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The Cathy Durant Show

The Cathy Durant Show

Written by: Cathy Irby Durant
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After many years of producing and directing video and film productions, Producer Director, Cathy Irby Durant returns to her roots in Radio and TV. Join Cathy and be intrigued by Special Guests, Hot Topics and Music. We welcome you, friends and family to watch the Cathy Durant Show created to make a refreshing difference in streaming media. Broadcasting on BBS Radio TV on the iHeart Network on over 150 Stations in 37 Countries. See you soon.Copyright 2026 Cathy Durant Hygiene & Healthy Living Parenting Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Cathy Durant Show, October 20, 2026

    Cathy Durant Show, October 20, 2026
    Oct 21 2026
    Book Author, Doris Ellis-Jackson is the next featured guest on the Cathy Durant Show. Doris shares what inspired her to become an Author and why she decided to write the emotionally, gripping book, “Going Out a Champion,” the Coach Joe Ellis Story. Don’t miss the amazing interview with Doris Ell We are dedicating tonight’s encore to the loving memory of Professor Kimberly Ellis, Doris’s oldest daughter and a great supporter of Going Out a Champion, who has passed away since this interview was recorded. We extend our continued condolences to the Ellis family, her friends, and colleagues. Kimberly is fondly mentioned several times during this conversation, making this encore especially meaningful as we continue working to bring the film to the screen.
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    1 hr
  • Cathy Durant Show, October 6, 2026

    Cathy Durant Show, October 6, 2026
    Oct 7 2026
    Robert “Dr. Doom” Brazile is a Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker and one of the most celebrated players in Houston Oilers history. A first-round draft pick out of Jackson State University, Brazile spent his entire 10-year NFL career (1975–1984) with the Houston Oilers, starting all 147 regular-season games. Known for helping revolutionize the outside linebacker position, he was named the 1975 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, selected to seven consecutive Pro Bowls, earned five consecutive First-Team All-Pro selections and was named to the NFL’s 1970s All-Decade Team. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018. On The Cathy Durant Show, Brazile reflected on what it meant to reach football’s highest honor and be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He also discussed another deeply personal hometown honor: his inclusion in Mobile, Alabama’s Hall of Fame Walk. Brazile is immortalized with a nine-foot bronze statue alongside five fellow Mobile sports legends—Hank Aaron, Satchel Paige, Billy Williams, Ozzie Smith and Willie McCovey. Brazile attended the June 2025 unveiling of the permanent waterfront installation, bringing his remarkable journey from Mobile to the NFL and ultimately back home full circle.
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    58 mins
  • Cathy Durant Show, September 29, 2026

    Cathy Durant Show, September 29, 2026
    Sep 30 2026
    The Cathy Durant Show From Paramedic to Screenwriter: Doctor Who, EastEnders, and the Maverick Script Code with Glen McCoy Glen McCoy is a screenwriter who has written for well know television shows in the UK, been commissioned to write screenplays for features by production houses, has written hundreds of corporate scripts for some of the world’s largest brands and has had his most recent screenplay optioned with pre-production starting in 2027 with well known 'A Listers' as cast. He was on the orginal writing team for long running drama series EASTENDERS as well as two other similar shows and has even written for DOCTOR WHO. His corporate commissions have come from Innocent Drinks, Johnson & Johnson, the UK Home Office, Samsung and Land Rover. He also created and wrote an internal ‘soap’ series for training purposes within Vodafone UK and recently was commissioned by International coaching providers in the UK, OTD for a micro drama series. Glen is also an author with 16 books in print including a Doctor Who novel and business titles like Guerrilla Coaching, Extraordinary Customer Care, Power Presenter and his latest business title BUSINESS SCREENWRITING being published by am American Publisher affiliated to Harvard Publishing. Glen has just launched a brand new YouTube channel: Maverick Script Code with a complete system for screenwriters of any level of experience that’s based on what he’s learned over the past 3 decades - and is completely free for subscribers. UK screenwriter Glen McCoy joins Cathy Irby Durant to trace his path from London paramedic to Doctor Who and EastEnders writer, and to unveil his Maverick Script Code method for teaching screenwriting. Becoming a Screenwriter by Instinct Cathy Irby Durant opens the show by welcoming Glen McCoy, a UK screenwriter and author, as the first professional writer to appear on the program. She asks whether he was born to write or learned to write, and McCoy answers that he believes writers are born, comparing a child who absorbs storytelling from watching television to one who has to relearn it later. He recalls writing his school's play at age ten, a piece he calls "The King Who Took Sunshine," and says that moment felt like the universe telling him to take drama seriously. McCoy explains that before scriptwriting he worked as one of the first paramedics in London and visited a fire station in Ohio, experiences that later fed his stories. He also wrote a nonfiction book on paramedic work and found a publisher, a first step that leads, almost by accident, toward his television career. Durant calls his account heartwarming as the interview gets underway. Landing an Agent and a BBC Commission McCoy describes how he sought literary representation after publishing his paramedic book, cold-calling London's top agency and getting redirected, with a hint of pride, to a "less busy" one. That second agency takes him on, and two weeks later calls to say he has been commissioned to write two episodes of a primetime BBC television show, despite his having never written a script before. He borrows a library book called "How to Write Television Scripts" and works to the deadline, and both scripts are accepted and produced. McCoy says landing so easily made him assume he already knew everything, a decision he now calls "a big, big mistake," because he never went back to learn the craft's tools and techniques properly. That gap later leaves him lost in script meetings full of unfamiliar jargon. He tells Durant his real message to new writers is that confidence in one's storytelling ability matters more than workshops, gurus, or books, though a few essentials still need to be learned along the way. From Medical Dramas to EastEnders McCoy explains that his paramedic background directly shaped his first professional job, since that debut BBC show was a medical drama drawing on real incidents, including what he believes was British television's first depiction of a patient trapped under a train. He credits a script editor named Tony Holland, who deliberately recruited a set number of "baby writers" each year because, in Holland's view, publicly funded broadcasting owed newcomers a way into the craft. Holland later calls McCoy about a new show he is launching, which becomes "EastEnders," and McCoy writes one of its earliest episodes during what he calls an exciting launch period. Durant marvels at the range of well-known British dramas behind him and promises listeners they will next discuss "Doctor Who," teasing that McCoy's own path into that legendary series is just as unlikely as everything that came before it, before the show breaks for a commercial pause. Writing Two Episodes of Doctor Who Back from the break, McCoy tells the story of pitching himself into "Doctor Who" after watching an episode with his son and thinking he could write a better story. His agent initially refuses, warning the show is reserved for experienced writers, then relents by ...
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    1 hr
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