The East Coast Listening Post

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The East Coast Listening Post: Series 2: Tattoo

Tattoo

Series 2

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Jenna and Dana meet Bella Watson, a woman with a Union Jack tattoo on her forehead.

Jenna and Dana meet Bella Watson who drunkenly got a Union Jack tattoo whilst on holiday. With Celeste Dring and Freya Parker.

American reporters and sisters, Jenna and Dana Johnson, are back in the UK to investigate the people of Great Britain.

Jenna and Dana meet Bella Watson, a woman who drunkenly got a Union jack tattoo on her forehead whilst on holiday with friends. 

They discover that Bella was goaded into getting the tattoo to prove to a bully that she wasn’t a ‘wet’.  

Bella then arranges to meet the bully to forgive them.

Written and performed by Celeste Dring and Freya Parker.

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

With performances from:

David Elms
Kat Bond

Original score by Owain Roberts

Script editor: Matthew Crosby 

Producer:  Suzy Grant 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2019.

The East Coast Listening Post: Series 2

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