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Drama on 4: Holding Back the Tide: I Want to Thank You All

Holding Back the Tide

I Want to Thank You All

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Clare and Richard pay a visit to a famous resident and leave with more than they expected.

Clare and Richard pay a visit to a famous resident and leave with more than they expected when John takes off with what he believes rightly to belong to the town.

by Nick Warburton

Directed by Sally Avens

Comedy as Clare and Richard move to Breck Howe and a house they inherited along with a sitting tenant John Hector. Their lives will never be the same again as Hector entangles them in his preservation of the town. This week they find themselves paying a visit to a famous resident and leaving with more than they expected when John takes off with what he believes rightly to belong to the town.

Drama on 4: Holding Back the Tide

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Nick Warburton's comedy of one group's attempts to halt the modernisation of their town.

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