Polyoaks
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2011 - 2017
- 26 episodes (5 series)
Radio 4 sitcom about two sibling doctors who are struggling with the NHS reforms. Written by Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer. Also features Nigel Planer, Simon Greenall, David Westhead, Polly Frame, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1
Further details
As responsibility for the Health Service is stripped from managers and handed to doctors, brothers-in-medicine Roy & Hugh Thornton are struggling to work out what to do with all this sudden money and power. If they can diagnose acute appendicitis surely they can manage an £80 billion health budget. Can't they?
But a useless Celebrity TV Doctor, an overly-aggressive South African Nurse and a sinister GP Consortium Chairman don't make their lot any easier.
Anyone who wants to know what's really happening to the Nation's Health Service, (but can't wade through the 367 page Health & Social Care Bill) should listen.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 3rd June 2011
- Time
- 11:30am
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Nigel Planer | Dr Roy Thornton |
| David Westhead | Dr Jeremy |
| Phil Cornwell | Mr Devlin |
| Celia Imrie | Betty Crossfield |
| Carla Mendonca | Vera Duplessis |
| Tony Gardner | Dr Hugh Thornton |
| Phil Cornwell | Patient |
| David Holt | Mr Ridgewell |
| David Holt | Mr Dawson |
| Kate O'Sullivan | Mrs Briggs |
| Phil Hammond | Writer |
| David Spicer | Writer |
| Frank Stirling | Director |
| Frank Stirling | Producer |