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Rent: The Complete Series 1-4
- A BBC Radio Comedy Drama
- Narrated by: Barbara Flynn, Full Cast, Patrick Barlow
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Summary
All four series of the award-winning house-share comedy starring Barbara Flynn and Patrick Barlow
Maria and Richard Reynolds are happily married, but broke. With debts piling up and their house falling down, there’s only one thing for it: they have to start taking in lodgers. Their new housemates are two equally cash-strapped students – Ruby, who’s conscientious and dedicated, and Paul, who finds academic pursuits more of a challenge.
Over the course of 24 episodes, the foursome go from being complete strangers to close friends. Richard and Maria discover they’re not as young and groovy as they’d thought, Paul gets his heart set on Ruby, and Maria hears her biological clock ticking very loudly. The arrival of baby Piglet leads to havoc chez Reynolds, as the preparations for her naming ceremony reach a climax, and Paul and Ruby consider their future. And as both couples find themselves saddled with unwanted guests, can they send them packing and get their lives back?
Written by Lucy Flannery, Rent won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy. It stars Barbara Flynn as Maria and Patrick Barlow as Richard, with Diane Louise-Jordan and Vivienne Rochester as Ruby and Toby Longworth and Dave Lamb as Paul.
Cast
Maria – Barbara Flynn
Richard – Patrick Barlow
Amy – Linda Polan
Ruby – Diane Louise-Jordan (Series 1)/Vivienne Rochester (Series 2-4)
Paul – Toby Longworth (Series 1 & 2)/Dave Lamb (Series 3 & 4)
Ellen – Helen Atkinson Wood
With Chris Emmett, Sally Grace, Sarah Parkinson, Joanna Brookes, Matthew Bell, Brian Bowles and Amanda Davies
Produced by Liz Anstee
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 6 May-10 June 1993 (Series 1), 25 January-1 March 1995 (Series 2), 29 January-5 March 1997 (Series 3), 28 May-2 July 1998 (Series 4)
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- Pete
- 24-01-22
Entertaining Easy Listening
Loved it a joy to listen with excellent characters. Brilliant audible, highly recommend. No more necessary
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- Debs
- 05-02-23
Easy listen
Loved listening to this whilst crocheting.
Lovely characters learning as they go to deal with everyday life with some comedy thrown in.
Great actors too!
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- Diane
- 20-10-21
A joy
pleasant and most enjoyable, light hearted,didn't want it to end.Narrated exceptionly well.Very easy to follow.!!
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- andrea
- 15-02-24
Problem solving with style
Enjoyed listening to a loving relationship weather the tricky challenges of home me life with care, love and friendship
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- Mwalker
- 14-04-21
Brilliant and joyous
This was such an accessible light hearted comedy,
You will want to just listen them to all - rather gutted I have finished.
Patrick Barlow is superb and amazing in this - but so is the whole cast.
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- N Santelmann
- 23-09-22
Fake baby noises from season 3 marring audiobook
Listened about to a bit more than half of the audio book, the first two seasons were ok, not incredibly thrilling, the characters a bit whimsical, but light entertainment perfect to listen to whilst working. From season 3 it started to fall apart for me though. This is when the child Emily was introduced and it was so clearly an adult performing the crying, laughing etc. it was just cringeworthy. It marred the whole experience for me and I couldn't bear to listen anymore after about 2 episodes. A real shame, if not for that I would have listened to the rest. Returned book.
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