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Thank You, Mrs Fothergill

'Alice Foster, This Is Your Life!'

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for years

In the northern England town of Cloughbottom, it's the Annual General Meeting of the Ladies' Evening Guild.

But there's a surprise in store for the chairman, Alice Foster.

Starring Sheila Hancock and Pat Coombs.

Keith Parry's sitcom about the comic mishaps of the Cloughbottom Ladies' Evening Guild.

Alice Foster ...... Sheila Hancock
Phyllis Middleton ...... Pat Coombs
Mrs Fothergill ...... Avis Bunnage
Ethel and Peggy ...... Clovissa Newcombe

A selection of surviving episodes.

Produced in Manchester by Bob Oliver Rogers.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1978. Show less

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