Unite
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2020 - 2023
- 11 episodes (2 series)
Sitcom about class, compromise and step-sibling rivalry. Stars Mark Steel, Claire Skinner, Elliot Steel, Ivo Graham, Ayesha Antoine and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2020 - 2023
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 11 (1 pilot + 2 series)
- Stars
- Mark Steel, Claire Skinner, Elliot Steel, Ivo Graham, Ayesha Antoine, Susannah Fielding, Annette Badland, Simon Greenall and Naz Osmanoglu
- Writers
- Mark Steel, Elliot Steel, Ivo Graham, Barry Castagnola, Claire Skinner, Ayesha Antoine, Ruth Bratt and Simon Greenall
- Director
- Barry Castagnola
- Producers
- Barry Castagnola and Mario Stylianides
- Companies
When Tony Timmington (Mark Steel) a working-class, left wing South Londoner, falls in love and moves in with Imogen (Claire Skinner), an upper middle-class property developer, their respective millennial sons Ashley (Elliot Steel), a disenfranchised Croydon 'rude boy', and Gideon (Ivo Graham), Eton and Oxbridge-educated and crypto-currency literate, are forced to live under the same roof and behave like the brothers neither of them ever wanted.
Class, compromise, hope, desolation, love, identity, step-sibling rivalry and Crystal Palace FC are all explored in this fresh comedy.
The characters get to experience how the other half live. Tony resents his newfound enjoyment of the finer things in life, while Imogen finds Tony's stories of being a working-class hero intriguing and endearing. Ashley's brash attitude belies both insecurity and envy of Gideon who, in turn, is secretly impressed by what he believes to be Ashley's streetwise knowledge of urban culture.
Catch-up
Additional details
- Part of
- Also known as
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- Comedy Playhouse: Unite
- Production
- Studio
- Soundtrack
- End theme is London Calling by The Clash.
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Friday 17th January 2020 at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4
- Most recent repeats
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- Thursday 13th July 2023 at 10:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 6
- Thursday 6th July 2023 at 10:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 5
- Thursday 29th June 2023 at 10:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 4