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The Allotment

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BBC Radio 4 - The Allotment

Quirky comedy on an allotment where people lose their worries amongst the birds and bees.

4 Extra Debut. Forget your troubles on the allotment, but emotions stir in the undergrowth. Stars Esther Coles and Paul Whitehouse. From 2017.

Esther takes refuge from a troubled world on her allotment where she finds serenity among the vegetables and loses herself in her beekeeping. 

While daughter Molly uses the shed as a makeshift study for her exams love-sick Robert has come to ask Esther to take him on a tour of her bee hive, but the spell is broken when Geoff wades in in a makeshift beekeeping outfit in search of his stolen pumpkin.

Welcome to a quirky, warm world where troubles get lost in the long grass and small things can bring contentment.

Written by and starring Esther Coles (BBC Two's ‘Nurse’).

Esther    ......    Esther Coles
Robert    ......    Mark Benton
Geoff    ......    Paul Whitehouse
Molly    ......    Patricia Allison
Sally    ......    Arabella Weir
Grandma Maggs    ......    Jane Horrocks

Producer: Gareth Edwards

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in October 2017.

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