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Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully

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Sitcom about an alien invasion of a small English village, written by Eddie Robson.

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Hattie Morahan

Peter Davison

Jan Francis

Hannah Murray

Julian Rhind-Tutt

John-Luke Roberts

Jane Slavin

Elaine Claxton

Ed Morrish

Eddie Robson

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Tempting Fete

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Tempers rise preparing for the village fete, and Lucy discovers guitar irritates aliens.

Tempers rise over the village fete, and Lucy discovers that Kat's guitar irritates aliens. Stars Peter Davison. From 2014.

Lucy borrows Kat's guitar and finds that this machine irritates aliens. 

Meanwhile tempers are fraught as preparations are made for the annual village fete, and Richard receives some surprising news from The Computer.

Eddie Robson's sitcom about aliens invading the village of Cresdon Green.

Starring Hattie Morahan and Peter Davison.

Noticing all-at-once invasions of Earth never work out too well, these aliens have locked villagers behind an impenetrable force-field in order to study human behaviour and to decide if Earth is worth invading.

The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for a weekend to borrow the deposit for a flat.

So along with Lucy Alexander (the only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against whatever you've got) she formed The Resistance - slightly to the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard.

This is also much to the annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his unintelligible minions and The Computer (his hyper-intelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run the alien invasion.

Katrina Lyons    ......    Hattie Morahan
Richard Lyons    ......    Peter Davison
Margaret Lyons    ......    Jan Francis
Lucy Alexander    ......    Hannah Murray
Field Commander Uljabaan    ......    Julian Rhind-Tutt
Computer    ......    John-Luke Roberts
Madeleine    ......    Jane Slavin
Penny    ......    Elaine Claxton

Script-edited by Arthur Mathews.

Original music written and performed by Grace Petrie.  

Producer: Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.

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