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Meet Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, fare-dodger and master of the abusive email.

Meet Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive email, trying to survive in a world where the media seems to be run by idiots and charlatans.

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Ed Reardon's Week: Series 14: Battleaxe

Battleaxe

Series 14

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Ed is enlisted to write the memoirs of Ping’s granny.

Ping asks Ed to write her granny’s memoirs insisting she has Great British Battleaxe potential and could be a national treasure.

Episode 4:  Battleaxe

Ed is introduced to Ping’s granny, Lady Ruddington, who has recently made her maiden speech in the House of Lords highlighting the plight of the mole.  Ping is convinced that her granny has great British Battleaxe potential so enlists Ed’s skills to produce Lady R’s memoirs.  Thus, Ed is handed a plastic carrier bag containing granny’s thoughts and observations, and all he needs to do is “pull it all together”.


Cast list ep 4
Ed Reardon………..Christopher Douglas
Ping…………….……..Barunka  O’Shaughnessy
Maggie……………….Pippa Haywood
Granny……………….Maggie Steed
Olive…………………..Stephanie Cole
Pearl…………………..Brigit Forsyth
Stan……………………Geoffrey Whitehead
Newsreader/TV host….Nicola Sanderson

Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas
Produced by Dawn Ellis
Production Co-ordinator: Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred
Sound Recordist and Editor: David Thomas
A BBC Studios Production first broadcast in 2021

Ed Reardon's Week: Series 14

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