Homebrew Studio Celebrates 4th Birthday with New Radio Series

Indie media makers Homebrew Studio are celebrating their fourth birthday with the release of a new radio series.

The serial, which they describe as ‘not a Shakespeare breakfast cereal’ is Macdonald, pain of haw haw, king of nowhere.

It has been four years since the beginning of the project founded by multi-talented musician Matt Dean.

“We have recorded and published 5 radio comedy serials, 3 films and many audio sketches,” he said. “We are currently recording and producing two radio plays and preparing to make two short films this year.”

Underlying the possibilities of low-budget, he explained that the project is totally un-funded, unpaid and relies only on the time of those involved.

“There have been many challenges on the way,” he noted.

“Time, money, Covid, getting the right crew together at the same time and place, and now we are being challenged by the price of lettuce. The lockdown was really tough but we persisted and produced a few radio episodes with cast members posting their lines in and the editor going nuts cutting and pasting.”

One big thing that came out of the lockdown was Dean putting together a 15-minute documentary about his famous footballing grandfather Dixie Dean, who still holds the record of 60 goals in one season in England’s top division.

While teaching in England and playing music Dean made several frustrating attempts to have this made, but was met with people and enterprises with the agenda of taking the idea, cutting him out and never actually following through. He released his own doco in May 2020 on Facebook and YouTube and it is getting 50 plays a day. He still wants to make a longer version.

Dean cashed in some of his super and bought two cameras, lights, microphones and other equipment and started re-working a script about his university days in a very pretentious poetry and comedy scene War of the words.

This inspired him to write Conspiracy, the shallow state, another mockumentary. It is taking the piss out of the conspiracy groups that have now made a beach head in mainstream politics.

The next film project will be a 25 – 30 minute mockumentary about the truth behind Jack and the Beanstalk.

You can watch the first episode below. All of the Homebrew Studio material is available for free on their YouTube channel.