away to the megacorporation that runs the planet! Can Anastasia save him? Does she even care to? And what’s the mystery behind Valufrax’s senior management? Vaya, David and Amanda talk about how they got on Night Terrace, plot complexities, call centres, accents and more.

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Episode four of Night Terrace, “The Outsourcing”, is available on BBC Radio 4 Extra for 30 days after broadcast. You can also listen to episode one for free, and purchase the rest of the series, via nightterrace.com or the Splendid Chaps Bandcamp store. You can find Vaya on Neighbuzz at neighbuzzpod.com.

Show Notes

  • While Uber first came to Australia in 2012, it initially operated only in Sydney, not arriving in Melbourne until early 2013. uberX, the ride-sharing service where drivers use their own cars, didn’t launch in Australia until March 2014, so the service as a whole wasn’t well known here at the time series one was being written and recorded. Uber has since expanded to 38 Australian cities.
  • The Father Ted episode in which Father Dougal enjoys some sound effects is “Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep”, the second of the third and final series.
  • American sit-com Better Off Ted had two seasons on ABC between 2009 to 2010. The show starred Jay Harrington as Ted Crisp, an ordinary man trying to set a good example for his daughter while working as the head of R&D at the evil company Veridian Dynamics. His boss Veronica Palmer was played by Portia de Rossi
  • If you enjoy weird shows with “Ted” in the title, you may want to track down the three-part BBC comedy Ted and Alice from 2002, in which Dawn French meets an outcast alien looking for love…and a place to hide his spaceship.
  • Parks & Recreation was the first hit show from producer Michael Shur, now best known for Brooklyn-99 and The Good Place. Shot in mockumentary style, it’s about the Parks Department in the (fictional) town of Pawnee, Indiana. Amy Poehler stars as Leslie Knope, the Deputy Director of the department, who is positive, hard-working and ambitious.
  • The Slap is an award-winning 2008 novel by Australian author Christos Tsolkas. It follows the social fallout after a man slaps someone else’s misbehaving three-year-old son at a barbecue. It was adapted for Australian television in 2011, and again for US television in 2015, with Melissa George playing the slapped boy’s mother Rosie in both.
  • You can see Amanda perform with Impro Melbourne, The Big Hoo-Haa and The Improv Conspiracy – as well as her own improvised Eurovision-style show, Your-O-Vision! If you’re listening to this when it’s released, you can still catch it this Friday, May 17 2019, at the Improv Conspiracy Theatre. Ben McKenzie (Eddie Jones) will be a guest performer!