Ed Morrish
{{Short description|British radio producer}}
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Ed Morrish is a British radio comedy producer, joining the BBC as a trainee in 2002.{{cite web|url=https://londonscreenwritersfestival.com/speakers/ed-morrish|title=ed-morrish|website=London Screenwriters' Festival}}
Career
Morrish has numerous credits on BBC Radio which include Newsjack,{{cite web|url=http://www.bbcswahili.com/blogs/writersroom/authors/a-z/m?page=2|title=BBC Blogs - BBC Writersroom - All Authors|website=www.bbcswahili.com}} The News Quiz,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/authors/234aecc9-fa94-303f-88ff-9a2cf8218cc8|title=BBC Blogs - BBC Writersroom - Ed Morrish|website=www.bbc.co.uk}} The Now Show, Mark Thomas: The Manifesto, Spats, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xkt4d/p00xkt2r|title=Ed Morrish - Edinburgh special - Edinburgh 2012, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC}} and Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbcmundo.com/academy/production/article/art20140423144440094|title=Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully|website=www.bbcmundo.com}}
Morrish has also made shows with Kevin Eldon{{cite web|url=https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/kevin-eldon-1/work/kevin-eldon-poet-s-tree|title=Curtis Brown|website=www.curtisbrown.co.uk}} Andrew Maxwell,{{cite web|url=https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/4354/news-global-stand-show-andrew-maxwell|title=News: Global Stand-Up Show for Andrew Maxwell|date=16 August 2017|website=Beyond The Joke}} Tony Law,{{cite web|url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/07/28/37183/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/07/19/37099/harry_enfield_to_star_in_a_sitcom_about_capital_punishment|title=The Time Law-d : News 2017 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide|website=www.chortle.co.uk}} Paul Sinha, Milton Jones, Sue Perkins, Danielle Ward{{cite web|url=http://sitcomgeek.blogspot.com/2016/07/an-interview-with-radio-comedy-producer.html|title=Sitcom Geek: An Interview with Radio Comedy Producer|first=James|last=Cary|date=13 July 2016|publisher=}} Sofie Hagen{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/disability-41055226/drunk-people-ask-the-most-awkward-questions|title=Drunk people ask the most awkward questions|work=BBC News}} and Adam Buxton.{{Cite web |url=https://www.adamandjoearchive.org/Misc/A%20Week%20with%20Adam%20Buxton/A%20Week%20With%20Adam%20Buxton.txt |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903151235/https://www.adamandjoearchive.org/Misc/A%20Week%20with%20Adam%20Buxton/A%20Week%20With%20Adam%20Buxton.txt |archive-date=2018-09-03 |url-status=dead}}
In November 2020 the Radio Times adjudicated the top twenty radio comedy shows ever, and Morrish had produced five of them.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/nov/17/im-sorry-i-havent-a-clue-greatest-radio-comedy-says-panel-radio-4|title = I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is greatest radio comedy, says panel| website=TheGuardian.com |date = 17 November 2020}}
Morrish has written for the New Statesman.{{cite web|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/02/its-great-have-one-woman-tv-panel-show-you-need-more|title=It's great to have one woman on a TV panel show, but you need more than that|website=www.newstatesman.com|date=10 February 2014}} Morrish has also appeared as a guest on the Cariad Lloyd podcast Griefcast.{{cite web|url=https://www.acast.com/griefcast/ep.40edmorrish|title=Ep. 40 Ed Morrish - Griefcast on acast|last=acast|date=6 June 2018|publisher=}}
He is the producer of the podcast Sound Heap, which he co-created with presenter John-Luke Roberts, it won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Sketch Comedy in 2022.{{cite web|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1LwL1lk0ngVrMvJkhvRFs9y/audio-drama-awards-2022-the-winners |website=BBC.co.uk|accessdate=28 January 2024|title= Audio Drama Awards 2022 – The Winners}} The podcast is semi-improvised and a long list of guests include Tom Allen, Isy Suttie and Deborah Frances-White.{{cite web|url=https://podnews.net/press-release/sound-heap-launch|website=Podnews.net|accessdate=28 January 2024|title= Sound Heap promises a podcast of infinite podcasts|date=28 May 2021}}
Awards
Morrish won the Silver Award for Best Radio Comedy for the John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme at the 2014 Sony Awards. At the 2015 Audio production awards the Morrish produced show with John Finnemore won Best Scripted Comedy.{{cite web|url=https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1406/news-bbc-audio-drama-awards-%E2%80%93-results|title=News: BBC Audio Drama Awards – Results|date=1 February 2015|website=Beyond The Joke}}
At the Audio Production Awards of 2017 Morrish was awarded Best Entertainment Producer.{{cite web|url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2017/11/audio-production-awards-2017-the-winners/|title=Audio Production Awards 2017 – the winners – RadioToday|website=radiotoday.co.uk|date=23 November 2017}} Morrish won Best Technical Production in 2018 for Welcome To Wherever You Are at the BBC Radio and Music Awards.{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotoday.co.uk/amp/2018/03/bbc-radio-and-music-awards-2018-winners/|title=BBC Radio and Music Awards 2018 – winners|date=21 March 2018|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09h6k1g|title=Episode 2, Series 1, Welcome to Wherever You Are - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC}}
References
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