
- 8th January: Radio 4 comedies nominated in BBC Audio Awards 2020
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2020
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 1 Pilot
- Starring
- Mark Steel, Claire Skinner, Elliot Steel, Ivo Graham, Susannah Fielding, Annette Badland, Simon Greenall and Naz Osmanoglu
- Writers
- Mark Steel, Elliot Steel, Ivo Graham and Barry Castagnola
- Director
- Barry Castagnola
- Producer
- Barry Castagnola
Part of the Radio 4 Comedy Playhouse season, Unite is a new sitcom starring Claire Skinner (Outnumbered), Radio 4 favourite Mark Steel (Mark Steel's In Town, The News Quiz), Mark's son Elliot Steel (Roast Battles, Comedy Central At The Comedy Store) and rapidly rising comedy star Ivo Graham (Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee 2019, Have I Got News For You).
When Tony (Mark Steel) a working-class, left wing South Londoner, falls in love and moves in with Imogen (Claire Skinner), an upper middle-class property developer, their respective millennial sons Ashley (Elliot Steel), a disenfranchised Croydon 'rude boy', and Gideon (Ivo Graham), Eton and Oxbridge-educated and crypto-currency literate, are forced to live under the same roof and behave like the brothers neither of them ever wanted.
Class, compromise, hope, desolation, love, identity, step-sibling rivalry and Crystal Palace FC are all explored in this fresh comedy.
Characters of the show Unite! You have nothing to lose but your prejudices, formed over a lifetime of living within the British class system.
- Part of
- Production company
- Also known as
- Comedy Playhouse: Unite (Other official name)
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Friday 17th January 2020 on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30am
- Episode length
- 30 minutes