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Marcella Evaristi's sly take on contemporary parenting

Marcella Evaristi's sly take on contemporary parenting looks at a divorced North London family through the prism of two go-betweening siblings

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The Gobetweenies: Series 2

Mark Bonnar

Sarah Alexander

Finlay Christie

Phoebe Abbott

Nicky Henson

Marilyn Imrie

Gordon Kennedy

The Gobetweenies: Series 2: Episode 2: Happy Father's Day

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Happy Father's Day

BBC Radio 4 - The Gobetweenies, Series 2, Happy Father's Day

Tom discovers Grandad in a stool-softening ad. Lucy figures Dad needs a classy present.

Tom discovers Grandad in a stool-softening ad. Lucy figures Dad needs a classier present. Stars Mark Bonnar. From July 2012.

Mark Bonnar and Sarah Alexander star as the exes determined to be double- not single-parents and bring their kids up together apart.

But Lucy has noticed the difference between her affluent mum, a children's fiction writer, and her broke dad who has just started a new job with Your Pets Painted in the Afterlife.com. She figures her dad he needs a proper Father's Day present, and her tuba has served it's purpose of getting her into that good state school where she doesn't get bricks thrown at her head. So why not take a visit to the pawn shop? 

Her mum Mimi's young life was blighted by a no-show actor dad but she has fibbed to her kids, telling them her missing magical dad suffered from Dramnesia. When Tom discovers his granddad is starring in a stool-softening advert he invites him to visit. Won't his mum be delighted? 

Director: Marilyn Imrie
Producer: Gordon Kennedy
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