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The Allotment. Esther (Esther Coles). Copyright: BBC
The Allotment

The Allotment

  • Radio sitcom
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2017
  • 1 pilot

On the allotment you can forget your troubles among the veg, but all kinds of emotions are stirring in the undergrowth. Stars Esther Coles, Mark Benton, Paul Whitehouse, Patricia Allison, Arabella Weir and Jane Horrocks

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The Allotment. Esther (Esther Coles). Copyright: BBC

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
2017
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
1 Pilot
Stars
Esther Coles, Mark Benton, Paul Whitehouse, Patricia Allison, Arabella Weir and Jane Horrocks
Writer
Esther Coles
Producer
Gareth Edwards
Company

Esther takes refuge from a troubled world on her allotment where she finds serenity among the vegetables and loses herself in her bee keeping. While daughter Molly uses the shed as a makeshift study for her exams love-sick Robert has come to ask Esther to take him on a tour of her bee hive, but the spell is broken when Geoff wades in in a make-shift bee-keeping outfit in search of his stolen pumpkin.

Welcome to a quirky, warm world where troubles get lost in the long grass and small things can bring contentment.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 2nd October 2017 at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4
Episode length
30 minutes
All previous repeats
  • Tuesday 6th April 2021 at 11:00pm on Radio 4 Extra
  • Thursday 5th March 2020 at 11:00pm on Radio 4

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