The 27-Year Itch

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Seventies marital comedy starring Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick.

The 27-Year Itch: All Play and No Work Makes Jill an Unemployment Statistic

All Play and No Work Makes Jill an Unemployment Statistic

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The 27-Year Itch, All Play and No Work Makes Jill an Unemployment Statistic

Dorothy wants a job, but what about Edward's dinner?

Dorothy wants a job, but what about Edward's dinner? Marital mayhem starring Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick. From December 1978.

Dorothy and Edward Atkinson are Sidcup's premier warring couple with a marriage to challenge even the most determined of counsellors.

Dorothy is keen to land a job, but what about cooking Edward's dinner?

Starring Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden.    

Barry Pilton's marital mayhem sitcom. 

Edward    ......    Hugh Paddick 
Dorothy    ......    Betty Marsden

With: 

Alison Steadman
Bill Wallis 

After notching up multiple BBC radio series together of 'Beyond Our Ken' and 'Round The Horne' - most memorably as ageing juvenile Binkie Huckaback and Dame Celia Molestrangler - Hugh and Betty were reunited on-air, almost a decade later in 'The 27 Year Itch'.

Producer: Geoffrey Perkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1978.

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