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We Happened To Be Passing

We Happened To Be Passing

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2010
  • 1 episode

A comedy of manners by Reginald Perrin writer David Nobbs. A couple regret saying "if ever you happen to be passing..." to their holiday friends. Stars James Nickerson, Olwen May, Kerry Shale, Melissa Jane Sinden, Malcolm Raeburn and more.

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David Nobbs writes wonderful comedy because his characters invite odd situations to evolve around them. Here we have Tony (James Nickerson) and Sal (Olwen May), middle-aged, comfortably off, no kids. One morning their doorbell rings. It's Monty and Janey from America, who'd once put them up and to whom they'd said, on parting, "If ever you're passing..." No sooner have they settled them in the best bedroom than the doorbell rings again. And again. Wine is drunk, conflicts arise, accommodations are reached. Funny and curiously credible.

Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 24th September 2010

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