History Radio / EdReardonsWeek

* LoveAtFirstSight: When Ed meets a young woman who thinks that modern culture is reduced to the lowest common denominator and that everything is run by "twelve year olds", "[[FrankSinatra Strangers in the Night]]" starts playing in his head.

* AccidentallyAccurate: In one episode Ed goes to the tax office in Aylesbury, and speaks to Nicola. At the time the manager of the Enquiry Centre at the real Aylesbury Tax Office was Nikki.

''Ed Reardon's Week'' is a BBC Radio 4 comedy, written by Chris Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. It follows Edward Reardon, a divorced, washed-up, pence-pinching writer who makes it through the day with a combination of drink and acerbic wit. Once a moderately promising novelist, he is now reduced to writing coffee table, "impulse buy" books about celebrity pets to keep body and soul together. His favorite coping mechanism is making misanthropic observations about life, most of which he relays to his journal or his cat, [[Music/EdwardElgar Elgar]].

!!Ed Reardon's Week contains examples of:

* {{Anti-Intellectualism}}: Ed's bone of contention with the world.

''Ed Reardon's Week'' is a BBC Radio 4 comedy, written by Chris Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. It follows Edward Reardon, a divorced, washed-up, pence-pinching writer who makes it through the day with a combination of drink and acerbic wit. Once a moderately promising novelist, he is now reduced to writing coffee table, "impulse buy" books about celebrity pets to keep body and soul together. His favorite coping mechanism is making misanthropic observations about life, most of which he relays to his journal or his cat, [[EdwardElgar Elgar]].

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Ed tells his writing class that radio "has the best visuals" [[hottip:* :(i.e., one's imagination)]]; Stan remains unremittingly obtuse. [[JerkAss He might just be trying to wind Ed up, though.]]

* {{Understatement}}: When Ed has confused his grandson with another infant due to identical strollers, and brought the wrong one home. "We need to act very swiftly, here."

* Aromantic: Ed says he's "neutered by nature, the default Ed Reardon setting." He hates romance in books, television, film ...

* InVinoVeritas: Jaz gets genial and introspective when drunk. Ed also tends to lose what few qualms he has about insulting people when drunk, so Ping schedules his appointments for ''before'' lunchtime.

* InVinoVeritas: Jaz gets genial and introspective when drunk. (While Ed, on the other hand, passes out in train stations under half-eaten kabobs.)

* InVinoVeritas: Jaz gets genial and introspective when drunk.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Ed tells his writing class that radio "has the best visuals" [[hottip:* :(i.e., one's imagination)]]; Stan remains unremittingly obtuse.

''Ed Reardon's Week'' is a BBC Radio 4 comedy, written by Chris Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. It follows Edward Reardon, a divorced, washed-up, pence-pinching writer who makes it through the day with a combination of drink and acerbic wit. Once a moderately promising novelist, he is now reduced to writing coffee table, "impulse buy" books about celebrity pets. His favorite coping mechanism is making misanthropic observations about life, most of which he relays to his journal or his cat, [[EdwardElgar Elgar]].

!!!Ed Reardon's Week contains examples of:

* AllMyCircuits: Milvane's recent blockbuster films are a trilogy about a dolphin named Dermot who is in love with his human trainer. Who goes blind at one point ... and then Dermot donates his corneas to her.

* TheDividual: Stan, Olive, and Pearl, the three elderly retirees in Ed's creative writing class, who seem inseparable. Sometimes all three show up in unexpected place, such as on a cruise liner, and Ed remarks on the unlikelihood.

* TheDividual: Stan, Olive, and Pearl, the three elderly retirees in Ed's creative writing class.

--> '''Ed:''' The subtext being, it is not simply the murder of his Lordship, but of the English language itself.

---> Ed: You mean come up with another murderer? I can't. It's the inspector who does it. The whole arc of the story is building up to that ... Surely you must have spotted that all the clues pointed toward Inspector Oxford being a foreign agent. Why? Because he was the only one who spoke English correctly, whereas all the other characters used various demotic abominations such as split infinitives, upward? inflections?, incorrect usage, 'beg the question' when they mean 'ask' ...
---> Director: It's not going to be the end of the world if we lose all that.
---> Ed: The subtext being, it is not simply the murder of his Lordship, but of the English language itself.

* {{Understatement}}: When Ed has confused his grandson with another infant, due to identical strollers, and brought the wrong one home. "We need to act very swiftly, here."

* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Reardon, who converses more with his cat than any human being, because they're all twelve years old and stupid.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Reardon and Milvane. Milvane's fame as a film director really took off when he made a film out of Ed Reardon's first (and only) successful novel, without giving him any of the credit. Rancor still smolders in Ed's soul over this. But they've known each other for ages, occasionally enter into schemes and play weekly gigs together, and the only being Ed is on closer terms with is perhaps Elgar the cat.