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Drama on 4: The Eggy Doylers

The Eggy Doylers

22/05/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Eggy Doylers

Jane Purcell's riotous comedy follows a hapless school field trip in the un-PC 1970s.

By Jane Purcell. Riotous comedy set in the un-PC 1970s. It's 1979, and child-hating PE teacher Peter Gunn finds himself leading a school biology field trip from hell.

by Jane Purcell

A saucy comedy about the pre-PC age. It's 1979, before the National Curriculum, lesson plans or risk assessment forms. In those heady days, when flares were still fashion items rather than emergency equipment, child-hating PE teacher Peter Gunn finds himself leading a school biology field trip which veers a long way from the straight and narrow educational path. 

Peter Gunn ..... Ralph Ineson
Maggie Beecham ..... Lydia Leonard
Ferret ..... Joseph Drake
Ellen ..... Amaka Okafor
Linda ..... Louise Brealey
Wayne ..... Alex Lanipekun
with Sam Alexander, Robert Blythe, Guy Rudin and Joe Sims.

Producer/Director Jonquil Panting.

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