
On The Rocks
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2013 - 2015
- 8 episodes (2 series)
Gentle Radio 4 comedy set around a post office on a remote Scilly island set in the late 1930s. Stars Joseph Kloska, Bec Applebee, Stuart Fox, Alex Palmer, Ed Gaughan and more.
- Series 1, Episode 1 repeated at 7pm on Radio 4 Extra
Another production also has this name.
Key details
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2013 - 2015
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 8 (2 series)
- Stars
- Joseph Kloska, Bec Applebee, Stuart Fox, Alex Palmer, Ed Gaughan, Alex Tregear, Christine Absalom, Peter Marinker and Christopher William Hill
- Writer
- Christopher William Hill
- Director
- Mary Peate
- Producer
- Mary Peate
- Company
Comedy about the islanders on a Scilly island who are resisting the attempts of the Penzance GPO man to modernise the post office - around which their world revolves.
It's the late 1930s and even on the remote island of St Martin's war seems inevitable, but the islanders have their own battles to contend with, stuck on a rock flung twenty-seven miles out into the Atlantic with only their natural grit and gallows humour to see them through.
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Friday 29th November 2013 at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4
- Next repeats
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- Series 1, Episode 1: Today at 7pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Series 1, Episode 1: Tomorrow at 3am on Radio 4 Extra
- Series 1, Episode 2: Monday 31st March at 8am on Radio 4 Extra
- Series 1, Episode 2: Monday 31st March at 1pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Series 1, Episode 2: Monday 31st March at 7pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Series 1, Episode 2: Tuesday 1st April at 3am on Radio 4 Extra
- Most recent repeats
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- Monday 24th March 2025 at 1:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 1, Episode 1
- Monday 24th March 2025 at 8:00am on Radio 4 Extra - Series 1, Episode 1
- Friday 16th June 2023 at 2:30am on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 4