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Ed Reardon's Week. Ed Reardon (Christopher Douglas). Credit: BBC
Ed Reardon's Week

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.

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