Relativity

Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Comedy: Sitcoms

Richard Herring's comedy about four generations of family.

BBC Radio 4 LW

Relativity: Series 4: Episode 6

Episode 6

Series 4

BBC Radio 4 - Relativity, Series 4, Episode 6

Post lockdown, the Snell family are reunited by love, humour and cheesy snacks.

Richard Herring’s comedy about family. Starring Alison Steadman, Phil Davies and Richard Herring. Post lockdown, the Snell family are reunited by love, humour and cheesy snacks.

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 6
Lockdown is over and the family can finally get together in Ken and Margaret’s garden. Margaret is thrilled until Ken gets out the garden hose. Jane is back from her globetrotting adventures. Pete is sober and hopeful they can get back together. And Donny steals the show with his toddler antics.

Cast:
Ken………………….Phil Davis
Margaret……………..Alison Steadman
Ian…………………...Richard Herring
Chloe…………………Emily Berrington
Jane…………………..Fenella Woolgar
Pete…………………..Gordon Kennedy
Holly………………….Tia Bannon
Mark………………….Fred Haig
Nick…..……………..Harrison Knights
Donny………………Rafael Solomon

Writer…………………Richard Herring 
Director…………………Polly Thomas. 
Sound Design……………Eloise Whitmore
Producer…………………Daisy Knight
Executive Producers…… Jon Thoday and Richard Allen Turner
An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4

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.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Relativity

Series 4

Episode 6

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4