Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,20 Oct 2022,44 mins

Talking to Chickens

Drama on 4

Available for over a year

Darkly comic, heart-warming drama by award-winning writer Christine Entwisle. Toots is an octogenarian living unhappily in a care home. She wants more outdoor days, she wants her allotment back and she wants to see her chickens. A doctor is sent to assess Toots. But she's menopausal and struggling with a variety of unhelpful symptoms. And when the doctor forces open Toots’ window to relieve a hot flush and then forgets to shut it, Toots makes a break for it. Cast: Toots… Susan Jameson The Doctor… Rosie Cavaliero The Policeman… Dennis Herdman Trevor…Danny Hughes Sound Design by Craig Dormer Directed by Kirsty Williams

Programme Website
More episodes