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After Henry. Image shows from L to R: Sarah France (Prunella Scales), Clare (Geraldine Cowper), Eleanor (Joan Sanderson). Copyright: BBC
After Henry

After Henry

  • Radio sitcom
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 1985 - 1989
  • 34 episodes (4 series)

Culture and generation-clash comedy in which middle-aged widow Sarah lives with her elderly, difficult mother Eleanor, and daughter Clare. Stars Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Benjamin Whitrow and Geraldine Cowper.

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Press clippings

It would take the skills of Jane Austen to turn the painful relationships of the three women into anything approaching comedy.

Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian, 20th September 1986

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