Waiting: A miraculous cast
All right, luvvies? Matt here with the Waiting edition of Ready & Waiting, a fortnightly newsletter from Foggy Outline. There’s been so much exciting progress on I Need A Miracle since last time, which I can’t wait to wax lyrical about!
The Waiting edition is all about stuff that’s not quite ready to release to the world yet, but it’d be silly of me not to mention we just launched a new environmental literacy course on Udemy! It’s called Renewable energy – What is it and do we need it? and you can enroll right now. More on this in the Ready edition in a fortnight’s time.
Matt at Interactive Soup
4 June, 18:00GMT, Theatre Deli Leadenhall
It’s tomorrow! Doors from 18:00, and from 19:00 Scarehand Productions, Hamstrung, Seth Kriebel & Zoe Bouras, Liminal Labs and Adventure Quests will be pitching for the ticket money pot.
I’ll be there as a volunteer, helping run the event.
And beyond the next fortnight…
Skipton Business Expo
4 September, 10:00BST, Skipton Town Hall
Mum and Dad went to the first one of these in March, as visitors. It was such a roaring success, the organiser – Liz Brewster of Craven Consultancy Services – decided to do another one the same year!
In September we’ll be much more involved – as sponsors of the Learning Zone, a seminar stage for sharing wisdom and advice.
We’re in contact with various speakers at the moment, working on finalising the Learning Zone line-up. Dad’s likely kicking off the day with 6 reasons why you should think about the environment when making business decisions. Once the rest of the speakers are finalised, I’ll announce them here.
In the meantime, tickets to the Expo are already available.
Udemy Instructor Partner Summit
8 October, 19:00WEST, Hotel Cascais Miragem Health & Spa
Have I mentioned lately that Dad’s a Udemy Instructor Partner? That means he doesn’t just post courses on Udemy – they actually commission him to create courses on topics they think their students need or want.
For the first time, Udemy’s inviting all their Instructor Partners to a summit in Cascais, Portugal. If you got the invitation too, and you’d like to connect at the event, reply to this email and we can try to organise something.
I Need A Miracle
An audio drama where each episode is a prayer, some prayers are granted, and a granted prayer can upend the world.
…and that’s a wrap! Check out some behind the scenes production photos on Wireless Theatre’s insta.
All 12 episodes of I Need A Miracle season 1 are recorded and in post-production. I’m tentatively looking at a late July/early August release date.
Hey, you want to know who’s gonna be in it? Here’s our incredible cast in alphabetical order:
Annette Badland (Ted Lasso)
Nathan Blades (Re: Dracula, Campaign: Skyjacks)
Saffron Coomber (Three Little Birds, The Corn Is Green)
Robyn Holdaway (Sex Education)
Patrick McKenzie (Tell Me Everything)
Harry Myers (Baldur’s Gate 3, Sandman)
Caleb Obediah (Bridgerton)
Lizzie Waterworth (Horrid Henry)
Sarah Whitehouse (1984 – Audible)
and introducing Dédé Davi
I got to sit in the studio for two days just watching them, and director Rob Valentine, transmute gold out of words on the page. I can’t wait for you all to hear them too.
The show has social medias now too! They’re not very active yet but you’ll want to already be following when I crank up the hype machine:
I couldn’t get the show name on both sites, and once you start adding .podcast or whatever to the end, it just starts getting too long. In Your Benevolence was the project’s original working title and it’s a phrase that appears in every episode. Plus I like the idea that every time someone @s the show, it’s like they’re offering their own plea. Hopefully that’ll offset it being difficult to search for…?
Environmental literacy courses
Renewable energy – What is it and do we need it?
As I said up top, this brand new course is now live and open for enrolment on Udemy.
Next is a series of follow-up courses that zoom in on specific renewable energy sources and technologies. The first one of those will be Why isn’t solar energy powering everything?, which is on track to open around the end of July.
Then after that will be another one on wind power.
What do we mean by climate breakdown?
Mum and Dad are also making plans to remaster our original course. What do we mean by climate breakdown? is about five years old now, and we’ve all learned a lot about media production since then. The audio is all in mono, and the quality of some of the filming isn’t up the standard we can achieve now.
This course has served us and thousands of students really well over the past five years, so it’ll be nice to revisit it and give it some well-earned love.
VoteClimate UK – There’s a General Election fast approaching here in the UK and not a lot of the candidates are committed to concrete climate action. The Commitment and VoteClimate UK have joined forces to make sure that if you want a government that really works for the environment, your vote counts.
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything by Cory Doctorow in the Financial Times – it was last year’s word of the year and keeps getting more and more relevant. This is another election issue, by the way, because enshittification isn’t inevitable: it can be halted by decent regulation. So let’s all make some politicians squirm this month by asking them how their party would regulate the tech sector better.
The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson – Dad’s summer holiday read. It comes recommended by Barack Obama!
Cold Tapes – a podcast Cain’s Jawbone. It’s an audio drama, a murder mystery story, and a competition; whoever susses out the killer is in with a chance of a cash prize and a Super Sleuth of the Year title. I’m a bit obsessed, both by the story it’s telling and the story around it. It’s made by Free Turn, whose profiles used to talk about being brand-funded but don’t any more, and I’m half convinced Cold Tapes is bankrolled by the Myers-Briggs Company. Email me back if this piques your interest, and I’ll add you to the
conspiracy boardgroup chat.
See you in two weeks for the Ready edition: a round-up of Foggy Outline things you can enjoy straight away, no waiting.