Conversations from a Long Marriage

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Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a long-married couple trying to keep the passion alive.

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a long-married couple. Their conversations are practical, passionate, hilarious - and familiar to every couple. Written by Jan Etherington.

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Conversations from a Long Marriage: Series 1: 2. Sally's Your Friend

2. Sally's Your Friend

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Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a long-married couple with a broken-hearted house guest

Life is disrupted by a broken-hearted house guest with a dog. But for how long? Stars Roger Allam and Joanna Lumley. From 2020.

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married ‘for ever’. 

Children of the 60s, they’re still free spirits, drawn together by their passion for music and each other. Their warm and witty conversations dance around everyday chores and appointments as well as dealing with problems within long-held friendships, and tackling their own frustrations with each other.  But underlying it all is their enduring love for each other and their desire to keep the passion alive.

This time, their together time is severely hampered by their broken-hearted house guest and her dog. Just how long are they going to stay?

Written for Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam by award-winning comedy writer and journalist Jan Etherington, who’s been married for 35 years to Gavin Petrie, with whom she created many hit radio and TV series (Second Thoughts, Next of Kin, Faith in the Future, The Change). Conversations from a Long Marriage is her first solo narrative comedy series.

Producer:  Claire Jones

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2020.

Conversations from a Long Marriage: Series 1

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a long-married couple, with a passion for music and each other.

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