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Katie Hims - The Disappearance of Shirley McGill

Shirley has put up with marriage to the overbearing Vernon for 20 years. She turns to her only friend, the butcher, for solace. Stars Lesley Manville. From February 2003.

Shirley has put up with marriage to the overbearing Vernon for 20 years. Her only friend is the butcher, and it's to the butcher she turns when she discovers that - in spite of plenty of greens and red meat - she becomes at first translucent and then completely invisible.

Stars Lesley Manville as Shirley McGill, Philip Jackson as Vernon McGill, Shaun Dingwall as the Butcher, Emma Woolliams as the Police Officer and Scott Brooksbank as the Croupier.

Written by Katie Hims.

Producer: Jeremy Mortimer.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.

45 minutes

Last on

Mon 13 Nov 201721:15
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  • Mon 13 Nov 201721:15
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