Conversations from a Long Marriage at Christmas again

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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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Award-winning comedy in which Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam plan their perfect Christmas.

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam star as a long-married and passionate couple in Jan Etherington’s award-winning comedy. This year, will they get the Christmas they want - or deserve?

Once more, we are party to Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam’s Christmas plans, in Jan Etherington’s award-winning, two-hander comedy, produced by Claire Jones.

We join them as Joanna breathily compliments Roger - ‘How do you get it so perfect every time?’ His reply ‘Hot goose fat and regular tossing’ reveals that they are enjoying his signature roast potatoes. They’re spending a quiet Christmas with Peter and Sally but this snowballs into an extravagant houseparty when Peter is offered a rich friend’s country pile and invites other couples. 

Their recently widowed friend, Marian, is anticipating her pregnant daughter, Rosie’s, arrival but as Rosie cancels and Peter changes the arrangements yet again, Joanna picks up a flyer which offers her and Roger ‘a kind and important Christmas, rather than a glitzy gorgefest’.  Can they get back to a Christmas they actually want?

Starring Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam.
Written by Jan Etherington. Production co-ordinator Beverly Tagg.
Produced and directed by Claire Jones.
A BBC Studios Production.

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