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Cabin Pressure

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Sitcom about an airline for whom no job is too small but many, many jobs are too difficult

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A cat and a thermostat and Bristol combine to present Martin with a career-breaking crisis

Taking off with a bump for pilot Martin - the ups and downs of a tiny charter airline. Stars Stephanie Cole. From July 2008.

Sitcom about the crew of a tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. 

Starring Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam.

The city of Bristol, a cat and a thermostat combine to present Martin with a career-breaking crisis.

Carolyn Knapp-Shappey …. Stephanie Cole
First Officer Douglas Richardson …. Roger Allam
Capt Martin Crieff …. Benedict Cumberbatch
Arthur Shappey …. John Finnemore
ATC Fitton …. Ewen MacIntosh

Written by John Finnemore, writer for The News Quiz, The Now Show, and That Mitchell & Webb Sound.

Produced and directed by David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for the BBC, first broadcast on Radio 4 in July 2008.

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