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4-0).The pair ended up cornered in a corridor of the stadium and were only saved from a kicking when Barnes appeared."It was a bit obvious but they really liked it and it was broadcast," said Ishy.He carried on working the cabs -Snookered was written on a laptop in between jobs as he worked."I used to deliberately work the graveyard shift, so I would get time in between jobs to furiously type away in my cab, coming up with ideas for this play," he said.Much of the inspiration came from the chats he had with fares.Ishy once worked out he had around 160,000 conversations in his cab."That vast experience of life gives you an ear for how people talk, ideas for characters, little stories, little incidents that you remember and feed into your work.Writers are magpie-like.Life is our raw material."Over the years his radio credits since include Life's Like That and Parking and Pakoras.He has written another full-length play, Wipers, about the first Asian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross, which premiered at Leicester Curve in 2016.After that he collaborated on two seasons of the Channel 4 drama Ackley Bridge.In 2018, his work Taxi Tales was part of BBC2's Performance Live series.Not bad for a man who hates writing."I like talking about writing and what I'm going to write," he laughed, "it's the doing that's so hard.