Gloomsbury
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2012 - 2018
- 30 episodes (5 series)
Radio parody of the arty Bloomsbury group. Stars include Alison Steadman, Miriam Margolyes, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions. Also features Roger Lloyd Pack and Nigel Planer.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 3 - The St Ives School Of Painting
Further details
The writer and transvestite Vera Sackcloth-Vest and her bosom chum, the novelist Ginny Fox, go down to St Ives in search of the writer of very naughty books Mr D.H. Lollipop. Their husbands, Henry and Lionel, accompany them, hoping to prevent their wives from succumbing to the dangerous animal magnetism of Lollipop, whose book Lady Hattersley's Plover has scandalised and unsettled them all.
Vera's persistent and flamboyant admirer Venus Traduces arrives, desperate to re-kindle their Sapphic passion. However she is distracted when, on the cliff path, she meets a thin man with a red beard who exudes animal magnetism. He informs her that his wife is away in London being painted by Augustus John, invites Venus to call him Dave, and ravishes her in the brambles.
Meanwhile, though Vera and Ginny seem to search in vain for Lollipop, he is always much closer than they think.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 12th October 2012
- Time
- 11:30am
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Miriam Margolyes | Vera Sackcloth-Vest |
Alison Steadman | Ginny Fox |
Morwenna Banks | Venus Traduces |
Jonathan Coy | Henry Mickleton |
John Sessions | DH Lollipop |
Nigel Planer | Lionel Fox |
Sue Limb | Writer |
Jamie Rix | Director |
Jamie Rix | Producer |
Clive Brill | Executive Producer |