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Out Of Character with Alex Lynch: Conversations with Sketch and Character Comedians

Laurence Rickard

Season 4, Ep. 41

Alex chats to writer and performer Laurence Rickard (BBC’s ‘Ghosts’, CBBC’s ‘Horrible Histories’, SKY’s ‘Yonderland’) about the origin of Them There, playing two ghosts at once, and naively writing 10 horses into a TV sketch.


Laurence also creates a character on the spot based solely on the made-up name given to him by Alex in our regular section ‘Chain(ge) of Character’. This episode was recorded 24th April 2024.


You can find more of Laurence’s work here… https://laurencerickard.com/

Tw: @lazbotron / Insta: @lazbotron

Watch the complete ‘Ghosts’ on BBC iPlayer


Presented, recorded, edited and produced by Alex Lynch (@AlexJRLynch)

Music by Naïve

Artwork by Tom Crowley

A Future Ghost Podcast


Follow the podcast at @oocharacterpod on Twitter. Email oocharacterpod@gmail.com

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