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Turf Wars

Turf Wars

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2011
  • 4 episodes (1 series)

A series of comic plays about territory, staring James Fleet, Nigel Planer and Katherine Parkinson. Stars James Fleet, Joanna Monro, Jonathan Coy, Joseph Kloska, Leah Brotherhead and more.

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Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2011
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
4 (1 series)
Stars
James Fleet, Joanna Monro, Jonathan Coy, Joseph Kloska, Leah Brotherhead, Nigel Planer, Michael Maloney, Adeel Akhtar and more
Writers
Nick Warburton, Kieran Lynn, Simon Brett and Jeremy Front
Producer
Peter Kavanagh
Company

Turf Wars is a series of four comic plays about territoy.

In the first of the four episodes - Losing the Plot by Nick Warburton - James Fleet stars as a timid man who confronts mindless bureaucracy.

In the second episode, Nigel Planer stars in Kieran Lynn's comedy about a border guard who draws a tape line through a park, dividing it into two halves in a newly divided country. But the line now separates two young lovers.

In the third episode, Michael Maloney plays a bachelor in a gossipy village, who finds something shocking when he digs a trench in his mother's garden.

In the final episode, Katherine Parkinson plays a mother who is desperate to get her talented 11-year-old son into ta good school, but she lives just outside the catchment area.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Wednesday 9th March 2011 at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats
  • Wednesday 10th July 2024 at 3:00am on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 4
  • Tuesday 9th July 2024 at 7:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 4
  • Tuesday 9th July 2024 at 1:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 4

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