Episode 3

With no live studio audience, John Finnemore took the opportunity to try something completely new.

Every episode in this series of Souvenir Programme is made up of scenes from one person's life, played in reverse order.

There's no narrative to the episode; it's still a sketch show, not a sitcom... but the sketches in each episode all happened to one person, played by one member of the cast, over the course of their lifetime.

This episode follows the life of Jerry, starting earlier this year and going back to a wartime poem in 1943.

Written and performed by John Finnemore

With

Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Lawry Lewin
Simon Kane
Carrie Quinlan

Original music composed by Susannah Pearse
Original music arranged by Susannah Pearse and Tim Sutton
Recorded and edited by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post

Producer: Ed Morrish

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2021.