Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam star as stone effigies in a cathedral talking to each other like an old married couple.

In this opening episode listeners hear Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam as stone effigies in a cathedral talking to each other like an old married couple.

Younger couples Charles Edwards and Sophie Winkleman bicker over who should finish whose sentences, and Lisa Dillon and Alex Jennings discuss the irritations that occur when making an apparently simple decision - whether or not to accept a kind invitation.

Martin Jarvis has trouble with a rare type of cold-calling - how to tell someone they've won a Nobel Prize.

Finally, there's an excerpt from a documentary on a species of creature that scurries and scuttles in the darkness. The wildlife narrator sounds suspiciously like Sir David Attenborough. It is.