Relativity

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Relativity: Series 4: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 4

BBC Radio 4 - Relativity, Series 4, Episode 5

Ian recuperates with the help of nostalgic children’s television theme tunes.

Richard Herring’s comedy about family. Starring Alison Steadman, Phil Davies and Richard Herring. Ian recuperates with the help of nostalgic children’s television theme tunes.

Drawing on his own family, the fourth series of Richard Herring’s popular comedy drama has warm, lively characters and sharply observed family dynamics of inter generational misunderstanding, sibling sparring and the ties that bind.

Amid the comedy, Richard broaches some more serious highs and lows of family life. In this series, set during the first year of lockdown. he draws on his own experience of testicular cancer at that time, as well as the comedic escapades of the four generations of the Snell family. Love, laughter and malapropisms abound.

Richard Herring is a comedian, writer, blogger and podcaster and the world's premier semi-professional self-playing snooker player.

Episode 5
Jane and Ian delve into family nostalgia as she looks after him post op. Pete struggles to look after the three children on his own while giving up alcohol. Ken becomes an unlikely hero when a forlorn stranger breaks into the house. 

Cast:
Ken………………….Phil Davis
Margaret……………..Alison Steadman
Jake………………….Guy Rhys
Ian…………………...Richard Herring
Jane…………………..Fenella Woolgar
Pete…………………..Gordon Kennedy
Holly………………….Tia Bannon
Mark………………….Fred Haig
Nick…..……………Harrison Knights

Writer…………………Richard Herring 
Director…………………Polly Thomas. 
Sound Design……………Eloise Whitmore
Producer…………………Daisy Knight
Executive Producers…… Jon Thoday and Richard Allen Turner

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Relativity: Series 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Comedy about extended modern family by Richard Herring.

Richard Herring's returning comedy about an extended modern family. Starring Alison Steadman, Phil Davies and Richard Herring.

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