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Growing Pains

1. Teamwork

Duration: 6 hours

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

Available for years

Pat fancies the idea of fostering children.

But can she convert her husband Tom and family to her way of thinking?

Starring Ray Brooks and Sharon Duce.

Steve Wetton’s six-part series featuring the Hollingsworth family.

Carpet salesman Tom and wife Pat have three children, Mark [15], Lisa [14] and Simon [12]. Pat, her older sister, Miriam - a lecturer - and their mother moved south from Yorkshire 25 years previously.

With no plans to have more children of her own, and no means of income, Pat feels that fostering may be the way forward.

Tom Hollingsworth …. Ray Brooks
Pat Hollingsworth …. Sharon Duce
Gran .... Jean Heywood
Miriam .... Jacqueline Tong
Mark .... Richard Pearce
Lisa .... Tika Viker-Bloss
Simon .... Nicholas Delve
Caroline Thornley .... Susan Sheridan

Producer: Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1989. Show less

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