this artwork was done by Airside studios.

This is my favourite creative project. I’d write to famous creators I admired. We’d meet, we’d improvise a story together, and Radio 4 would broadcast the results. I did 3 series on Radio 4, and made up stories with numerous people, including David Walliams, Terry Gilliam, Ross Noble, John Waters, Steven Berkoff, Tony Parsons, Tracy Emin, GP Taylor and Ian Rankin. I’d find out loads about each guest, and also loads about how to tell a good story.  In particular I learned that a great story concentrates on a central character, who must have a problem, and a desire. 
For example, I went to see Terry Gilliam in a basement in Soho, just after the Lost In La Mancha chaos.  He walked into the room saying:
“So you’re the imagination guy?  My imagination is gone.  I’m just matter.  I’m a slug.”  
So I said:  “OK let’s tell a story where you’re a slug.  You’re a slug.”
“I’m damp.  I’m wet.”
“Wet?  Why so wet?”
“People are pissing on me.  I live in my slug basement and they’re pissing on me.”
“But who?  Who is pissing on you?”
“The people of Soho!”
“Who are they?”
“The homosexualists of Soho.”
“So what are you going to do?”
“I’m going to have to confront them.”
“Exactly.  So you ooze your way up the stairs, and outside, into Soho Square.  And you confront the homosexualists.  How many of them are there?”
“Fifty.”
“What do you they do?”
“They penetrate me.  In my natural orifices, and in others, that they make.”
“And what happens?”
“I give birth to tiny moth children, which all have the faces of Jesus.  And the Jesuses fly off…”
At this point, I realised that there was no way on earth this material was going to be broadcast on Radio 4. But I couldn’t stop him there.  I wanted to know what would happen to those Jesus babies, who were born in such a heinously depraved act.  I also thought of something else that made Gilliam seem such a great artist:  he’s not afraid to admit he’s screwed.
In the preface to Dirty Angels I wrote:  “click onto www.andrewclover.com and listen to his collaborations with David Walliams, Terry Gilliam, and, Andrew’s favourite, Fred Deakin from Lemon Jelly.”  I’m really sorry about this, but you can’t.  Radio 4 say they’ll be repeating all the episodes, and I’m not allowed to broadcast them till they do.  They told me to ask again in a few months’ time.  This annoys the hell out of me, since I’m longing to let you listen to the show.  The radio show was produced by Gary Reich.  He’s a TV producer who did the first terrestrial work with Dom Jolly,  Sasha Baron Cohen, and Katherine Tate.  He wants to make Storyman into an animated chatshow, and has made a pilot of a story I made with David Walliams, in which David saw himself as a vicious old transsexual lady, who meets her four year old self.  Again, I’m desperate to load this up onto the website, but I need to clear a few legal problems.

Keep watching this space. Eventually it’ll happen.