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Tom Swift

Tom Swift

Drama series

Sep 6, 2026

14:21
where do your ideas come from like what inspires new productions
14:25
Normally, I write lots of things down.
14:27
I have about 500 notes on my phone.
14:30
So I will think of something, like I said, like late at night or I'll see something that I like and go, how could I turn that into a panto routine? So especially when we do the boombox, we do a...
14:42
It's becoming quite big now, our boombox routine, which is basically the comic or dame with a boombox, pressing the button to change the music and the whole scene's based around that.
14:54
But that's very tricky to write every year because it has to be a brand new one, right? So you've got to keep writing notes down.
15:02
If you hear a song when you're listening to the radio and you go, oh, that's a great lyric, I'll write that down.
16:43
The Wicked Academy sounds amazing for young
0:40
Yeah
0:40
... telling about stories about the, the landscape and the folklore and the history of the area.
0:46
She's just inherited, uh, a, a farm from her mother.
0:50
Um, uh, but there's a bit of a tug of war going on between herself, her sister, Dearbhla, who wants to kind of preserve the, the land and the farm for nature and go back to the old ways of farming, uh, and her Uncle Dennis, who's a developer and who wants to-

8 MINS LATER

8:44
Yeah.
8:44
Um, uh, but with modern farming methods, it's all but disappeared, and it's kind of retreated to places like Belmullet, mostly Gaeltacht areas.
8:54
But, uh, 25 years ago, the bird was almost gone, uh, even in the, uh, even in the Mullet.
9:01
Uh, only under 20 calling males in the area.

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