Mileta Rien
Episode 19 of More Than A Whelan breaks new ground as for the first time we have not one, but two short radio plays created exclusively for the podcast inspired by our listener creative prompts with special guest scriptwriter, poet, Mileta Rien.Sean begins the show reading the song lyrics to the only song he's ever written called Chewing Gum & Wine.Chewing and Wine.From your dress to the floorFrom the bottle to the doorYou never asked for muchExcept 'don't be poor'Which I wasAnd I am.You put donuts in the saladThen I told you I had had itBut by the end of a moderately priced ShirazWe were fucking like rabbits.Chewing gum and wineChewing gum and wineThat was our tale.Separately spectacularBut together doomed to failI went to a Steiner schoolYou thought that was really coolYou said that you home studiedAnd learnt Shakespeare in the poolWhich is also coolLike reallyChewing gum and wineChewing gum and wineThat was our tale.Separately spectacularBut together doomed to failYou liked wearing pleatherIn all kinds of weather.In the winter that was cleverBut the summer was not so kind.Chewing gum and wineChewing gum and wineIt just can't work together.But don't worry baby.You'll be fineYou'll be fine.You'll be finnnnnnnne.*A CHAT WITH SCREENWRITER MILETA RIENSean has a chat with Mileta about her path to becoming a writer and subsequently a screenwriter.Mileta and Sean read a radioplay called Green Sea Glass, written by Mileta based upon a creative prompt by Penny Waller Ulmer. The prompt being about a true story left by Penny about collecting sea glass on a beach with her father as a child and then many years later travelling on the same beach and seeing the same green sea glass on the beach. Thank you Penny!Sean, Mileta and MTAW producer and head honcho of Castaway Studios, Derek Myers are the cast for Sean's radio play inspired by three creative prompts by Penny Waller Ulmer.Those three prompts are...
- If your thoughts think you.
- A clogged wishing well.
- Red chinese wedding umbrellas.