Behind the Scenes Bonus - How would you like to disappear?

**“***It's all just so wonderful I can't get away***”**
— **Alan Burgon****, How would you like to disappear?**

Behind the Scenes Bonus Episode to Season 1.

Alan Burgon, Julia C. Thorne, Philip Thorne and Oystein Ulsberg Brager talk about the origins of The Amelia Project and discuss how they would like to disappear

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## Summary

### Main Story

*The following is a summary written for this wiki. It only hits the major points of the episode and, as such, should not be used as a substitute for listening to the episode as intended by the creators.*
The episode opens with Alan Burgon as The Interviewer asking the group to introduce themselves. They quickly get sidetracked by the chocolate that Øystein brought.

They discuss how Øystein and Pip met at college and started collaborating. Øystein had directed a play in which he kidnapped his audience on the way to the theatre, and this interested Pip. They continued to work together, and they even convinced their tutors to let them do their graduation piece together. After university, they created Imploding Fictions together and toured various countries with performances. One time, Øystein got held in an airport for over 24 hours for having a prop gun in his luggage.

When Pip moved to Paris and became a dad it was difficult to collaborate in the same way, but after a meeting in a Waterstones in London (that involved a chance encounter with Alan Davis in the bathroom) they realised they could use the format of a podcast to continue working together and came up with the concept of the agency.

When Pip sent scripts to Julia she loved them and took the idea to Alan who after reading some of the episodes decided his company wanted to work together to create the podcast.

They then discuss the cocoa that is The Interviewer's favourite drink and how they personally feel about cocoa.

Finally, they each say their preferred method of disappearance, and how they would want to reappear. Julia would want to go flying off of the chair-plane in Vienna and never be found, before reappearing again in Vienna as a board-game cafe owner. Pip says he would disappear from a metro carriage in between two stops, and reappear in Venice as a fisherman. Alan would want to get whisked away by a large production company to Hollywood and come back later to create a theatre. Øystein discussed the question with his wife beforehand, who said that if he disappeared she would go look for him, and when he reminded her that she would think he was dead and so wouldn't look, she concluded that after that conversation now she would. So, he says he would need to disappear in a way that seems that he hadn't disappeared, but cannot think of a foolproof method.

### Epilogue

Øystein's wife, Leeanne Stoddart, bursts into the room, demanding to know where he is. The others all say they do not know.

## Quotes

**“***I asked you for your name, not your last disease.***”**
— **"The Interviewer" (Alan Burgon)****, after hearing Øystein's name**

**“***Shut up Pip. I don't trust you. You're a magician.***”**
— **Leanne Stoddart**

## Cast

* Alan Burgon
* Julia C. Thorne
* Philip Thorne
* Øystein U. Brager
* Leeanne Stoddart

## Credits

This bonus episode features Alan Burgon, Julia C. Thorne. Philip Thorne, Leeanne Stoddart, and Øystein U. Brager. Edited by Øystein U. Brager, music and sound design by Fredrik Baden. Recorded at Tongeber Studios with the assistance of Gabriel Geber.

## Notes

* The chewing of Norwegian chocolate can be heard throughout the episode, particularly at the start. Pip blames Øystein since he brought it to the studio.
* This behind the scenes episode does not have Fredrik from the main crew in it, but they discuss the music design for The Amelia Project in Liquified Marzipan - Sound Design Bonus Episode.
* Alan Davis now has a standing invitation to play a part on The Amelia Project.
* This episode was temporarily labelled episode 4 while the Elizabeth Barlow episode was off the feed.
* The prologue episode for this special, Beer, was removed when Elizabeth Barlow was reuploaded due to being unable to backdate episodes but being allowed to overwrite uploads.