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Big Town, All Stars

By: Bill Dare
Narrated by: Stephen Tompkinson, Clive Rowe, Adrian Scarborough, Nicola Walker, Brian Bovell, Meera Syal, Tony Gardner, full cast, Doon Mackichan
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Summary

A hilarious BBC Radio sitcom of big dreams, small towns, and rock'n'roll!

When Kenny (Stephen Tompkinson) gives up his life in the geography classroom to join a struggling a capella group with a beautician, a dentist and a boxer, he doesn't realise he'll soon be in the best band on the wedding circuit—and fronting the potential future of rock 'n' roll....

Between trying to manage the band's failing love lives and their battling ambitions, Kenny finds that chaos greets them wherever they go. Arguments about who gets to sing the lead? Check. Rowing about recording contracts? Check. Selling out for a TV talent show? Check.

Even if their only gigs are the engagement parties of their exes and a 'cruise ship' that's really a reconditioned destroyer, it doesn't mean they can't all dream of the big time: wealthy widows, international rock star glamour, private jets. It's just a pity that it looks more like old school reunions and the same old small time rows....

A rib-tickling mixture of music and comedy from the writers of Peep Show, Dead Ringers, and The Now Show, and starring Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Drop the Dead Donkey, Brassed Off), Nicola Walker (Last Tango in Halifax, Doctor Who: The Audio Adventures, Unforgotten), Adrian Scarborough (Killing Eve, Crashing, Miranda) and Clive Rowe (The Story of Tracy Beaker, Harry Hill). Also featuring Meera Syal, Henrietta Garden, Dan Strauss, Darren Boyd and Matthew Little.

Written and devised by Bill Dare

Written by Giles New, Jessie Armstrong and Sam Baine

Producer Gareth Edwards

Cast:

Stephen Tompkinson

Clive Rowe

Adrian Scarborough

Doon Mackichan

Nicola Walker

Meera Syal

Brian Bovell

Rachel Preece

Debra Stephenson

Dave Lamb

Giles New

Matthew Little

Tony Gardner

Robert Webb

Bill Dare

Darren Boyd

Dan Strauss

Henrietta Garden

Stephen Powell

Raquel Cassidy 

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, February-March 2000 and July 2001 

©2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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