Ed Reardon's Week

Ed Reardon's Week is a sitcom on BBC Radio 4. It concerns the story of a curmudgeonly 50-something writer described as an "author, pipesmoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive email".

Each episode usually begins with Ed by his computer, talking to himself as he types. Ed lives in near poverty with his cat, Elgar, scraping a living by jobbing on books such as The Brands Hatch Story and Pet Peeves, a book of celebrity pet anecdotes. Much of this work comes through his agent Felix (John Fortune) and his assistant Ping (Sally Hawkins).

Ed's best friend, Jaz Milvane (played by Philip Jackson), is a successful film director who adapted Ed's first (and so far only) novel Who Would Fardels Bear? into a Sally Field film called Sister Mom. Ed's only other main screen credit is an 1982 episode of the BBC wartime drama, Tenko.

Ed has lived in one-bedroom flat over a hairdresser's in Berkhamsted ever since he sold his London home after a messy divorce.

Ed Reardon is played by actor Chris Douglas, who also co-writes the series with Andrew Nickolds.

As of February 2006, two series of six programmes have been broadcast. A spin-off book was published in November 2005.