Graham Oakes talks to me about his endeavours in stand-up comedy, in sketch groups, and in creating YouTube videos. Graham tells me about how he prepared for his first stand-up gig while carrying mattresses through Newcastle, and about what happened when a community of "real" vampires took against one of his YouTube videos. Graham also created the artwork for unfinishing and if you'd like to see some other examples of his work, you can find them here: @grahamoakesart

If you have an unfinished or unpublished project you'd like to talk about, please contact Em Anderson via email (unfinishing.pod@gmail.com) or on Twitter: @TrueBagglerag. More details and a full list of episodes are available on my website: ecanderson.wordpress.com 

unfinishing celebrates creative projects that never got finished, that have yet to be finished, or that never made it out into the world. What’s the value to be found in unfinished and private writing, art, and music? What stops us from finishing things off? And what might happen if the pressure to complete projects disappeared? I ask my guests to search their bottom drawers and the corners of their laptops to rediscover secret and incomplete schemes.

unfinishing is produced and presented by Em Anderson