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Episode 375: Charlie Brooker On The Music Of Black Mirror

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

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The Benefits of Writing With Cast in Mind

I often in comedy you're imagining what's the worst that could happen. And I think it's a comic effect and in drama and horror and disturbing stuff. You're kind of exercising a similar muscle. Do you ever write with specific cast in mind as well? Because, you know, that's another brilliant part to this show is the cast and who you see. It's not just casting the actors, it's directors and composers. How much do you relinquish control for each episode on Black Manor? Well, basically, as soon as they've obviously got loads of questions about the script,. Sometimes their questions, I don't have answers to them. But then I feel terribly inadequate

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