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On Mardle Fen

Series 6

Part 1: Mardle End, part 1

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

By Nick Warburton. Trevor Peacock is back as eccentric chef Warwick Hedges. In the sixth and final series of this comedy drama, set in the Cambridgeshire Fens, Warwick goes in search of a magical, golden paradise...somewhere on Mardle Fen.

Directed by Claire Grove

Two new dramas from master-storyteller Nick Warburton take this popular comedy drama series out on a high. Trevor Peacock is back as inspirational chef Warwick Hedges - Mr Toad meets King Lear - who runs an up market restaurant in the Cambridgeshire Fens. His son Jack, played by Sam Dale, works alongside his father, which makes him permanently anxious. They are assisted by Samuel, played by John Rowe, an earthy odd-job man "who crawled out of the slime with the eels" and Zofia, a Polish waitress, now a single parent with a baby called Dillie. The mixture of food, family relationships and Fenland legend is handled with Nick Warburton's characteristic deft comic touch.

Trevor Peacock is a brilliant character actor best known as the bumbling Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley. At 82 he is still at the top of his game, appearing earlier this year alongside Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins and Michael Gambon in Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut film Quartet.

Nick Warburton has written over 30 plays for BBC Radios 3, 4, 5, 7 and BBC World Service. He was joint winner of the BBC/Radio Times Drama award for Conversations From the Engine Room and winner of the Tinniswood Award for best radio play of 2005, Beast. He's a regular writer for BBC TV's medical series, Holby City and Doctors, and has also written for Eastenders and Born & Bred. His numerous stage plays include a recent double-bill at Alan Ayckbourn's Stephen Joseph Theatre. He is author of seven novels for children and young adults. Show less

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