Parish Magazine
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 1987
- 3 episodes (1 series)
Sitcom starring Michael Aldridge as a vicar. Also features Miranda Forbes, Stuart Organ, Katherine Parr and Janet Burnell.
Press clippings
I'd had hopes of Joan Bakewell's trilogy of short comedies on parish life (Radio 4, Tuesdays & Wednesdays). But, alas, she aimed no higher than familiar jokes about fuddy-duddy old vicars, trendy curates and a smatter of rebellion amongst the ladies. [...] A pity, since, as the new series of King Street Junior (Radio 4, Mondays & Toesdays) shows, a defined group of characters linked around an institution like a school or church are the best basis for successful sitcom. But James Grout's Headmaster, dealing with the teachers' industrial action, is far closer to reality (and therefore funnier) than Michael Aldridge's parson faced with the movement for women's ordination.
Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian, 24th January 1987