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Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married for over 40 years. Children of the Sixties, they鈥檙e still free spirits, drawn together by their passion for music 鈥� and each other.

The show follows their conversations that take them from the local caf茅, to their kitchen table, taking in her resentment of new glasses - a symbol of ageing - and fury at being lectured by the dental hygienist. He has a dodgy knee and is on statins, and when they discuss the marriage break-up of their closest friends, Sally and Peter, there鈥檚 jealousy and talk of affairs. She suggests there are advantages to single beds, separate holidays and wants to go clubbing in Ibiza for her imminent 鈥榖ig鈥� birthday.

When a couple stop kissing each other, the marriage is in trouble, she believes. 鈥榃hat it says in the Shoop Shoop Song is so true. It IS in his kiss!鈥�

Written for Joanna Lumley by award-winning comedy writer and journalist Jan Etherington, who herself has been married for 35 years. Jan has created and written many long-running radio and television series with her husband Gavin Petrie (Second Thoughts, Next of Kin, Faith in the Future) and has written sketches for Radio 4鈥檚 Ayres on the Air, but this is her first solo-scripted, half-hour comedy. She says: 鈥淐onversations from a Long Marriage will resonate with couples of any age but especially those who are still dancing in the kitchen, singing in the car and trying to keep the passion alive.鈥�

Producer: Claire Jones
A 麻豆社 Studios production for 麻豆社 Radio 4