In this episode we speak to Bennett Arron who is an award winning writer, comedian and BAFTA shortlisted director. He has supported Ricky Gervais on his 'Science' tour and in 1997 Arron was a finalist of the BBC New Comedy Awards alongside Peter Kay.

 

In 2007, he wrote, directed and presented the documentary How Not to Lose Your Identity for Channel 4 which was based on his own experience of identity fraud. Since then, he has been speaking at conferences all across the world to help prevent our identities being stolen. Bennett discusses these methods with us.

 

Since lockdown and quick thinking, Bennett setup sitcom writing workshops which have been incredibly successful, helping aspiring comedic writers produce comedy scripts. If you are a comedy writer and want to learn more about breaking into the industry, this episode is for you.