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Alexei Sayle's The Absence of Normal

Series 2

Clive Hole

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Alexei Sayle’s The Absence of Normal, is a series of dark comic plays narrated by Alexei Sayle and adapted for radio from his original short stories.

Clive Hole has a top job in TV commissioning, a chauffeur and a secretary. There’s only one problem. He is completely incapable of making a decision on what to commission and what to turn down. The pressure begins to mount on Clive when two dogged producers, Cherry and Tatum, make it their number one priority to get a decision on their screenplay, Bold as Bacon.

Starring Katheryn Drysdale, Graham Duff, George Fouracres, Georgie Glenn, Tim McInnerny, Alice McMillan, Duncan Wisbey.

Written and narrated by Alexei Sayle. Adapted for Radio by Graham Duff.

Produced by Joe Nunnery

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