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1. Why Didn't You Ask Me to Dance?

The couple are invited to a party and return home with a burning question. Starring Roger Allam and Joanna Lumley. From 2020.

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married ‘forever’.

Children of the 1960s, they’re still free spirits, drawn together by their passion for music and each other. Their recognisable warm and witty conversations dance around the everyday chores and appointments, as well as dealing with problems within long-held friendships, and tackling their own frustrations with each other.

For starters, they’re invited to a party with old friends - but return home with a burning question: why didn’t you ask me to dance?

Written for Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam by award-winning comedy writer and journalist Jan Etherington - who’s been married for 34 years to Gavin Petrie, with whom she has created many hit Radio 4 Extra and TV series (Second Thoughts, plus Next of Kin, Faith in the Future, The Change).

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio 4 in January 2020.

25 days left to listen

28 minutes

Last on

Thu 29 Jun 2023 02:30

Broadcasts

  • Wed 22 Jan 2020 11:30
  • Wed 2 Feb 2022 18:30
  • Wed 9 Feb 2022 07:30
  • Wed 9 Feb 2022 17:30
  • Wed 9 Feb 2022 22:00
  • Thu 10 Feb 2022 05:30
  • Wed 28 Jun 2023 07:30
  • Wed 28 Jun 2023 12:30
  • Wed 28 Jun 2023 17:30
  • Thu 29 Jun 2023 02:30