# S5 Ep9: Putting on an Edinburgh festival show - with Samia Rida Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep9-putting-on-an-edinburgh-festival-show-with-samia-rida Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep9-putting-on-an-edinburgh-festival-show-with-samia-rida.md Podcast: [The Failing Writers Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374) Published: 2025-07-14T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/failing-writers/episodes/s5-ep10-putting-on-an-edinburgh-festival-show-with-samia-rid Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66202cf262f822001203895b/e/68702f732a1945076306f7bd/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/episodes/s5-ep9-putting-on-an-edinburgh-festival-show-with-samia-rida Duration seconds: 3254 ## Resource OK, first things first, before you read any more of this, go to  https://www.literatureandlatte.com  and get yaself 20% off Scrivener right now with the code: FAILING Done that? Brilliant. First step towards becoming a proper writer - DONE. Perfect. Now... it’s time to settle the score, turn the tables, slip the shoe onto the other foot. Tom sets up a chat with Samia Rida, who’s taking her one woman play to Edinburgh.  A cunning way of encouraging Jon and Katie to crack on with their play. Will it work? Find out in this week’s episode, as we chat to Samia about how you go about taking a show to Edinburgh, the benefits of taking your writing into your own hands and turning it into a show, the trauma and comedy inherent in being kidnapped and taken to Saudi Arabia, the life of artists generally, and lots of other stuff that you’ll have to listen to the show to find out. Samia’s play is called Kidnap, it’s on at the Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh from 30th July to the 10th August, and it sounds excellent!  Get your tix here: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/samia-rida-kidnap Samia on Instagram: @rida_samia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/episodes/s5-ep9-putting-on-an-edinburgh-festival-show-with-samia-rida/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep9-putting-on-an-edinburgh-festival-show-with-samia-rida.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.