Expanding the Mind

Edward seeks to expand his mind, with the help of a gentle arm-lock from Dorothy.

Dorothy and Edward Atkinson are Sidcup's premier warring couple with a marriage to challenge even the most determined of counsellors.

Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden star in Barry Pilton's marital mayhem sitcom.

Edward ...... Hugh Paddick
Dorothy ...... Betty Marsden

With:

David Burke
Lewis Fiander
John Gabriel
Geoffrey McGivern

After notching up multiple BBC radio series together of 'Beyond Our Ken' and 'Round the Horne' - most memorably as ageing juvenile Binkie Huckaback and Dame Celia Molestrangler - Hugh and Betty were reunited on-air, almost a decade later in 'The 27 Year Itch'.

Producer: Geoffrey Perkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1979.