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Julie Hesmondhalgh
Cleaning Up

Cleaning Up

  • Radio sitcom
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2015
  • 4 episodes (1 series)

Radio 4 sitcom about a group of night-time office cleaners in Manchester. Stars Julie Hesmondhalgh, Paul Barber, John Thomson, Lauren Socha, Bhavna Limbachia and Jack Deam

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Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
2015
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
4 (1 series)
Stars
Julie Hesmondhalgh, Paul Barber, John Thomson, Lauren Socha, Bhavna Limbachia and Jack Deam
Writer
Ian Kershaw
Producer
Alison Vernon-Smith
Company

Cleaning Up is a sitcom about a group of night-time office cleaners in Manchester.

Every night, as time is called and people are spat out onto the streets and squeezed into rides home to dream-tossed beds, others are hard at work. Teams of cleaners are in office spaces scrubbing, vacuuming and cleaning up. And right at the bottom of the food chain we find our gang, Spit 'n' Polish, tackling the floors of a plush tower block in Manchester city centre.

Written by Ian Kershaw and with a top-hole Northern cast, this is a sometimes dark comedy about a group of people who are thrown together by their work and who always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Friday 20th February 2015 at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats
  • Wednesday 19th April 2023 at 2:30am on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 4
  • Tuesday 18th April 2023 at 5:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 4
  • Tuesday 18th April 2023 at 12:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 4

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