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Patrick Marber and Peter Curran grapple in the dark with the wonders and woes of life.

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Bunk Bed: Series 6: Episode 1

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Patrick Marber and Peter Curran with enchanting, low-energy pillow talk.

From under the sheets, Peter Curran and Patrick Marber deal with surprises found in their dead fathers belongings. From 2019.

Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. 

Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, in the dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander.

This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and Peter Curran. 

Here they endeavour to get the heart of things in an entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place for typical male banter.

From under the bed clothes, they play each other music and old bits of BBC Archive. Life, death, work and family are their slightly warped conversational currency.

Peter and Patrick deal with their worst reviews, and surprises found in the belongings of their dead fathers.

Producer: Peter Curran

A Foghorn production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2019.

Bunk Bed: Series 6

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Patrick Marber and Peter Curran stumble through the darkness in conversation.

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