Listen "Arabella Weir - Actress, Writer and Columnist"
Episode Synopsis
                            Arabella rose to fame in The Fast Show asking "Does my bum look big in this?" which she wrote as well as performed, but did you know about her musical based on the life of Tina Turner? Hear a clip of that and various radio, TV and film scripts she penned that didn't get the go ahead.... yet.
Clips performed by: Rachel Atkins, Beth Chalmers, Leah Marks, Chris Pavlo, Nigel Pilkington and Keith Wickham.
Warning: This episode contains strong language.
Arabella is an actress, author and presenter. She is best known as one of the stars of the award winning TV sketch show The Fast Show, which enjoyed five series on BBC2. Her numerous television credits include Two Doors Down which was recently commissioned for a fifth series by BBC2 as well as Pure, Drifters, Doctor Who, Skins, Taking Over the Asylum, and Traffik.
She wrote the best-selling books Does My Bum Look Big In This?, The Diary of an Insecure Woman, Onwards and Upwards, Stupid Cupid, an autobiography The Real Me Is Thin, a trilogy for teenagers, and she co-wrote Posh Nosh for the BBC, starring alongside Richard E. Grant. She will shortly continue the tour of her first one-woman show Does My Mum Loom Big In This.
For more details about the writer, the offcuts and the actors performing them see the episode show notes: https://offcutsdrawer.com/arabella-weir
                        
                    Clips performed by: Rachel Atkins, Beth Chalmers, Leah Marks, Chris Pavlo, Nigel Pilkington and Keith Wickham.
Warning: This episode contains strong language.
Arabella is an actress, author and presenter. She is best known as one of the stars of the award winning TV sketch show The Fast Show, which enjoyed five series on BBC2. Her numerous television credits include Two Doors Down which was recently commissioned for a fifth series by BBC2 as well as Pure, Drifters, Doctor Who, Skins, Taking Over the Asylum, and Traffik.
She wrote the best-selling books Does My Bum Look Big In This?, The Diary of an Insecure Woman, Onwards and Upwards, Stupid Cupid, an autobiography The Real Me Is Thin, a trilogy for teenagers, and she co-wrote Posh Nosh for the BBC, starring alongside Richard E. Grant. She will shortly continue the tour of her first one-woman show Does My Mum Loom Big In This.
For more details about the writer, the offcuts and the actors performing them see the episode show notes: https://offcutsdrawer.com/arabella-weir
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