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Car Crash
A hilarious take on modern dating through the eyes of Northern ex-pat Grace and laidback Londoner Elliot as they attempt to navigate life while being haunted through the years by a blind date that goes disastrously wrong.
Grace Williams and Elliot Dowd meet for a blind date arranged by Connector Magazine’s ‘Match-Ups’ feature, a popular free mag flung in to the hands of commuters at tube stations. They both arrive with good intentions but the date quickly turns sour due to a series of hilarious mishaps...the date is deemed a disaster, and neither Grace not Elliot want to see each other ever again. The Universe however has other ideas... the feature is a hit for the magazine and it goes viral turning them both in to overnight celebrities. As the years pass and Elliot and Grace’s world’s continue to collide they can’t deny their enduring, if infuriating, connection.
Written by accomplished audio writer Eddie Robson, Car Crash is produced for Audible by Bafflegab, an award winning leader in audio production.
Grace Williams and Elliot Dowd meet for a blind date arranged by Connector Magazine’s ‘Match-Ups’ feature, a popular free mag flung in to the hands of commuters at tube stations. They both arrive with good intentions but the date quickly turns sour due to a series of hilarious mishaps...the date is deemed a disaster, and neither Grace not Elliot want to see each other ever again. The Universe however has other ideas... the feature is a hit for the magazine and it goes viral turning them both in to overnight celebrities. As the years pass and Elliot and Grace’s world’s continue to collide they can’t deny their enduring, if infuriating, connection.
Written by accomplished audio writer Eddie Robson, Car Crash is produced for Audible by Bafflegab, an award winning leader in audio production.
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Published October 27, 2021
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About the author
Eddie Robson
158 books111 followersEddie Robson is a comedy and science fiction writer best known for his sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully and his work on a variety of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who. He has written books, comics and short stories, and has worked as a freelance journalist for various science fiction magazines. He is married to a female academic and lives in Lancaster.
Robson's comedy writing career began in 2008 with material for Look Away Now. Since then his work has featured on That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Tilt, Play and Record, Newsjack, Recorded For Training Purposes and The Headset Set. The pilot episode of his sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 5th July 2012. It starred Katherine Parkinson and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
His Doctor Who work includes the BBC 7 radio plays Phobos, Human Resources and Grand Theft Cosmos, the CD releases Memory Lane, The Condemned, The Raincloud Man and The Eight Truths, and several short stories for Big Finish's Doctor Who anthologies, Short Trips. He has contributed comic strips to Doctor Who Adventures.
Between 2007 and 2009, Robson was the producer of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of products, and has contributed four audio plays to the series. He has also written books on film noir and the Coen Brothers for Virgin Publishing, the Doctor Who episode guide Who's Next with co-authors Mark Clapham and Jim Smith, and an illustrated adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Robson's comedy writing career began in 2008 with material for Look Away Now. Since then his work has featured on That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Tilt, Play and Record, Newsjack, Recorded For Training Purposes and The Headset Set. The pilot episode of his sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 5th July 2012. It starred Katherine Parkinson and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
His Doctor Who work includes the BBC 7 radio plays Phobos, Human Resources and Grand Theft Cosmos, the CD releases Memory Lane, The Condemned, The Raincloud Man and The Eight Truths, and several short stories for Big Finish's Doctor Who anthologies, Short Trips. He has contributed comic strips to Doctor Who Adventures.
Between 2007 and 2009, Robson was the producer of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of products, and has contributed four audio plays to the series. He has also written books on film noir and the Coen Brothers for Virgin Publishing, the Doctor Who episode guide Who's Next with co-authors Mark Clapham and Jim Smith, and an illustrated adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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September 7, 2022
This was good characters were brilliant and i loved both aimee lou wood and alfie enoch were great.
November 9, 2021
I love the main characters, Gracie and Elliot. They were so funny and relatable. Adults figuring life out and dating and relationships. The performances were excellent and really enjoyed how the episodes were formatted and the length. In conclusion a very hilarious and lovely listen.
January 13, 2022
Rating 3.5
Great cast of characters! Fun story and interactions.
Found main characters very annoying and borderline unlikeable at the start. But enjoyed following their development into better and more empathetic versions of themselves.
Great cast of characters! Fun story and interactions.
Found main characters very annoying and borderline unlikeable at the start. But enjoyed following their development into better and more empathetic versions of themselves.
June 8, 2023
Interesting concept but Elliot is super unlikeable - and the way he and his friends talk about women is very iffy. I don’t like it at all. This also makes Grace look like an obsessive stalker and I don’t like that either. I’m tapping out.
This whole thing is a car crash.
This whole thing is a car crash.
May 23, 2023
Another Audible podcast style full cast romance (I listened to this right after finishing Book Lovers). Fluffy and listenable, although in this one the characters weren't as appealing. The performances are good.
It starts with a disastrous blind date whose details end up going viral, resulting in Grace getting abuse and threats while Elliott turns it into a podcast career. I liked the premise, but Grace is so horrible, and Elliott comes across as so fundamentally decent, that the point is lost. For instance, during the date, Grace forced Elliott to try an oyster (because she's a snob and he works at the dump so of course she has to show him how the better people live) and it turned out he was allergic and ended up at the hospital, which she left him alone to deal with. It was hard to have much sympathy for her after that.
Still, not bad to listen to while doing chores or whatever.
It starts with a disastrous blind date whose details end up going viral, resulting in Grace getting abuse and threats while Elliott turns it into a podcast career. I liked the premise, but Grace is so horrible, and Elliott comes across as so fundamentally decent, that the point is lost. For instance, during the date, Grace forced Elliott to try an oyster (because she's a snob and he works at the dump so of course she has to show him how the better people live) and it turned out he was allergic and ended up at the hospital, which she left him alone to deal with. It was hard to have much sympathy for her after that.
Still, not bad to listen to while doing chores or whatever.
December 19, 2021
A couple goes on a disastrous first date promoted by a magazine, and from there their lives take very different turns. As each episode passes, time jumps ahead and we meet them but they are different and keep evolving. This character development was my favourite, and the narration is amazing! Very entertaining and fun.
July 5, 2022
This was supposed to be a comedic romance. Instead, it was a neurotic female and an easy going guy in a series of modern social media. For me, it wasn’t funny or romantic. The female lead was annoying as hell and I didn’t blame the guy for not wanting to be with her in the beginning. Overly long and complicated. Sorry I wasted my time.
March 27, 2025
The performances were great and the story was very funny and relatable. I love when audio experiences (such as this one) have an immersive element that makes the audience feel more a part of the story. It’s a great touch that more audio books/podcasts should feature!
January 16, 2023
Adorable!
January 25, 2023
Absolutely brilliant! It made my morning commute so much better! I loved the plot and the characters were so relatable!
April 4, 2023
Surprisingly decent
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