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Nurse. Image shows from L to R: Herbert (Paul Whitehouse), Elizabeth (Esther Coles). Copyright: Down The Line Productions
Nurse

Nurse

  • TV comedy drama / sketch show
  • BBC Two
  • 2015
  • 4 episodes (1 series)

TV version of the Radio 4 series starring Paul Whitehouse as various characters visited by a community psychiatric nurse. Stars Esther Coles, Paul Whitehouse and Cecilia Noble.

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Paul Whitehouse is bringing a host of new characters to television soon in BBC Two's Nurse. Listeners to his Radio 4 series, which had the same title, might recognise some of these names, but this is the first time we've seen them in a visual medium...

Nurse. Elizabeth (Esther Coles). Copyright: Down The Line Productions

Nurse centres around Elizabeth (played by Esther Coles).
She travels around to meet various patients, most of which are played by Whitehouse.

Nurse. Herbert (Paul Whitehouse). Copyright: Down The Line Productions

One of the characters that Whitehouse plays is Herbert, he's described as 'an elderly rake'.

Nurse. Image shows from L to R: Graham Downes (Paul Whitehouse), Graham's Mum (Rosie Cavaliero). Copyright: Down The Line Productions

Elizabeth is troubled by the relationship between Graham (Whitehouse) and his mother (Rosie Cavaliero), because Graham's daily diet of doughnuts and junk food is way out-of-control now.

Nurse. Image shows from L to R: Tony Beckton (Simon Day), Billy (Paul Whitehouse), Elizabeth (Esther Coles). Copyright: Down The Line Productions

Billy feels safer in jail than outside, a state of affairs the nurse is trying to rectify.
Simon Day fans will no doubt have spotted him in this photo, playing his gangster character Tony Beckton.

Nurse. Image shows from L to R: Lorrie (Cecilia Noble), Maurice (Paul Whitehouse). Copyright: Down The Line Productions

Lorrie (Cecelia Noble) is regularly visited by her over-friendly (some would say nosey) neighbour Maurice.

Nurse. Image shows from L to R: Elizabeth (Esther Coles), Ray (Paul Whitehouse). Copyright: Down The Line Productions

Ray, a rock and roll survivor from the Sixties, is bipolar.

Nurse. Image shows from L to R: Elizabeth (Esther Coles), Jack (Jason Maza), David (Paul Whitehouse), Sheila (Sue Elliott-Nicholls). Copyright: Down The Line Productions

Jack (Jason Maza) is a troubled young former soldier.
His parents are Sheila (Sue Elliot Nichols) and David (Whitehouse).

Nurse. Image shows from L to R: Ted (Paul Whitehouse), Bernie (Jo Enright). Copyright: Down The Line Productions

Ted and Bernie (Jo Enright) are another pair of characters in the show.

Nurse. Image shows from L to R: Elizabeth (Esther Coles), Phyllis (Vilma Hollingbery), Gary (Paul Whitehouse). Copyright: Down The Line Productions

Phyllis (Vilma Hollingbery), in her seventies, has Alzheimer's. She is sweet, charming and exasperating.
Her son Gary does his best, but struggling.

Nurse. April (Rosie Cavaliero). Copyright: Down The Line Productions

Rosie Cavaliero also appears in Nurse as 'cat lady' April.

'Nurse' starts on BBC Two on Tuesday 10th March at 10pm.

Published: Friday 27th February 2015

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