Uncle Gwyn's Posthumous Curse
Comedy drama by Lynne Truss set on a rainy Welsh golf course where just about anything can lead to a fatal mistake
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 2010
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 5 (1 series)
- Starring
- Margaret John, Brian Hibbard, Tom Allen, Lynne Seymour, Lee Mengo and Howell Evans
- Writer
- Lynne Truss
- Producer
- Kate McAll
Margaret John stars in Lynne Truss's comedy drama set on a rainy golf course in Wales.
The characters in the drama live under the shadow of The Rock, an impressively large geological feature at a remote golf club in Wales, where it has been raining for 20 years. The characters include the severely repressed Angharad; "Mad" Auntie Susan, who is clearly a man; Riddle, the disgusting old green-keeper; and poor, long-suffering Charles who has devoted his life to saving each and every one of the club's members from an untimely death, only to fail. This is blamed on a curse left by late owner of the course Uncle Gwyn, a far-right golf fanatic who set up a political party based on the strict rules of the game.
At this club it is easy to make a fatal mistake; all one has to do is break one of the rules. Inadvertently enter the wrong score on your partner's scorecard, or let your wife order her own drink at the bar and you'll probably be spikes up by tea-time. And when Jaci Hughes, the young cartographer from distant Cardiff, turns up, all manner of skeletons come rattling out of the closet.
- Production company
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 13th December 2010 on BBC Radio 4 at 10:45am
- Last new broadcast
- Friday 17th December 2010 on BBC Radio 4 at 10:45am
- Length of episodes
- 15 minutes
- Last repeat
- Friday 17th December 2010 at 7:45pm on Radio 7