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On The Rocks. Image shows from L to R: Frank Gunwallow (Joseph Kloska), Mary (Bec Applebee), Morwenna (Alex Tregear), Tregarthan (Peter Marinker), Grace (Christine Absalom), Len (Ed Gaughan). Copyright: BBC
On The Rocks

On The Rocks

  • Radio sitcom
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2013 - 2015
  • 8 episodes (2 series)

Gentle Radio 4 comedy set around a post office on a remote Scilly island set in the late 1930s. Stars Joseph Kloska, Bec Applebee, Stuart Fox, Alex Palmer, Ed Gaughan and more.

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Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
2013 - 2015
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
8 (2 series)
Stars
Joseph Kloska, Bec Applebee, Stuart Fox, Alex Palmer, Ed Gaughan, Alex Tregear, Christine Absalom, Peter Marinker and Christopher William Hill
Writer
Christopher William Hill
Director
Mary Peate
Producer
Mary Peate
Company

Comedy about the islanders on a Scilly island who are resisting the attempts of the Penzance GPO man to modernise the post office - around which their world revolves.

It's the late 1930s and even on the remote island of St Martin's war seems inevitable, but the islanders have their own battles to contend with, stuck on a rock flung twenty-seven miles out into the Atlantic with only their natural grit and gallows humour to see them through.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Friday 29th November 2013 at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats

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