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Prompety Prompt

Letty Butler & Stephen Mellor

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Join Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor (also known as Dave) for a game show that shines the spotlight on new and existing writers, via the medium of chatting, creative prompts and live writing challenges. We have two different guests every episode - novelists, poets, spoken word artists, script and screenwriters. You can also play along at home, so send us your work and it might just end up on the show!
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Salutations! Welcome back to the collection of mini-episodes that we’re creating in-between our main series (which is back again for eight new episodes later this year). In ‘A Very Prompt Chat’ we talk with fellow writers and prompteteers around the world and ask them to create and read a new piece of work for us (based on one of our previous promp…
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Actor, Comedian, Creative Coach and Writer, Letty Butler chats about her life and work, including getting up everyday at 4am to write for 2 or 3 hours and then returning to sleep - starting the day ‘again’ at 8ish! She says sometimes she can’t really remember writing what she reads back - its like its magical - ‘it sometimes feels like I’m not real…
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Hello you. Welcome to a brand new series of mini-episodes that we’re creating in-between our main series (which is back again for eight new episodes later this summer). We are calling these shows ‘A Very Prompt Chat’ and within them we’ll be talking with fellow writers and prompteteers around the world and asking them to create and read a new piece…
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Welcome to a bumper series end special, crammed with 23 different listener contributions based on past season prompts; plus a catch up between Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor and a cheeky new prompt challenge between our two hosts …because revenge is best served minty fresh! If this all sounds like fun; that’s because it is! Remember you too can be…
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Guests Afshan D’souza-Lodhi and Joe Willis join hosts Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor for a screenwriting special. In this episode Afshan, Joe and Stephen respond live, against the clock, to a series of writing prompts, as well as discussing bad sex, pineapples, LGBTQIA+ support, how to break into screenwriting, and lubing up the gherkin — oh, and …
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Guests Mark Stay and Ian W Sainsbury join hosts Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor in a ‘controversial’ podcast with a difference, for writers and readers alike. In this episode Mark, Ian, and Letty respond live, against the clock, to a series of writing prompts, as well as discussing writing what you know, impostor syndrome, books in the loo and how …
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Enter the scintillating world of severed heads and banana delivery logistics, as we sit side by side with award winning guests Molly Aitkin, author of The Island Child, and Conor O’Callaghan, author of We Are Not In The World. Joining hosts Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor, as they respond live, against the clock, to a series of writing prompts, as …
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Guests Nik Perring and Genevieve Carver join hosts Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor in a podcast with a difference, for writers and readers alike. In this episode, Stephen hosts, and Nik, Joanna, and Letty respond live, against the clock, to a series of writing prompts, as well as discussing the highs and lows and challenges of being a writer, how t…
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Guests Helen Mort and Joe Kriss join hosts Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor in a Christmas podcast with a difference, for both writers and readers alike. In this episode, Helen, Joe, and Letty enter a seasonal world of lonely freelance Christmas parties, David Beckham, kipperlips and Sally Rooney chat up lines — oh, and Letty makes an innuendo about…
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Enter the world of unhappy ducks, endangered canaries, dubious freezer contents, dementia and sonnet bombing with guests Joanna Hastings & Iain Broome plus hosts Letty Butler & Stephen Mellor. The prompts today were taken from writingprompts.com (and their twitter account) and were: 200 words on the pre-prepared prompt of ‘For some reason the ducks…
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If you want to boost your brain without the banter, you're in the right place. This is a spin-off of the main ‘Prompety Prompt’ show where we give you short audio suggestions to get you writing, right here, right now. No chat, no nonsense - just writer/coach Letty Butler, talking you through a creative prompt every two weeks to get the ideas and th…
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An episode that starts so calm before a speedy descent into all manner of imaginations: from sperm eyes, to mucas plugs, giant rows of red penises, turtle shows, fish finger butties and a face full of Whitby. With hosts Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor plus guests Alan Frost and Philippa Howell. The prompts were taken from The Writers Toolbox, by Ja…
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Guests David Oakley and Jessica Sinclair join hosts Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor in a podcast with a difference, for writers and readers alike. In this episode, Letty hosts, and David, Jess and Stephen respond live, against the clock, to a series of writing prompts, as well as discussing the highs and lows and challenges of being a writer, where…
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Join Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor (also known as Dave) for a brand new game show that shines the spotlight on new and existing writers, via the medium of chatting, creative prompts and live writing challenges. We have two different studio guests every episode - novelists, poets, spoken word artists, script and screenwriters. and you can play alo…
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