Births, Deaths And Marriages. Image shows from L to R: Anita (Sandy McDade), Malcolm Fox (David Schneider), Lorna (Sarah Hadland), Mary (Sally Bretton), Luke (Russell Tovey). Copyright: Unique Productions
Births, Deaths And Marriages

Births, Deaths And Marriages

  • Radio sitcom
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2012 - 2013
  • 12 episodes (2 series)

Sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with the three greatest events in anybody's life. Stars David Schneider, Sarah Hadland, Sally Bretton, Russell Tovey, Sandy McDade and more.

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
2012 - 2013
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
12 (2 series)
Stars
David Schneider, Sarah Hadland, Sally Bretton, Russell Tovey, Sandy McDade, Melanie Hudson and Lewis Macleod
Writer
David Schneider
Producer
Simon Jacobs
Company

Births, Deaths And Marriages is a sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with the three greatest events in anybody's life.

Written by and starring David Schneider, it focuses on chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health and safety. He's unmarried but why does he need to be? He's married thousands of women.

Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been parachuted in from car parks to drag the office (and Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her marriage isn't just about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit in our new age of austerity.

There's also the ever-spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may get her words and names mixed up occasionally but as the only parent in the office, she's a mother to them all.

Births, Deaths And Marriages. Image shows from L to R: Anita (Sandy McDade), Malcolm Fox (David Schneider), Lorna (Sarah Hadland), Mary (Sally Bretton), Luke (Russell Tovey). Copyright: Unique Productions

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Friday 25th May 2012 at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats

Recording details

  • RADA Studios

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