Baggage

Warmth, realism, humour - and now ghosts - make Baggage a continuing pleasure.

Staggering stoically under the weight of their emotional baggage, Hilary Lyon's Edinburgh-based 40-something friends are back for a fourth series. At the end of series three, Fiona had died from breast cancer, leaving her ex-husband Roddy and best friend Caroline to co-parent her baby, April. A year later and this "strangely shaped, mad little family", augmented by April's birth father (and Church of Scotland minister) Nicholas, and Fiona's Alzheimer-afflicted mother Gladys, - oh, and a dog - set off to scatter Fiona's ashes at Ruth's lakeside cabin. It is all very postmodern yet strangely old-fashioned at the same time, as the stresses of family life bounce off the need for some love and romance. Chick radio at its best.