On The Rocks. Image shows from L to R: Frank Gunwallow (Joseph Kloska), Mary (Bec Applebee), Morwenna (Alex Tregear), Tregarthan (Peter Marinker), Grace (Christine Absalom), Len (Ed Gaughan). Copyright: BBC
On The Rocks
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2013 - 2015
- 8 episodes (2 series)
Gentle Radio 4 comedy set around a post office on a remote Scilly island set in the late 1930s. Stars Joseph Kloska, Bec Applebee, Stuart Fox, Alex Palmer, Ed Gaughan and more.
Another production also has this name.
Key details
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2013 - 2015
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 8 (2 series)
- Stars
- Joseph Kloska, Bec Applebee, Stuart Fox, Alex Palmer, Ed Gaughan, Alex Tregear, Christine Absalom, Peter Marinker and Christopher William Hill
- Writer
- Christopher William Hill
- Director
- Mary Peate
- Producer
- Mary Peate
- Company
Comedy about the islanders on a Scilly island who are resisting the attempts of the Penzance GPO man to modernise the post office - around which their world revolves.
It's the late 1930s and even on the remote island of St Martin's war seems inevitable, but the islanders have their own battles to contend with, stuck on a rock flung twenty-seven miles out into the Atlantic with only their natural grit and gallows humour to see them through.
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Friday 29th November 2013 at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4
- Most recent repeats
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- Friday 16th June 2023 at 2:30am on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 4
- Thursday 15th June 2023 at 5:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 4
- Thursday 15th June 2023 at 12:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 4