Ed Reardon's Week
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2005 - 2023
- 94 episodes (15 series)
Radio sitcom following curmudgeonly 50-something writer Ed Reardon, and his flawed attempts to escape poverty via literary success. Stars Christopher Douglas, Philip Jackson, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Stephanie Cole, Geoffrey Whitehead and more.
- Due to return for Series 16
- Ed Reardon's Christmas Week 2020, Christmas Special repeated Wednesday at 2:30pm on Radio 4 Extra
Episode menu
Series 9, Episode 4 - Blood of the Reardons
To escape his daughter's gluten-free falafel salad, Ed enrols on a clinical trial.
Further details
Ed discovers that he has diabetes and his daughter, Eli, turns up to be his calorie counter- in-chief. To escape Eli's gluten free falafel salad, Ed enrols on a clinical trial, and that's when his son, Jake turns up in the hope of a fly-on-the-wall documentary, although as Ping points out, it will only be marketable if Ed dies!
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 2nd December 2013
- Time
- 11:30am
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Christopher Douglas | Ed Reardon |
| Barunka O'Shaughnessy | Ping |
| Stephanie Cole | Olive |
| Geoffrey Whitehead | Stan |
| Alison Steadman | Pearl |
| Lisa Coleman | Eli |
| Sam Pamphilon | Jake |
| Claudie Blakley | Dr Liz Newcombe |
| Christopher Douglas | Writer |
| Andrew Nickolds | Writer |
| Dawn Ellis | Producer |