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 play a long-married couple, trying to cope with his knee op.

Joanna's tolerance and nursing skills are  tested by Roger’s knee op. Stars Roger Allam and Joanna Lumley. From 2020.

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married ‘for ever’. 

Children of the 60s, they’re still free spirits, drawn together by their passion for music and each other. Their warm and witty conversations dance around everyday chores and appointments as well as dealing with problems within long-held friendships, and tackling their own frustrations with each other. But underlying it all is their enduring love for each other and their desire to keep the passion alive.

Joanna’s nursing skills are found wanting after Roger’s knee op.
  
Written for Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam by award-winning comedy writer and journalist Jan Etherington, who’s been married for 35 years to Gavin Petrie, with whom she created many hit radio and TV series (Second Thoughts, Next of Kin, Faith in the Future, The Change). Conversations from a Long Marriage is her first solo narrative comedy series.

Producer: Claire Jones

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2020.

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Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a long-married couple, with a passion for music and each other.

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