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Radio 4,23 Feb 2017,30 mins

Pilot: Kafka Died at 39

Jack & Millie

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A phone, a strudel and Franz Kafka combine to make Jack and Millie's day rather complicated. Jeremy Front's comedy about an older couple getting to grips with a French daughter-in-law, gassy beer, Eye-Closing Leon and a married lifetime's-worth of verbal sparring. Starring Jeremy Front and Rebecca Front. So Millie's son Melvin has given her a new tablet with a voice recorder? Suddenly Jack and Millie have decided to record everything that happens to them? And for this, we should be grateful? Well yes! Because this is a comedy written by Jeremy Front (writer of the BBC's Charles Paris mysteries) about a Jack and Millie Lemman who are fully engaged with contemporary life whilst at war with the absurdities of the modern world. Jack ...... Jeremy Front Millie ...... Rebecca Front Shirley ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman Harry ...... Andy Nyman Melvin ...... Harry Peacock Delphine ...... Jenny Bede Carrie ...... Sue Kelvin Lindsay ...... Rachel Stubbings Producer: David Tyler A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2017.

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