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.

Katherine has locked herself out of her house on a seemingly quiet and peaceful street in Central London. As she waits for her partner to return with the keys, she begins to realise that she knows nothing of the lives of her neighbours – the people who come and go, who do strange and apparently quite sinister things, and who sleep only a few inches away from her.

Starring Maxine Peake

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

Produced by Joe Nunnery

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