Series 4, Episode 1 - Ashes To Auld Reekie
It is a year since Caroline's best friend, Fiona, died, but an unexpected visitor, a skinny dip in a Highland loch and an illicit kiss mean that scattering her ashes doesn't quite go according to plan.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 8th July 2009
- Time
- 11:30am
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Press
Staggering stoically under the weight of their emotional baggage, Hilary Lyon's Edinburgh-based 40-something friends are back for a fourth series. At the end of series three, Fiona had died from breast cancer, leaving her ex-husband Roddy and best friend Caroline to co-parent her baby, April. A year later and this "strangely shaped, mad little family", augmented by April's birth father (and Church of Scotland minister) Nicholas, and Fiona's Alzheimer-afflicted mother Gladys, - oh, and a dog - set off to scatter Fiona's ashes at Ruth's lakeside cabin. It is all very postmodern yet strangely old-fashioned at the same time, as the stresses of family life bounce off the need for some love and romance. Chick radio at its best.
Frances Lass, Radio Times, 8th July 2009
