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Hopes and Desires

Drama: Relationships & Romance

Series of romantic comedies centred around people with unconscious yearnings for love

Hopes And Desires

Hopes and Desires: Series 1: The Anniversary Waltz

The Anniversary Waltz

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hopes and Desires, Series 1, The Anniversary Waltz

Bickering deli owners Shirley and Max have a simultaneous life-changing moment.

Bickering deli owners Shirley and Max have a simultaneous life-changing moment. Stars Prunella Scales and Roger Allam. From May 2003.

Max and Shirley bicker all day long in their north London deli. Max believes the customers love their bantering but Shirley's had enough.

There must be more to life than this?

Hopes and Desires is a series of comedies about unconscious yearnings.

Prunella Scales stars in Jeremy Front's comedy drama.

Shirley …. Prunella Scales
Max …. Roger Allam
Roszinka …. Rebecca Front
Girl …. Rosie Fellner
Marcy …. Liza Sadovy
Toastmaster/Old Man …. Bruce Purchase

Director: Peter Kavanagh

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2003.

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