Set in Rawtenstall Lancashire this is the first part of the true story of Rita O’Brian. On Friday March 24th 1968 the 16 year old Rita was babysitting, that night she went missing.
Stories, Plays, Films it's got our prints all over it!
Monday, 5 November 2018
Friday, 21 September 2018
Monday, 17 September 2018
Living in a car park
This week Mark and Jo are living in a car park in Derbyshire, mixing with boy racers and hating the daily mail.
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Have we got a video?
Twenty odd years ago Mark went to collect a box of VHS videos from an old lady who was a recent widower. What he found made Michael Sheen laugh and share the story with an American chat show.
Tuesday, 1 May 2018
Snikkit.com
This week we're selling, well not really selling more like giving you something you might enjoy. We've invented an online App that talks to you and tells you great stories, for free.
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Strange Town
I got an email from a woman offering me a story. A random act and an invite to a very strange town in Lancashire.
Friday, 30 March 2018
Good Moaning World
What bugs you? What really, really pisses you off? Drivers? Council? Littler?
Well listen to this funny rant by your very own Joanne (Foxy Wharton) and Mark D. Spot.
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Superstition
See a penny pick it up the rest of the day you'll have good luck. If you listen to this on a day with a Y in it you'll have a better life.
Friday, 16 March 2018
Be a working Actor
Hello, I've been knocking about in this game for many years. I remember the day I left Arts Education in London and thinking "what do I do now"? I had no agent, no work and didn't really know how to go about it. Drama school was great for many things, but teaching the business it was not.
Personally, I was hard working and imaginative (obviously, I'm an actor) and I soon began to work out how to work. I went from a co-operative agency in Nottingham to one of the biggest agencies in the world. I have worked in profit share all the way up to Hollywood movies and as I look around I see young performers struggling to get started. We at Hard Graft have a long history of employing young actors, but we can't do everything. So what can we do? Anyone who has worked for so long in this industry sees it differently to you. I now produce theatre, so I'm on the other side of the table and I see mistakes actors make, mistakes I've made myself. So, what if I offered a 'How to work as an actor course'? If there are enough of you I will book a room and share my knowledge. Probably be £20 each for the afternoon. Pop your details here and I'll get back to you.
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Two, too hot in Tenerife
Let's face it, why would you want to spend January in the Great British weather? We don't we like to feel the sun on our faces and the warm African wind in our hair.
Friday, 16 February 2018
Tenerife
Every January, like a sparrow Mark and Jo migrate to warmer climes. This year we have travelled to Tenerife, the largest of the Canary islands off west Africa.
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
I love the past, but I couldn’t live there.
As 2018 begins we have sat down and thought about the future and we’ve come to the conclusion that all those thoughts and conversations have been about work in the past. Bringing stuff back. Well, bugger that. I have very little time to leave a lasting memory on this planet and I’ve got to start, as ever, by looking forward, not back. Back is comfortable and fuzzy and warm, but tied. Forward is frightening, poverty potential, lunacy, but exciting.
So it’s January 9th 2018, we as ever are skint, but me as ever has a million and one ideas about telling tales.
Stay tuned friends, it’s going to be an exciting, roller coaster of a year and I want to put you at the centre of it.
See you soon
Mark
Happy Birthday Hard Graft
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