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Inside the Writersroom with Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith

BBC Writers

CHAPTER

The Journey to Make Run

Marlon tells how he and two friends came up with the idea for an online show. They pitched it to documentaries company K.O. Films, but they were slow to take them seriously. After making a pilot on their own, channel four agreed to run series. Marlon: "It was the first time we had ever been paid for to do something"

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