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Gloomsbury: Series 5

The hit BBC Radio 4 comedy

Author: Sue Limb  

Miriam Margolyes and Alison Steadman star in the fifth BBC Radio 4 series of this wickedly funny parody of the Bloomsbury Group.

Accompanied by Ginny and Lionel, they are enjoying a last-minute whirlwind of pleasure in the City of Love when Venus arrives with some dreadful news...Nigel Planer, Morwenna Banks, Nigel Planer, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions star in these six episodes of the superbly funny literary sitcom.

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Miriam Margolyes and Alison Steadman star in the fifth BBC Radio 4 series of this wickedly funny parody of the Bloomsbury Group.

Accompanied by Ginny and Lionel, they are enjoying a last-minute whirlwind of pleasure in the City of Love when Venus arrives with some dreadful news...Nigel Planer, Morwenna Banks, Nigel Planer, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions star in these six episodes of the superbly funny literary sitcom.

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The complete fifth series of Sue Limb's satirical send-up of the Bloomsbury Group.

In this fifth series, our arty, adulterous Bohemians are creating havoc at home and abroad. Henry is hoping to ignore his fiftieth birthday - but Vera has organised a surprise party. When Venus sneaks in uninvited and makes a nuisance of herself in the bushes, Henry wants to head for the hills. Fortunately, a lecture tour of America beckons...

In the USA, Vera meets Dorothy Barker at the Algonquin, while Henry rubs shoulders with Al Padrone en route to Chicago. Meanwhile, a cottage on the Sizzlinghurst estate has become vacant, and everybody wants it.

Returning from the States, Henry seeks election as a Labour Party candidate, while Ginny talks socialism with George Gurnard Shaw. Vera decides she wants another child, but Henry whisks her off to Paris for a fling before the war starts. Accompanied by Ginny and Lionel, they are enjoying a last-minute whirlwind of pleasure in the City of Love when Venus arrives with some dreadful news...

Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Nigel Planer, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions star in these six episodes of the superbly funny literary sitcom star in these six episodes of the superbly funny literary sitcom star in these six episodes of the superbly funny literary sitcom.

'... one of the funniest, slyest, most naughtily inventive and brilliantly performed shows on the air' Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph

'A gloriously silly show' The Lady

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“"... one of the funniest, slyest, most naughtily inventive and brilliantly performed shows on the air" - Gillian Reynolds - The Daily Telegraph”

A gloriously silly show The Lady ... one of the funniest, slyest, most naughtily inventive and brilliantly performed shows on the air -- Gillian Reynolds The Daily Telegraph

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About the Author

Sue Limb is a British writer and broadcaster. Her work includes novels - many of them for young adults - and a sitcom for ITV television and BBC Radio 4, Up the Garden Path. For Radio 4, she has written a number of comedy series: The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere , The Sit Crom, Four Joneses and a Jenkins and Alison and Maud; and also Growing Pains (a documentary about ageing), Hilaire Belloc, and Cities (six programmes of literary anthology).

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Product Details

Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd | BBC Physical Audio
Published
22nd November 2018
ISBN
9781787531055

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