Take Me to Your Reader

Take Me To Your Reader

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Take Me To Your Reader: 1. The Trouble With Billy

1. The Trouble With Billy

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Take Me To Your Reader, 1. The Trouble With Billy

Colin tries to persuade a pretentious children’s author to renew his publishing contract.

It's always a battle at publishers, Roache & Brewer. But Colin Luscombe upsets everyone. Stars Tim Brook-Taylor. From March 1986.

Colin Luscombe must try to persuade a pretentious children’s author to renew his contract with a publisher.

Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Andrew Palmer’s five-part sitcom set in publishing house, Roache & Brewer.    

Erudite, naïve Colin battles with his bluff managing director, Rees John.

Colin wants to inform and educate the world, whilst Rees is only interested in the bottom line : "Forget literature, concentrate on books.” 

Janet is stuck in the middle.

Colin Luscombe …. Tim Brooke-Taylor
Rees John …. Glyn Houston
Janet Hunt …. Eve Karpf
Thomas Lipton …. Edward Judd
Leonard Barrow …. Joe Dunlop

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1986.

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Mid-80s sitcom set in the publishing house, starring Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Mid-80s sitcom set in the publishing house, Roache & Brewer, where erudite, naïve Colin Luscombe fights an uphill battle with his bluff MD, Rees John. Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor.

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