Citizens (radio show)

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Genre Radio drama Country United Kingdom Home station BBC Radio 4		Running time 25:00 Language(s) English
Starring Kate Duchêne Beverly Hills Russell Boulter James MacPherson Seeta Indrani Brian Murphy

Citizens was a radio drama series, which aired twice a week from 27 October 1987 to 25 July 1991. There were 388 twenty-five-minute episodes and it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was created by Marilyn Imrie and A.J. Quinn.

The series initially focussed on the residents of 5 Limerick Road in the fictional South London borough of Ditcham:

landlady Alex Parker (Kate Duchêne), a single parent, originally from Norwich;

Liverpudlian twins Julia Brennan (Beverly Hills) and Michael Brennan (Russell Boulter);

merchant banker Hugh Hamilton (James MacPherson) from Kilmarnock;

doctor Anita Sharma (Seeta Indrani) from Birmingham; and

Ernest Bond (Brian Murphy), who lived in the ground floor flat with his Siamese cat Salome.

Alex, Julia, Michael, Hugh and Anita had all met as students in Leicester.

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Citizens (radio show) Wikipedia

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