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The 27-Year Itch

You're Never Too Old to Stay at Home

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Dorothy and Edward visit Clacton to try and pep up their marriage.

Dorothy and Edward Atkinson are Sidcup's premier warring couple with a marriage to challenge even the most determined of counsellors.

Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden star in Barry Pilton's marital mayhem sitcom.

Edward ...... Hugh Paddick
Dorothy ...... Betty Marsden

With:

Aubrey Woods
Nigel Lambert

After notching up multiple BBC radio series together of 'Beyond Our Ken' and 'Round the Horne' - most memorably as aging juvenile Binkie Huckaback and Dame Celia Molestrangler - Hugh and Betty were reunited on-air, almost a decade later in 'The 27 Year Itch'.

Producer: Geoffrey Perkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1978. Show less

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