{"podcast":{"title":"The Failing Writers Podcast","slug":"the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374","podcast_index_feed_id":3571374,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66202cf262f822001203895b","website_url":"https://www.failingwriterspodcast.com","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/66202cf262f822001203895b/1774252797881-8978c666-7232-4bd8-a257-0baa322169ea.jpeg","author":"The Failing Writers","episode_count":163,"summary":"Becoming a better writer, writing a novel, being a successful author - whatever your writing goal is, we’re here for you! Join two struggling writers learning everything there is to know about writing. They talk to best-selling authors, screenwriters and poets - people who actually know what they’re talking about. The award-winning Failing Writers Podcast is the best writing podcast around. Why? It’s funny, informative and could help you get over writer’s block, finish that novel, get a literary agent and achieve your writing goals. (Oh, and they do silly little songs too) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T04:19:51.659016+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374"},"episode":{"title":"S5 Ep13: Doug Naylor on Red Dwarf & Writing for Children","slug":"s5-ep13-doug-naylor-on-red-dwarf-writing-for-children","published_at":"2025-09-08T00:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep13-doug-naylor-on-red-dwarf-writing-for-children","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374","url":"https://shows.acast.com/failing-writers/episodes/s5-ep13","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66202cf262f822001203895b/e/68bacaeb45004e42c9c1916c/media.mp3","summary":"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Bbbrrbuummmbbbb....Lift off...fffwwoooooooooshhhhhhh. This week we launch into a good ole' natter with the brilliant Doug Naylor, co-creator & writer of Red Dwarf. We talk about his excellent new children's book, and its space-ship based iterations. We talk more generally about writing children's stories. We talk about how Doug learned the craft of writing comedy. We talk about how many times he and Rob pitched Red Dwarf unsuccessfully. We talk about they went about developing an episode. We talk about the abortive US version of Red Dwarf We find out if it's likely there'll be another series of Red Dwarf and we talk about persistence and 'actually finishing things' (which simultaneously inspires and upsets us.) All very interesting and useful stuff from an actual real-life legend - we think you'll agree! Buy his excellent book hither: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sin-bin-island-the-unmissable-brand-new-adventure-from-red-dwarf-co-creator-and-sunday-times-bestselling-doug-naylor-doug-naylor/7955180?ean=9781788453707 Binge Red Dwarf here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b008ncn6/red-dwarf aaaand probably don't watch this TOTP version of The Chicken Song, unless you want to spend the entire evening (and an entire sleepless night) with it rolling around and around in your head. (Yes. That happened.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OiZNGYmvg8 Also... you'll be wanting a link to Scrivener, won't you? So that you can get 20% off their popular and amazing writing software? Well you can do that here: by using the code: failing https://www.literatureandlatte.com/ I know. We're very very good to you. But hey, you deserve it, for being discerning enough to listen to The Failing Writers Podcast. Well that just about wraps it up... o…","meta_description":"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Bbbrrbuummmbbbb....Lift off...fffwwoooooooooshhhhhhh. This week we launch into a good ole' natter with the brilliant Do…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4224,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/episodes/s5-ep13-doug-naylor-on-red-dwarf-writing-for-children/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-failing-writers-podcast-3571374/s5-ep13-doug-naylor-on-red-dwarf-writing-for-children.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}