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 & Roger Allam star as a couple still passionate about life and each other.

Joanna Lumley & Roger Allam star in Jan Etherington’s award-winning comedy, as a couple in love with life and each other. This week, a friend’s sad news brings back memories.

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, Joanna’s goddaughter, Jools, discovers she cannot have children and wants advice from her godmother.  Roger and Joanna recall the day they learned they would never become parents but Joanna reassures Jools that ‘I’m lucky.  I have a love affair with my husband and I don’t have to share it with hordes of kids’. ‘And it’s cheaper’, Roger adds, helpfully.   

Conversations from a Long Marriage is written by Jan Etherington. The sound engineer is Wilfredo Acosta.  The sound designer is Jon Calver. The production coordinator is Katie Baum. It is produced and directed by Claire Jones.  It is a BBC Studios Production.

Conversations from a Long Marriage won the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for Best Radio Comedy in 2020 and was nominated for a Writers’ Guild Award  in 2022

‘Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam have had illustrious acting careers but can they ever have done anything better than Jan Etherington’s two hander? This is a work of supreme craftsmanship.’ RADIO TIMES
‘Peppered with nostalgic 60s hits and especially written for the pair, it’s 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. Treasure this one, produced by Claire Jones. Unlike many a current Radio 4 ‘comedy’, 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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