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Dark sitcom about Ben living a fantasy life while lying in a coma. Stars Neil Pearson.

Dark sitcom about Ben living a fantasy life of his own creation - while his family argue over him from the real world. Starring Neil Pearson.

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Disraeli arrives to deconstruct the characters and folk in Ben's life.

Disraeli arrives to deconstruct the characters and folk in Ben's life. Starring Neil Pearson and Matthew Kelly. From December 2009.

Ben begins to resent being pushed around.

He imagines a different life back in Victorian times when he might have got things his own way a bit more often.

But then he gets into an argument with Benjamin Disraeli...

Starring Neil Pearson.

Nigel Smith's dark sitcom about a man in a coma, travelling through the distinctly odd landscape of his own unconscious mind.

Ben ...... Neil Pearson
Mary ...... Fiona Allen
Mum ...... Josie Lawrence
Blitz ...... Leslie Ash
Nurse ...... Jo Martin
Derek ...... Stephen Frost
Marley ...... Spencer Brown
Disraeli ...... Matthew Kelly
Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith
Grocer ...... Nigel Hastings

Director: Nigel Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009.

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Dark comedy series about a man lying in hospital in a coma, written by Nigel Smith

Dark comedy series about a man lying in hospital in a coma, who lives out a fantasy life of his own creation while his family argue over him from the real world. Written by Nigel S

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