Bucket
- TV sitcom
- BBC Four
- 2017
- 4 episodes (1 series)
BBC Four comedy series about a mother and daughter who go on a road trip to tick off the mother's bucket list. Stars Miriam Margolyes, Frog Stone and Stephanie Beacham.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 2
Further details
Mim has a plan to fund their bucket list by selling the contents of a time capsule containing a first edition Plath and a plaster cast of a Rolling Stones member's member, which she buried at her alma mater, Cambridge.
Fran is excited to learn that famous historian Mary Tash works at the college - but Mim knows that Mary holds a secret about her past which could change Fran's opinion of her forever.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 20th April 2017
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Four
- Length
- 25 minutes
Cast & crew
| Miriam Margolyes | Mim |
| Frog Stone | Fran |
| Iain McKee | Waiter |
| Waleed Akhtar | Boris |
| Maggie Steed | Mary Tash |
| Frog Stone | Writer |
| Barunka O'Shaughnessy | Script Editor |
| Rebecca Rycroft | Director |
| Katie Mavroleon | Producer |
| Judy Counihan | Executive Producer |
| Frog Stone | Associate Producer |
| Adam Bokey | Editor |
| Tina Sherifa Hicks | Production Designer |
| Jane Anderson | Casting Director |
| June Nevin | Costume Designer |
| Jeremy Hewson | Director of Photography |
| Lisa Kennedy | Make-up Designer |
| Jane Watkins | Composer |
| Helen Ostler | 1st Assistant Director |
| Alex Moody | Commissioning Editor |
Video
How Mim created feminism
At Cambridge, Mim talks about her student days in the 60s. Fran wants to do a post grad.
Featuring: Miriam Margolyes (Mim) & Frog Stone (Fran).
Press
TV: Bucket, Episode Two, BBC4 review
The story ebbs and flows but with Mim suffering from a terminal illness - hence the Aldi budget bucket list journey, no swimming with dolphins off the Great Barrier Reef just yet - one can assume that this is building to a climax in the fourth and final episode. Presumably Mim will die a moving death in her daughter's arms or something and we will all sob a bit - unless there are plans for a second series.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th April 2017