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The East Coast Listening Post: Series 1: Old Money

Old Money

Series 1

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Jenna and Dana get a glimpse of the dying embers of old British aristocracy.

4 Extra Debut. Jenna and Dana get a glimpse of what remains of the old British aristocracy. With Celeste Dring and Freya Parker. From 2017.

The East Coast Listening Post was created by Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated duo Lazy Susan. 

Journalist sisters, Jenna and Dana, tour the UK and interview its inhabitants in their quest to reveal something meaningful, inadvertently revealing themselves in the process. 

In this first episode, they get a glimpse of the dying embers of the old British aristocracy.

They go and stay with two elderly sisters, Gilly and Sally, whose neighbours are up in arms over the behaviour of the elder sibling who refuses to grow old gracefully. 

Will the old aristocrats win round their neighbours by throwing a party in their honour?

Written and performed by Celeste Dring and Freya Parker.

With performances from:

David Elms
Sally Grace
Maggie Ollerenshaw  

Producer:  Suzy Grant 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2017.

The East Coast Listening Post: Series 1

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