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Handle with prayer. The tangled life of a sometimes less than virtuous vicar.

Handle with prayer. The tangled life of a sometimes less than virtuous vicar. Award-winning comedy with Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman.

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Tom Hollander

Olivia Colman

Steve Evets

Miles Jupp

Lucy Liemann

Simon McBurney

Ellen Thomas

Hugh Boneville

Jimmy Akingbola

Lu Corfield

Ben Willbond

Christine Lampard

Adrian Chiles

Jonathan Dimbleby

Derek Elroy

John Humphrys

Peter Cattaneo

Kenton Allen

Hannah Pescod

James Wood

Rev.: Series 1: Episode 4

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Episode 4

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Adam succumbs to envy when he hears an old rival on Thought for the Day.

Comedy about a vicar running an inner-city church. Adam attempts to climb the greasy media pole and make a career of his vocation as he competes with an old rival.

Meet the Rev Adam Smallbone. He is a Church of England vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the inner-city world of St Saviour's in east London. It is a world he has little experience of, and it shows.

It is an incredibly difficult job being a good, modern, city vicar. Equally, it is a very hard job being married to one. Alex, Adam's long-suffering wife, does her best to support him, but she has her own career as a solicitor to worry about. Plus she is no one's idea of a conventional vicar's wife.

Every day throws up a moral conflict. All are welcome at St Saviour's and Adam can't turn any of them away, even if they are clearly lying or just plain annoying.

Adam succumbs to envy when he hears an old rival on Thought for the Day. But his own attempts to make a career of his vocation spectacularly backfire. An ill-advised comment on the One Show about homosexuality within the church results in orders from the Archdeacon to take media instruction from the very vicar Adam was trying to outdo. 

And while Adam neglects his pastoral duties in favour of climbing the greasy pole, Colin looks for meaning outside of St Saviour's and decides to dabble in the Rastafari religion.

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The Reverend Adam Smallbone tries to adjust to life as a modern city vicar

Sitcom about a vicar running a modern inner-city church, with a reluctant wife and a depleted, motley congregation

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