North by Northamptonshire: Full Stop

It's New Year's Eve!

The inhabitants of Wadenbrook have recently performed their own amateur-production of My Fair Lady.

So they're excited to be off to see a professional and starry production at Birmingham's Hippodrome.

Former school teacher Mary has, of course, organised the trip, with a rather uncharacteristic ulterior motive at the end of it.

The indefatigable Norman will come along too, spurred on at the thought of seeing Strictly dancer Flavia Cacace in the flesh.

Long suffering Jan's excited about the qualities Lionel Blair will bring to the role of Higgins, and gentle Jonathan follows wherever Jan goes. (As long as his ex-wife Esther and the cuckoo Orson don't object).

At least they will have Ken and Keith there - Wadenbrook's most enduring couple and the cement that binds them all together and a badly kept secret that everyone's bursting to tell.

Narrator ... Sheila Hancock

Esther and Radio DJ ... Katherine Jakeways
Jan ... Felicity Montagu
Keith ... John Biggins
Ken and Jonathan ... Kevin Eldon
Mary ... Penelope Wilton
Norman ... Geoffrey Palmer
Orson ... Simon Kane

Written by Katherine Jakeways

Script Editor: Richard Turner

Producer: Julia Mckenzie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2015.