Original version

BBC Radio 4 LW

BBC Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 FM

Ardal O'Hanlon

Geoff McGivern

Esther Smith

Mike Wozniak

Ruth Bratt

Duncan Wisbey

Mark Daydy

Ben Worsfield

The Best Laid Plans: Caution: Angel At Work

The Best Laid Plans

Caution: Angel At Work

BBC Radio 4 - The Best Laid Plans, Caution: Angel At Work

Ardal O'Hanlon plays an idiot angel who's sent to earth to fix his mistakes.

Smallbone gets a job in customer service at a supermarket, but ends up leading a protest. Stars Ardal O'Hanlon. From 2015.

Smallbone gets a job in a supermarket and tries his hand at customer service. 

But when a fully automated, super-brain self-service checkout system threatens the workers' jobs, Smallbone finds himself leading the protest against the store.
 
Ardal O'Hanlon plays Smallbone - an idiot angel who's sent to earth to fix his mistakes - in Mark Daydy's sitcom.

In 1885, God (Geoff McGivern) nodded off. In 2015, he awoke to discover that his idiot servant, the angel Smallbone, had accidentally handed out God's plans for the next millennium when he was only meant to hand out plans for the next century. A thousand years of leisurely human progression has been crammed into the last 130. No wonder we're all so stressed. We weren't even meant to have pocket calculators until 2550.

Not only that, but God's blueprints should have run out in the mid-eighties – but we kept going. Humans are now inventing things God never even dreamed of - mobile phones, wireless internet and Made in Chelsea.

Smallbone is cast down to Earth in human form by God, tasked with the dauntingly vague mission of 'reversing the last thirteen decades of human progression'. The problem is that Smallbone is the world's biggest fan - he loves modern technology and his new human body, and he becomes distracted by everything that he's meant to destroy. Especially escalators.

Smallbone.......Ardal O'Hanlon
God.................Geoff McGivern
Tanya..............Esther Smith
Toby................Mike Wozniak
Susan..............Ruth Bratt
Supporting Roles: Duncan Wisbey and Ruth Bratt

Written by Mark Daydy

Produced by Ben Worsfield.
A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Comedy

Comedy: Sitcoms

Sitcom by Mark Daydy. An idiot angel who is sent to earth to fix his mistakes.

Sitcom by Mark Daydy. Ardal O'Hanlon plays Smallbone, an idiot angel who is sent to earth to fix his mistakes.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

The Best Laid Plans

Caution: Angel At Work

Contributors

Genres

Series

BBC Radio 4 LW

About BBC Radio 4