Ring Around the Bath

Ring Around the Bath
Genre Domestic comedy
Running time 30 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language(s) English
Home station BBC Radio 4
Starring Penny Downie
Writer(s) Lucy Clare
Ian Davidson
Producer(s) Elizabeth Freestone
Air dates 8 August 2003 to 6 February 2004
No. of series 3
No. of episodes 18
Audio format Stereophonic sound

Ring Around the Bath was a domestic situation comedy series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2003 and 2006. It was written by Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson and produced by Elizabeth Freestone.

Situation

Stella Bartholomew (Penny Downie), a middle-aged mother with a job in a garden centre, would like her adult children and their partners to move out of her chaotic suburban home so she and her husband could retire to the country, but her cookery-expert husband, Patrick (Duncan Preston), and the children are much less keen on the idea. Claudie Blakley plays eldest daughter Alison; Bruce Mackinnon, son Rick; Catherine Shepherd, his naïve girlfriend Xanthe; and Daniela Denby-Ashe, youngest daughter Egg, who is studying for A-levels.

Broadcast history

It was broadcast in three series, each of six half-hour episodes, in August/September 2003, November/December 2004 and January/February 2006, and has been repeated on BBC Radio 7 and BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Critical reaction

The Guardian found it "tightly scripted" and "horribly realistic".[1]

References

  1. Mahoney, Ellsabeth. "Offspring cleaning", The Guardian (1959-2003) [London (UK)] 11 Aug 2003: B20

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