He is the voice of Ed Reardon in BBC Radio 4's long-running sitcom Ed Reardon's Week, which he co-wrote with Andrew Nickolds. Ed Reardon's Week has completed fifteen series and was the winner of the Broadcasting Press Guild's "Best Radio Programme" award in 2005 and again in 2010. Douglas is also the voice and co-creator of the world's most disappointing cricketer Dave Podmore, a Radio 4 regular since 2001.
Other radio credits include a two-part adaptation of George Gissing's New Grub Street, two series of Mastering The Universe, co-written with Nick Newman and starring Dawn French. With Nicola Sanderson, he co-wrote three series of the radio comedy, Beauty Of Britain, starring Jocelyn Jee Esien.[2]
Douglas wrote and directed the improbably long-running career of uber-thesp Nicholas Craig (Nigel Planer), whose autobiography I, An Actor was first published in 1988, and who has continued to appear on TV and on stage ever since.
Background
Douglas was the son of actor, director and TV producer Douglas Neill and of Carol Howard-Eady, an actress and stage manager. Douglas's step-father Derek Clark was briefly an actor before becoming a director and producer, retiring in 1992 as Director of Programmes for HTV.
Douglas was educated at Downs Preparatory School and Clifton College. He left school at 15 to work as an assistant stage manager in various regional theatres, such as Porthcawl, Ilfracombe, Bristol Old Vic, Worcester and the Wyvern, Swindon, where he made his performing debut as the back end of Alfred the Horse. In 1972, he joined the Young Vic company as an acting assistant stage manager. He took up writing in 1979 but continued to work as an actor. He is secretary of the Weekenders Cricket Club.
Writing credits
THEATRE
Theatrical Digs (Edinburgh and New End, 1981)
Scout's Honour (Lyric Hammersmith 1987 - Best Comedy nomination, Standard Drama Awards)
An Evening with Nicholas Craig starring Nigel Planer (Hampstead Theatre, National Theatre and touring 1988–2002)
Ed Reardon: A Writer's Burden (Edinburgh and tour 2011)
RADIO
The Englishman Abroad (Saturday Night Theatre, 1980)
I, An Actor... (series 1989). Thirty episodes of Dave Podmore, co-written with Nick Newman and Andrew Nickolds (1997-2018
"Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue" (1999), two series of Mastering the Universe, with Nick Newman (2005 & 2009)
Ed Reardon's Week, co-written with Andrew Nickolds (2004– to date)
Dolly (Radio 4 Afternoon Play, 2009)
three series of Beauty of Britain, co-written with Nicola Sanderson (2009–12)
New Grub Street (two-part adaptation, 2016)
"Tristram Shandy: In Development" (Drama On 4).
TV
Tygo Road (co-written with Richard Cottan, BBC 2 series 1990)
The Naked Actor (BBC 2 series 1991)
The Nicholas Craig Masterclass (BBC 2 series 1992)
It's Not Cricket with Rory Bremner (BBC 2 1998)
The Age Thing (BBC pilot starring Patricia Hodge and Hugh Bonneville 1998)
A Master Class in Film Villiany [sic] with Nicholas Craig (2003) (BBC 1 2003)
How to be Eighteenth-Century (BBC4 and BBC2 2006)
How to be Sci-Fi (BBC4 2006)
The Rock and Roll Years (BBC1 pilot 2006)
Mark Lawson Interviews Nicholas Craig (BBC4 2008)
How to be Edwardian (BBC4 2007)
How to be Old (BBC4 2009)
BOOKS
Spartan Cricketer, a biography of D.R.Jardine (George Allen & Unwin 1984. Reissued by Methuen in 2002 and 2003)
I, An Actor... (Pavilion Books 1988, Pan Books 1989 and Methuen 2001, reissued 2008 and again in 2017)
Pod Almighty! (Simon and Schuster 1996)
The Word of Pod, (Collected columns from The Guardian, Methuen 2002)
Ed Reardon’s Week (Simon & Schuster 2005, paperback 2006)
RADIO: Member of BBC Radio Drama Company 1983–84. I, An Actor... (Radio 4 series 1989). Twenty-seven Dave Podmore shows (Radio 5 and 4 1997–2017). Mastering the Universe with Dawn French (2006/08). Club of Queer Trades (2005) London Life (2006), Peacefully in Their Sleeps (2007). Gus MacDonald (2008). Dolly (2009). Brian Gulliver's Travels (2011). Beauty of Britain (2009–12).
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