The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 1976 - 1981
- 25 episodes (4 series)
Comedy about a crime writer struggling for inspiration, and his prolific novelist wife. Stars Ian Carmichael and Charlotte Mitchell.
Press clippings
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (Radio 4 Extra, 8.30am) brings back Basil Boothroyd's quietly comic classic from the Seventies, with Ian Carmichael as the amiable crime writer who never quite finishes anything and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife, who does. P.G. Wodehouse himself was a Boothroyd fan.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 25th January 2013The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C. Potter is back with us on Wednesdays (Radio 4), less funny than it used to be, and I totally accept the point that the author Basil Boothroyd once made to me that radio comedy writing is far more demanding than writing comedy for other media. Radio cannot use the visual jokes and business to spin out and reinforce the humour.
Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian, 25th November 1977