North East Of Eden

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North East of Eden: Cinema Paradiso

North East of Eden

Cinema Paradiso

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Mad Max versus the French resistance. Or rather, two rival island film nights fight it out

Mad Max versus the French resistance. Or rather, two rival island film nights fight it out. Stars Rebecca Front. From July 1997.

Marcia decides to inject a little culture into Paradise and starts a film club. 

But will French art triumph over Mad Max III? Probably not.

Starring Rebecca Front and Joan Sims.

Peter Kerry's sitcom about a GP living on Paradise Island off the coast of Northumbria.

Dr Marcia Hulme …. Rebecca Front
Auntie Annie …. Joan Sims
Hjorst …. Niall Ashdown
Joseph …. James Garbutt
Mrs Peevis …. Jean Southern
Ralph …. Stephen Thirkeld
William …. Sammy Johnson

Producer: Kathy Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997.

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Marcia quits sophisticated London for a doctor's surgery on a remote Northumbrian island

Sophisticated metropolitan GP Marcia inherits a medical practice on the remote and windswept island of Paradise. Sitcom by Peter Kerry, starring Rebecca Front and Joan Sims.

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