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Two Pipe Problems. Image shows from L to R: William Parnes (Richard Briers), Sandy Boyle (Stanley Baxter). Copyright: Catherine Bailey Productions Limited
Two Pipe Problems

Two Pipe Problems

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2007 - 2013
  • 13 episodes (7 series)

Radio 4 comedy drama focusing on two resident sleuths living in a retirement home. Stars Stanley Baxter, Richard Briers, Geoffrey Palmer, Jillie Meers and Tracy Wiles

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Michael Chaplin blog

I often get asked where my ideas come from. Other writers I know seem to find the question irritating. I find it interesting, and believe the answer can be instructive, for me and maybe for the questioner too.

Michael Chaplin, BBC Radio 4 Blog, 11th August 2011

Radio review: Afternoon Play - Two Pipe Problem

The retirement home drama was a gentle treat.

Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 23rd June 2010

First of a pair of charming plays (there's another tomorrow) by Michael Chaplin about William (Richard Briers) and Sandy (Stanley Baxter), two residents at the Old Beeches retirement home for theatricals who, when the call comes, can set their differences aside and solve the occasional mystery. Today's involves Charlie (Barry Cryer), an elderly comic. His joke book goes missing and, with it, quite a lot of money. But it's a delicate situation, one that will soon call for all the tact that our duo of tetchy amateur sleuths can muster.

Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 22nd June 2010

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