Conversations from a Long Marriage

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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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Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return as the couple still in love with life and each other.

Joanna Lumley & Roger Allam star in Jan Etherington’s award-winning comedy, as a couple still passionate about life and each other. This week: ‘There are three in this marriage’.

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return with the fourth series of Jan Etherington’s award-winning comedy about a long-married couple in love with life and each other.  

This week, Amy moves in. She has long, thin legs and lots of black hair, which is why their new rescue dog is called after Amy Winehouse. Joanna’s attempts at training are scuppered by Roger and Amy’s ‘lovefest’, prompting her to observe ‘There are three in this marriage.’

Conversations from a Long Marriage is written by Jan Etherington.
It’s produced and directed by Claire Jones.  
And it is a BBC Studios Production.

Wilfredo Acosta - sound engineer
Jon Calver - sound designer
Katie Baum - production coordinator

Conversations from a Long Marriage won Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for Best Radio Comedy in 2020.

‘Sitcom is what most marriages are really like – repetitive and ridiculous – and Jan’s words are some of the best ever written on the subject’ RICHARD CURTIS
‘This gives me hope that life and marriage might permanently include taking the absolute piss while simultaneously dancing in the kitchen’. EMMA FREUD
‘Can Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam  ever have done anything better than Jan Etherington’s two hander? Sublimely funny, touching… This is a work of supreme craftsmanship.’ SIMON O’HAGAN, RADIO TIMES
‘An endearing portrait of exasperation, laced with hard won tolerance – and something like love.’ THE GUARDIAN
‘The delicious fruit of the writer, Jan Etherington’s experience of writing lots of TV and radio, blessed by being acted by Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam. This series makes people laugh’ GILLIAN REYNOLDS. SUNDAY TIMES
‘You’ve been listening at my window, Jan’. JOANNA LUMLEY

Conversations from a Long Marriage: Series 4

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Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return with the fourth series of this award-winning comedy.

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return in Jan Etherington's award-winning comedy about a long-married couple in love with life and each other.

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