Ring Around the Bath

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Comedy: Sitcoms

Sitcom about a mother who battles with her grown-up children to leave home

Sitcom about a mother who battles with her grown-up children to leave home. Written by Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson

Ring Around the Bath: Series 3: Love in a Cottage

Love in a Cottage

Series 3

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Ring Around the Bath, Series 3, Love in a Cottage

Stella is planning her retirement, but will her grown-up children survive without her?

Stella's planning her retirement, but will her grown-up children survive without her? Stars Pippa Haywood. From January 2006.

Daughter Alison has moved in with her boyfriend, making it one down and three to go for mum Stella.

She and Patrick begin to seriously think about retiring and give country weekending a go. But what's going on while they're away? 

Starring Duncan Preston and Pippa Haywood.   

Return of Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson's sitcom about topsy-turvy family life.

Patrick …. Duncan Preston 
Stella …. Pippa Haywood 
Alison …. Claudie Blakley 
Rick …. Bruce MacKinnon 
Xanthe …. Catherine Shepherd 
Egg …. Daniela Denby-Ashe 

Director: Elizabeth Freestone

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006.

Ring Around the Bath: Series 3

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Sitcom about a mother who battles with her grown-up children to leave home. Stars Duncan Preston

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