
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2007 - 2010
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 12 (3 series)
- Creator
- Laurence Howarth
- Starring
- Darren Boyd, Joanna Page, Lewis Macleod, Sarah Smart, Brigit Forsyth and Rachel Atkins
- Writer
- Laurence Howarth
- Producer
- Dawn Ellis
Sitcom by Laurence Howarth about a man who has reluctantly drifted into the arms dealing trade.
Simon McGrath likes to think of himself as a good person. He donates blood, he recycles his newspapers, bottles and some of his cans, and he's adopted two tigers. But, just like everyone else, he has to pay his mortgage... and that's why he currently works as an arms dealer.
Simon fell into the arms trade but says he's definitely going to leave soon. If he wasn't doing his job, someone else would - that's how he is justifying it at the moment. And it's people who fire bullets, not his guns, right? At least he doesn't work for McDonald's!
Safety Catch is a contemporary sitcom that mocks black-and-white notions of morality. It exposes the ugly trade-offs and necessary fictions in working lives and relationships through the example of Simon McGrath and the lies he has to tell himself just to get up in the morning.
- Production company
- Also known as
- Killing It
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 26th September 2007 on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30am
- Last new broadcast
- Friday 26th November 2010 on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30am
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes
- Last repeat
- Friday 25th December 2020 at 5:00am on Radio 4 Extra
Website links
- Radio 4 - Safety Catch
The official webpage for the series on the Radio 4 website. - Download Safety Catch
The episodes of Safety Catch can be found on this website. - Wikipedia

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