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Rosemary Leach
Nicola Pagett
Angela Thorne
Celia Imrie
Josie Lawrence
Felicity Montagu
Lisa Coleman
Jonathan Coy
Bill Nighy |
No Commitments is a radio drama written by Simon Brett, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It ran for 13 series, starting in 1992. The sitcom portrays the day-to-day lives of three very different sisters.
Main characters
Anna is the eldest and most level-headed of the three sisters. Having cared for her father for some years, on his death she inherited the family home. Generally happy and contented with life, she suddenly finds herself free to put herself first for once, now she genuinely has No Commitments, despite her sisters' belief that she requires their assistance in managing her personal life. She works as receptionist to Eddie, a dentist.
Victoria lives out her rôle as the middle class housewife in Beckenham, a London suburb. With her long-suffering financial director husband Roger, and their three children, Emily, Harriet and Benjy, she tries to maintain the family's social reputation, at all costs. Emily (who over time grows from a child to a young mother) finds her aunt Anna a more sympathetic confidante than her mother.
Charlotte is the youngest sister, and longs to be a famous actress. Lacking somewhat in both talent and self-awareness, she stumbles from one small acting rôle to the next, finally finding a small amount of success in a hardly-known television soap opera. She seems to progress through serial lovers at about the same rate, often with the expectation that the casting couch will lead to the bed, or vice versa. She has one daughter, Gisele, the result of a brief marriage to an Australian actor, who has more success in her parents' profession.
Anna – Rosemary Leach
Victoria
Nicola Pagett (series 1–5)
Angela Thorne (series 6–13)
Charlotte
Celia Imrie (series 1, 3–8, 10, 12)
Josie Lawrence (series 2)
Felicity Montagu (series 11, 13)
Roger
Stephen Moore (series 1)
Roger Lloyd-Pack (series 2)
Jonathan Coy (series 3, 4, 12, 13)
Bill Nighy (series 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11)
Eddie – James Greene
Delia (series 1) – Maxine Audley
Emily
Lisa Coleman (series 2–4, 6, 10–13)
Natalie Walter (series 5)
Nick – Kieran Hill (series 10–13)
Music – Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Producer
Paul Schlesinger (series 1, 2)
Anne Jobson (series 3, 4)
Maria Esposito (series 5, 6)
Simon Brett (series 10–13)
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