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Hard to Tell

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Comedy telling a couple's love story through their conversations with friends and family

Comedy by Jonny Sweet that tells its central love story through the conversations the couple has with family and friends

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Hard to Tell: Series 2

Julia Davis

Simon Greenall

Alex Macqueen

Charlotte Ritchie

Sarah Solemani

Jonny Sweet

Sophie Thompson

Katy Wix

Lucy Armitage

Hard to Tell: Series 2: Episode 1

Series 2

Episode 1

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Tom and Ellen organise a night out so that their parents can meet.

Couple Tom and Ellen organise a night out so their parents can meet. Stars Jonny Sweet and Julia Davis. From November 2013.

Second series of the relationship comedy written by Jonny Sweet.

It tells its central love story through the couple's individual conversations with their family and friends. In the process, we are introduced to all manner of relationships from a father and his cherished tour van to two women rivalling for the position of Best Friend, from a brother and sister comparing notes on Brazilians to a vicar and his new parish, and from a lodger's historic fling with a local waitress to a mum's lack of control over her desire to monitor her son's life.

Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to restaurants, funerals, French dressers and monkey puzzle trees. 

Jonny Sweet is also the writer of Radio 4's Party and co-writer/co-star of Chickens on Sky 1.


Episode 1: 
Tom and Ellen organize a night out so that their parents can meet. Ellen's Dad's lodger invites herself along, while Tom's Mum and Dad decide to open up about an aspect of Tom's lifestyle that's been troubling them.

Producer: Lucy Armintage
A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4.

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