At Home With The Snails
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2001 - 2002
- 8 episodes (2 series)
At Home With The Snails is a radio sitcom written by and starring Gerard Foster as a man who is obsessed with snails. Stars Geoffrey Palmer, Angela Thorne, Gerard Foster, Miranda Hart and Debra Stephenson
At Home With The Snails
All eight episodes of the surreal comedy drama centred around a man with a very unusual hobby.
Newly graduated from university, Alex Fisher returns home depressed and suffering from existential angst. But when his father encourages him to make himself useful by killing the snails in the garden Alex has an epiphany. Instead of murdering them, he will save them - and soon, he has a whole escargatoire of snails, all named after celebrities, crawling over the carpet, climbing the walls and hanging off the lampshades.
Alex's mum, Beverley, is concerned, and tries to cheer him up with home-made 'nice things', like a big cuddly snail. However, her husband George, a Professor of Symbolics, is fascinated with his son's obsession, and decides to make him the subject of his next book. Meanwhile, his sister Rose has her own issues to deal with - her heart's in the wrong place, pressed up against her armpit, and she could drop dead at any moment...
First released: Thursday 10th October 2024
- Distributor: BBC Digital Audio
- Minutes: 224
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