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Alan Ayckbourn - Things We Do For Love

When two best friends are reunited, the ensuing farce surprises them both. Stars Joanna Van Gyseghem and Cameron Stewart.

When two best friends are reunited, the ensuing farce surprises them both. Stars Joanna Van Gyseghem and Cameron Stewart.

Alan Ayckbourn's play, adapted for radio by Martyn Read

Starring Joanna van Gyseghem as Barbara, Cameron Stewart as Hamish, Gavin Muir as Gilbert and Teresa Gallagher as Nikki.

This comic masterpiece is an hilarious and cruel view of love - avoiding it, yearning for it and falling head over heels in it. Barbara has chosen to live alone. Her immaculate flat is a male-free and child-free zone. As lady of the house, she rents out the bottom flat to Gilbert, a postman with a passion for painting. Her role in life is to remain single and to look after her boss. When her old school friend, Nikki, moves into the upstairs flat with her fianc茅, Hamish, Barbara is there to keep an eye on her. However, her orderly life quickly takes a very different direction.

Things We Do For Love has been deemed one of the best plays of the 1990s.

Producer: Gordon House.

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in 2000.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 14 Apr 2019 04:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 9 Sep 2007 10:00
  • Sun 9 Sep 2007 20:00
  • Sun 3 May 2009 13:00
  • Mon 4 May 2009 01:00
  • Sat 12 Jun 2010 13:00
  • Sun 13 Jun 2010 01:00
  • Sat 26 Mar 2011 13:00
  • Sun 27 Mar 2011 02:00
  • Sat 1 Sep 2012 06:00
  • Sat 1 Sep 2012 16:00
  • Sun 2 Sep 2012 04:00
  • Sun 30 Mar 2014 13:30
  • Mon 31 Mar 2014 03:30
  • Sat 13 Apr 2019 06:00
  • Sat 13 Apr 2019 16:00
  • Sun 14 Apr 2019 04:00