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Drama on 4

Hatch, Match and Dispatch

A Certain Date by Alan Harris

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for 5 months

Geoff Levine, aka the Slim Reaper, is a pest control technician. All day long he kills rats and other vermin. Until Mystic June tells him something that will alter the rest of his life – what's left of it anyway.

A surreal and darkly comic exploration of the meaning of death. With talking pigeons.

A series of linked plays that start in a Register Office and end in either a birth, a marriage or a death.

Geoff ..... Julian Lewis Jones
Valmai ..... Sara McGaughey
Sandy ..... Katy Owen
Mystic June ..... Lisa Palfrey
Doctor Ramis ..... Richard Mitchley
Pigeon ..... Sion Pritchard
King Rat ..... Michael Bertenshaw

Written by Alan Harris
Directed by Helen Perry

A BBC Cymru Wales production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Show less

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