If you click on the link within the Writersroom opportunity near the bottom of the page then all becomes clear.
Looks good to me and I'm looking forward to having a go at this one.
Talking and Not Talking opportunity Page 3
Nah, you're just a bloke...
Dolly, are you making fun of my disability? 
And Blenkinsop, yeah, I noticed the examples on WW last night.
I've been quite prolific.
Five "question packs" ready to send.
Should they be formatted along standard radio formatting lines? Or just sent as a page of answers, as indicated on the Writersroom link?
I'm just gonna send the standard radio format.
Dan
Quote: chipolata @ March 2 2009, 10:29 AM GMTShould they be formatted along standard radio formatting lines? Or just sent as a page of answers, as indicated on the Writersroom link?
I doubt it matters too much as they'll just coopy-and-paste into their recording script anyway. Besides, I imagine open-door things are more used to a bizarre variety of formats turning up.
Quote: Blenkinsop @ February 26 2009, 6:35 PM GMTPossibly where the question might have been:
Were you beaten as a child?
If I understand it then they might want 10-ish possible funny answers such as...
No because I was very competitive
No but I was quite often whisked
Not brilliant examples but maybe that's the kinda thing?
According to the brief, the listener doesn't get to hear the question, so the puns riffing off "beaten" probably wouldn't work in that example.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ March 2 2009, 12:25 PM GMTAccording to the brief, the listener doesn't get to hear the question, so the puns riffing off "beaten" probably wouldn't work in that example.
Yeah you're right Kevin
That was before there were examples available and we were stumbling about in the dark a bit.
It's fairly clear what the brief is now so those examples wouldn't work very well at all.
B
As the question is unheard, you need to give clues in your answers. A couple of times, I'd repeat the question as the first line of he answer.
e.g. Was I beaten as a child?
Also,
I just sent it as a Word Doc with a question on top of page,and a list of answers below.
I didn't put it in radio format.
Quote: Mikey J @ March 2 2009, 4:43 PM GMTAs the question is unheard, you need to give clues in your answers. A couple of times, I'd repeat the question as the first line of he answer.
e.g. Was I beaten as a child?
I don't think that's a good idea, actually; have a look at how Fry And Laurie did it and you'll see why it works better when you don't.
Yeah I've done a similar sort of thing Mikey and repeated or hinted at the question in one or two of my responses. I put it in radio format but don't expect that it matters much at this stage.
But it's supposed to be an unheard question, so if you just repeat the unheard question, it's no longer an unheard question; do you see?
rather than thinking of them as answers to questions, I thought of them more as mini stand-alone monologues.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ March 2 2009, 4:53 PM GMTBut it's supposed to be an unheard question, so if you just repeat the unheard question, it's no longer an unheard question; do you see?
What's the question?
Speak up I'm a bit mutton
EDIT:
Just read mine again and it turns out I didn't repeat the question I only thought I did so phew!
TBH I don't really think it matters too much at this stage because if the material's good enough it is but the simple act of cutting the question thus it becomes a stand alone comment to an unheard question.
Yeah, I also didn't exactly repeat any questions as such.
Just hinted at them, in a couple.
Most are just answers.
And yes, I can see how right Matthew is now. 
Out of the goodness of my heart and the bandwidth of my webhost I've uploaded a five minute compilation of Vox Pops from the 2nd series of TaNT which you can hear by right clicking this and 'saving as'.
Should give everyone a bit more idea what they want.