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North by NorthamptonshireSeries 3
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In the small market town of Wadenbrook, Ken and Keith have a birthday to celebrate. Stars Sheila Hancock. From December 2013.

Relationships have come and gone but life continues in Wadenbrook and Ken and Keith have a birthday to celebrate.

Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the residents of a small town in Northamptonshire.

Written by Katherine Jakeways.

As is well-known: Yorkshiremen wear flat caps and Essex girls wear short skirts; Liverpudlians are scallies and Cockneys are wideboys.

Northamptonians gaze wistfully at these stereotypes and wish for an identity of any kind and a label less ridiculous than Northamptonians. Northamptonshire, let us be clear, is neither north, nor south nor in the Midlands. It floats somewhere between the three eyeing up the distinctiveness of each enviously.

Katherine Jakeways gives Northamptonshire an identity. And she waits, eagerly, for her home-county to thank her. And possibly make her some kind of Mayor.

Narrator ...... Sheila Hancock
Rod ...... Tim Key
Frank ...... Rufus Wright
Mary ...... Penelope Wilton
Jonathan ...... Kevin Eldon
Esther ...... Katherine Jakeways
Keith ...... John Biggins
Norman ...... Geoffrey Palmer
Jan ...... Felicity Montagu

Producer: Steven Canny

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 14 Jan 202503:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Credits

NarratorSheila Hancock
RodTim Key
FrankRufus Wright
MaryPenelope Wilton
JonathanKevin Eldon
EstherKatherine Jakeways
KeithJohn Biggins
NormanGeoffrey Palmer
JanFelicity Montagu
ProducerSteven Canny
WriterKatherine Jakeways

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