Episode 2

Available for 108 days

With no live studio audience, John Finnemore took the opportunity to try something completely new. Every episode in this series of Souvenir Programme is made up of scenes from one person's life, played in reverse order. There's no narrative to the episode; it's still a sketch show, not a sitcom... but the sketches in each episode all happened to one person, played by one member of the cast, over the course of their lifetime. This episode is all about Deborah, and takes place between a catchup Zoom in lockdown one, and a bedtime story she was told in 1962. Written and performed by John Finnemore With Margaret Cabourn-Smith Lawry Lewin Simon Kane Carrie Quinlan Recorded and edited by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post Producer: Ed Morrish A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2021.