Bucket. Mim (Miriam Margolyes)
Bucket

Bucket

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Four
  • 2017
  • 4 episodes (1 series)

BBC Four comedy series about a mother and daughter who go on a road trip to tick off the mother's bucket list. Stars Miriam Margolyes, Frog Stone and Stephanie Beacham.

Episode menu

Series 1, Episode 2

Bucket. Image shows from L to R: Mim (Miriam Margolyes), Mary Tash (Maggie Steed)
Mim has a plan to fund their bucket list by selling the contents of a time capsule which she buried at her alma mater, Cambridge.

Preview clips

Further details

Mim has a plan to fund their bucket list by selling the contents of a time capsule containing a first edition Plath and a plaster cast of a Rolling Stones member's member, which she buried at her alma mater, Cambridge.

Fran is excited to learn that famous historian Mary Tash works at the college - but Mim knows that Mary holds a secret about her past which could change Fran's opinion of her forever.

Broadcast details

Date
Thursday 20th April 2017
Time
10pm
Channel
BBC Four
Length
25 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Friday 21st April 2017 3:00am BBC4

Cast & crew

Cast
Miriam Margolyes Mim
Frog Stone Fran
Guest cast
Iain McKee Waiter
Waleed Akhtar Boris
Maggie Steed Mary Tash
Writing team
Frog Stone Writer
Barunka O'Shaughnessy Script Editor
Production team
Rebecca Rycroft Director
Katie Mavroleon Producer
Judy Counihan Executive Producer
Frog Stone Associate Producer
Adam Bokey Editor
Tina Sherifa Hicks Production Designer
Jane Anderson Casting Director
June Nevin Costume Designer
Jeremy Hewson Director of Photography
Lisa Kennedy Make-up Designer
Jane Watkins Composer
Helen Ostler 1st Assistant Director
Alex Moody Commissioning Editor

Video

How Mim created feminism

At Cambridge, Mim talks about her student days in the 60s. Fran wants to do a post grad.

Featuring: Miriam Margolyes (Mim) & Frog Stone (Fran).

Press

TV: Bucket, Episode Two, BBC4 review

The story ebbs and flows but with Mim suffering from a terminal illness - hence the Aldi budget bucket list journey, no swimming with dolphins off the Great Barrier Reef just yet - one can assume that this is building to a climax in the fourth and final episode. Presumably Mim will die a moving death in her daughter's arms or something and we will all sob a bit - unless there are plans for a second series.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th April 2017

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