I've been working on a radio sitcom for a little while now and thought I'd post a scene to test the water. It's called 'Son of Neptune' and it's set on a container ship.
Let me know what you think.
Archie and Owen have just received a message from crewman Groat that the Captain wants to see them.
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SCENE 2: CAPTAIN'S OFFICE - DAY
CAPTAIN ANTWERP waits for OWEN and ARCHIE.
F/X: DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
CPT. ANTWERP: Archie my boy! How's the wife?
ARCHIE: Still not married, Sir.
CPT. ANTWERP: And who's this with you? New recruit eh?
ARCHIE: Captain, this is Owen. You sent for him.
CPT. ANTWERP: Funny, can't remember ordering a cabin boy. Oh well, so be it! You can start in the toilet, it's filthy.
OWEN: Tempting as that is Sir, you asked for me to fulfil an order for you.
CPT. ANTWERP: That's right; the toilet! If that's not an order I don't know what is, now get to work!
OWEN: Archie, you talk to him. He listens to you.
ARCHIE: No he doesn't.
CPT. ANTWERP: What's that?
ARCHIE: Captain; Groat said you had an acquisition order?
CPT. ANTWERP: Groat? Groat? Groat! Oh yes, of course! You know, sometimes I think I might need one of those thing-um-ies, you know?
OWEN: A CAT scan?
CPT. ANTWERP: A day off. Now what can I do for you two?
ARCHIE: Captain, the order?
CPT. ANTWERP: Oh yes. I've got it written down so I don't forget. Yes, here it is. We've got the owner coming aboard when we dock in two days and I want to lay on a special dinner, very haute cuisine, and I know he's a bit of a connoisseur of endangered meats.
ARCHIE: Right. By endangered you mean, 'on the list of animals close to extinction'?
CPT. ANTWERP: That's it. But I want to go one better than that. I want to land a species that scientists have yet to discover.
OWEN: And that would be?
CPT. ANTWERP: An Ubberdubberdactyl.
OWEN: Let me get this straight. You want us to find a creature called, and forgive me if I pronounce this incorrectly, not being a cryptozoologist myself, an Ubberdubberdactyl?
CPT. ANTWERP: An Ubberdubberdactyl.
OWEN: A creature that so far as you know only exists in mythology?
ARCHIE: And so far as myself and Owen know, may only exist in your imagination?
CPT. ANTWERP: That's the ticket. Rudolf is already preparing one of the lifeboats for you and here's the map. You'll need that to find the island.
OWEN: Is it worth my mentioning that myself and Archie are cooks and not explorers who specialise in hunting creatures that don't exist?
CPT. ANTWERP: What?
OWEN: That's what I thought.
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