Almost Like Being In Love. Grace (Gemma Whelan). Copyright: Pier Productions
Almost Like Being In Love

Almost Like Being In Love

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2017
  • 1 episode

Comedy drama about a young woman who falls in love with a forty-year-old LBGT matchmaker. Stars Gemma Whelan, Rosie Cavaliero, Rasmus Hardiker, Catriona Knox, Sam Dale and more.

Almost Like Being In Love. Grace (Gemma Whelan). Copyright: Pier Productions

Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2017
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
1
Stars
Gemma Whelan, Rosie Cavaliero, Rasmus Hardiker, Catriona Knox, Sam Dale, Karen Ascoe, Amy Sutton and Jane Postlethwaite
Writer
Catriona Knox
Director
Caroline Raphael
Producer
Caroline Raphael
Company

What does love look like in a world of non-binary, gender-fluid, constantly hyphenated thinking?

Grace is equipped with all the emotional trappings of youth - confidence, confusion, crippling arrogance, crippling insecurity. She thinks of herself as sexually liberated - and she may be in theory, but she definitely isn't in practice. She's slept with three men, missionary-style. That's it.

Then she falls in love with Iggy - a charismatic, no-nonsense, forty-year-old LBGT matchmaker. And that's when life really starts to get bewildering.

As they attempt to embark on a relationship neither of them expected, both women navigate brave but very different new worlds. Iggy's new path is as alien to her as heterosexuality, while Grace has to work out if she really is fluid enough to grab the best thing that's ever happened to her with both hands.

A comic, coming of age story about love, sexuality, cats and Judy Garland.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Tuesday 18th April 2017 at 2:15pm on BBC Radio 4
Episode length
45 minutes
All previous repeats
  • Monday 3rd June 2019 at 2:15pm on Radio 4

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