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Growing Pains: 4. Trial and Error

4. Trial and Error

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Pat's dream comes true - and she is all consuming - while Mark makes romantic plans.

Pat’s priority is her new arrival and everyone feels put out.  Mark tries to arrange a secret date. Stars Sharon Duce. From 1989.

Sudden news from the fostering agency sends Pat into a spin along with the smooth running of the household.  

Tom's pub quiz and Mark's romantic hopes are also up in the air.

Starring Ray Brooks and Sharon Duce.

Steve Wetton’s series featuring the Hollingsworth family, who feel fostering may be their way forward.

Tom Hollingsworth .... Ray Brooks
Pat Hollingsworth .... Sharon Duce
Gran .... Jean Heywood
Miriam .... Jacqueline Tong
Caroline Thornley .... Susan Sheridan
Mark .... Richard Pearce
Lisa .... Tika Viker-Bloss
Simon .... Nicholas Delve
Rebecca .... Cara Kelly
Quiz compere .... Dominic Rickhards

Producer: Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1989.

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Pat has to persuade husband Tom and three teenage children to consider fostering.

Tom and Pat Hollingsworth have three teenage children. Pat wants to become a foster parent but has to convert her family to her way of thinking.

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