Charlotte and Lillian

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Comedy by about a young charity volunteer and the old lady she has been paired with.

Comedy by Holly Walsh and Kat Sommers about a young charity volunteer and the old lady she has been paired with. With Miriam Margolyes and Helen Monks.

Helen Monks

Miriam Margolyes

Holly Walsh

Kat Sommers

Lucy Armitage

Charlotte and Lillian: Series 1: The Introduction

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Series 1

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A young charity volunteer meets the old lady she has been paired with for the first time.

4 Extra Debut. Charlotte volunteers with the elderly, only to meet Lillian who’s annoyed she might misses Flog It! With Helen Monks. From 2017.

In the throes of splitting up from her boyfriend, 29-year-old Charlotte is determined to prove she's not as self-centred as he says she is. 

She signs up as a volunteer to visit the elderly, expecting to be paired with a frail and needy old lady who's full of gratitude and appreciation for such a selfless act. Instead she meets 82-year-old Lillian, a belligerent and feisty old bat who sees through her in an instant. 

Needless to say, they don't get on - but Charlotte and Lillian's conflicting outlooks on life belie a striking similarity in their personalities. Both are profoundly selfish, self-involved and stubborn; both are quietly curious about each other (though they'd never dream of admitting it); and both are lonely.

With every visit, their arguments grow more heated, the resolutions more uneasy and the outcomes more entertaining, as Charlotte and Lillian discover eye-opening truths about themselves and each other.

Starring Helen Monks as Charlotte and Miriam Margolyes as Lillian.

Written by Holly Walsh and Kat Sommers

Recorded on location.
 
As the series opens, Charlotte arrives -late - at Lillian's flat, fresh from another argument with her soon-to-be-ex. She's expecting a grateful, attentive old lady, so is pretty put out when Lillian seems more concerned with that afternoon's edition of Flog It!. Lillian, on the other hand, is irritated by the constant chirrups from Charlotte's phone and how Charlotte can't stop looking at it.

Neither of them is expecting things to develop so speedily.

Producer	Lucy Armitage

A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in September 2017.

Charlotte and Lillian: Series 1

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Comedy about a young charity volunteer and the old lady she has been paired with.

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