Ed Reardon's Week
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2005 - 2025
- 100 episodes (16 series)
Radio sitcom following curmudgeonly 50-something writer Ed Reardon, and his flawed attempts to escape poverty via literary success. Stars Christopher Douglas, Lisa Coleman, Philip Jackson, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Stephanie Cole and more.
- Returns on Monday 30th June on Radio 4 at 2:15pm with Series 16, Episode 1
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Series 9, Episode 5 - Intellectual Fireworks
Ed takes up a professorship at a prestigious writing retreat.
Further details
Ed appears to have stepped on the gravy train at last as he takes up a professorship at Much Wenlock Court - a prestigious writing retreat. He hopes this will lead him to, at the very least, a contentious Saturday Essay on the Today Programme.
However, this retreat has been set up by one Jaz Milvain so could Ed's change in fortune be too good to be true?
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 9th December 2013
- Time
- 11:30am
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Christopher Douglas | Ed Reardon |
| Philip Jackson | Jaz Milvane |
| Barunka O'Shaughnessy | Ping |
| Stephanie Cole | Olive |
| Geoffrey Whitehead | Stan |
| Alison Steadman | Pearl |
| Corrie Corfield | Newsreader |
| Nicola Sanderson | Waitress |
| Jonathan Coy | Ned |
| Felicity Montagu | Rosemary |
| Carolyn Pickles | Maureen |
| Nicola Sanderson | Suki |
| Barunka O'Shaughnessy | Lisa |
| Christopher Douglas | Writer |
| Andrew Nickolds | Writer |
| Dawn Ellis | Producer |