Romantic Friction

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Romantic Friction: Episode 1: Thwarted

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Episode 1: Thwarted

Thwarted

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Romantic Friction, Thwarted

Deadline looming, lovelorn romance writer Anna has met a real-live man.

Deadline looming, lovelorn romance writer Anna has met a real-live man. Stars Samantha Bond and Hugh Bonneville. From June 2000.

Lovelorn romance writer Anna is up against a deadline for her latest potboiler, a tale of love, suffering and jealousy. 

But her creative juices don't seem to be flowing as, after years of having a purely fictional love-life, she's met a real-live man. 

She's also constantly thwarted by her characters, who keep leaping off the page into her living room to challenge her about their plotlines. 

Starring Samantha Bond and Hugh Bonneville. 

Michelle Read's four-part comedy-drama series.  

Anna    ......    Samantha Bond
Brian    ......    Hugh Bonneville
Deirdre    ......    Beth Chambers
Fertility Doll    ......    Adjoa Andoh 
Book    ......    Michael Fenton Stevens 

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000.

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Comic tale of a writer whose latest romance novel is interrupted by meeting a real man

Samantha Bond and Hugh Bonneville star in this tale of a writer whose latest romance novel is interrupted by meeting a real man

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