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Baggage is a BBC Radio 4 situation comedy which by August 2009 had aired for 4 series, each consisting of 6 30-minute episodes. Series 1 aired from April 2005, Series 2 from July 2006, Series 3 from December 2007 and Series 4 from July 2009. It starred Hilary Lyon, Phyllis Logan, Adie Allen, and Stuart McQuarrie. It was written by Hilary Lyon and directed by Marilyn Imrie.

BBC Radio 4 British domestic radio station, owned and operated by the BBC

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is Gwyneth Williams, and the station is part of BBC Radio and the BBC Radio department. The station is broadcast from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. On 21 January 2019 Williams announced she was quitting the role. There are no details of when or who will be her replacement.

Phyllis Logan British actress

Phyllis Logan is a Scottish actress, known for playing Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy (1986–93) and Mrs Hughes in Downton Abbey (2010–15). She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the 1983 film Another Time, Another Place. Her other film appearances include Secrets & Lies (1996) and Shooting Fish (1997).

Adie Allen is a British actress who graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, RADA in 1987. She has appeared in new plays at the Royal Court, the Almeida, the Bush and the Tricycle Theatre(s). She frequently appears on British television. Notable television appearances include Casualty (she played student nurse Kelly Liddle in a number of episodes in 1991, the television series "99-1" playing Liz Hulley in 1994, Alan Ayckbourn's West End premiere of "Communicating Doors" at the Gielgud Theatre in 1996, playing the time-travelling prostitute Poopay, as well as the 1997 television drama "The Woman in White" playing Margaret Porcher, and the Peter Kosminsky film "The Innocents" playing Helen Rickard in 2000. She was brought up in Bristol and was educated at Monks Park Comprehensive School, leaving when she was sixteen.

Contents

Episodes

Series 1
  1. "Midsummer Mayhem"
  2. "Festival Flatmates"
  3. "Halloween Havoc"
  4. "Fireworks and Funerals"
  5. "Christmas Crises"
  6. "New Year, New Life"
Series 2
  1. "Midsummer Lovesick and Sickening"
  2. "Procreation and Procrastination"
  3. "And So to Bath"
  4. "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Lover"
  5. "Highland Fling"
  6. "Perpetual Emotion"
Series 3
  1. "The Homecoming"
  2. "Family Matters"
  3. "The Regeneration Game"
  4. "Not Quite Part of the Plan"
  5. "Human Doings"
  6. "Keep Right on to the End of the Road"
Series 4
  1. "Ashes to Auld Reekie"
  2. "Carping Diem"
  3. "The Father, the Mother, the Dead Friend and Her Lover"
  4. "Tales of the Unexpected"
  5. "For a' that and a' that"
  6. "You're a Long Time Dead"

Notes and references

BBC Online brand name and home for the BBCs UK online service

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on-demand video and radio services co-branded BBC iPlayer, the children's sites CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize. The BBC has had an online presence supporting its TV and radio programmes and web-only initiatives since 1994 but did not launch officially until December 1997, following government approval to fund it by TV licence fee revenue as a service in its own right. Throughout its short history, the online plans of the BBC have been subject to harassment from its commercial rivals, which has resulted in various public consultations and government reviews to investigate their claims that its large presence and public funding distorts the UK market.

British Comedy Guide

British Comedy Guide or BCG is a British website covering all forms of British comedy, across all media. At the time of writing, BCG has published guides to more than 7,000 individual British comedies - primarily TV and radio situation comedy, sketch shows, comedy dramas, satire, variety and panel games. Other notable features on BCG include a news section, a message board, interviews with comedians and actors, a series of comment and opinion articles, a searchable merchandise database, and a section offering advice to aspiring comedy writers. The website also runs The Comedy.co.uk Awards and hosts several podcast series, some of which have won awards.


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