The Simon Day Show

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The Simon Day Show: Series 2: Tommy Cockles

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Entertainer Tommy Cockles is at the Mallard Theatre, and finds it transformed.

Blazer-wearing entertainer Tommy Cockles is at the Mallard Theatre and finds it transformed. With Felix Dexter. From May 2012.

Simon Day and his characters welcome you once again to The Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK.

Hear highlights of the stage show, plus all the backstage and front-of-house happenings.

Popular, blazered entertainer Tommy Cockles arrives to fine the theatre transformed. 

There's a new Nigerian owner, soundman Goose has been replaced by an authoritarian ex-copper and receptionist Catherine has disappeared off to India to find herself.

Written by Simon Day.

Tommy Cockles ..... Simon Day
Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd
Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter
Pat Bennet ..... Morwenna Banks
Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall

Producer: Colin Anderson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2012.

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