Working Titles: The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

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Working Titles: The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Part 2

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Part 2

BBC Radio 4 - Working Titles, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Part 2

David Haig stars as the comic hero who opts out of the rat race.

Reginald Perrin is a lost soul  so he has made a plan to fake his death and embrace freedom.

David Nobbs's classic comedy dramatised by Jon Canter.

David Nobbs's classic comedy continues. It's 1975 and Reggie has reached the bottom: his farcical non-affair, his rage at the  8.16 from Surbiton always being 11 minutes late, his impotence, his need to keep saying 'parsnip', they have all led to the moment where he gives a drunken speech at the fruit growers association conference from which there is no going back. But Reggie has a plan - he is going to turn his back on the rat race, fake his own death and rise again  as a new man and embrace freedom. But there is one problem he can't stop thinking about home.

Part of the Working Titles season looking at the changing world of work.

Part 2: The Rise

Reggie ..... David Haig
Elizabeth ..... Selina Griffiths
CJ ..... Pip Torrens
Linda ..... Celeste Dring
Jimmy/Man In Car  ..... Thomas Arnold
Henry/Inspector Gate .... Dan Starkey
Tom ..... Joseph Ayre
Esther ..... Chloe Sommer
Tony ..... Jonathan Forbes
Mark / Barker/Reverend  ..... Tom Kiteley
Mrs CJ/Woman In Car  ..... Joanna Monro
Doc/Bill The Nightwatchman  .....Roger Ringrose

Piano & Organ Played By Peter Ringrose

Written By David Nobbs
Dramatised By Jon Canter
Directed By Sally Avens

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