Ed Reardon's Week returns 30th June, with Series 16 to hit Episode 100
Radio 4's long-running sitcom Ed Reardon's Week returns on Monday 30th June for Series 16. The last episode in the six-part series will be the 100th episode of the show.
The comedy, which stars Christopher Douglas as a curmudgeonly writer, was first broadcast in 2005. Written by Douglas and, until his death in 2022, Andrew Nickolds, the comedy also features Lisa Coleman, Simon Greenall, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Nicola Sanderson, Dan Tetsell and Philip Jackson.
Previous stars have included Jenny Agutter, Jonathan Bailey, Raquel Cassidy, Stephanie Cole, Monica Dolan, John Fortune, Sally Hawkins, Don Gilet, Maggie Steed, Geoffrey Whitehead, Rita May, Alison Steadman, Brigit Forsyth and John Fortune.
In Series 16 the alumni are joined by Adrian Scarborough, Robert Powell, Stephen Mangan and Joe Thomas.
The BBC says: "Ed Reardon, failed writer, master of the diatribe and a man with a never-ending capacity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory hits the milestone of his 20th anniversary on Radio 4."
The new series, which will be broadcast in the 2:15pm slot on Mondays, begins with Ed still mourning his beloved cat Elgar. He is also being bombarded with mail from retirement homes.
The synopsis explains: "His quest continues to try to find a new source of income to replace the one he's lost from his writing class, whose third age students' property wealth has become so vast they've all relocated to Dubai. Never one to be defeated, Ed applies for an ostler's job at The Countrywoman magazine and clears his storage cupboard to illegally sub-let it as an 'opportunity for boutique capsule living'. He may be lucky and get a human being to live there - or maybe an actor."