2. Let It Go

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Jan Etherington’s award-winning comedy about a long-married couple in love with life and each other. Starring Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam. Joanna’s goddaughter, Jools, discovers she cannot have children and wants advice from her godmother. Roger and Joanna recall the day they learned they would never become parents but Joanna reassures Jools that ‘I’m lucky. I have a love affair with my husband and I don’t have to share it with hordes of kids’. ‘And it’s cheaper’, Roger adds, helpfully. Producer: Claire Jones A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2023. **** Conversations from a Long Marriage won Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for Best Radio Comedy in 2020. * ‘Sitcom is what most marriages are really like – repetitive and ridiculous – and Jan’s words are some of the best ever written on the subject’ RICHARD CURTIS ‘* This gives me hope that life and marriage might permanently include taking the absolute piss while simultaneously dancing in the kitchen’. EMMA FREUD * ‘Can Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam ever have done anything better than Jan Etherington’s two hander? Sublimely funny, touching… This is a work of supreme craftsmanship.’ SIMON O’HAGAN, RADIO TIMES * ‘An endearing portrait of exasperation, laced with hard won tolerance – and something like love.’ THE GUARDIAN * ‘The delicious fruit of the writer, Jan Etherington’s experience of writing lots of TV and radio, blessed by being acted by Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam. This series makes people laugh’ GILLIAN REYNOLDS. SUNDAY TIMES * ‘You’ve been listening at my window, Jan’. JOANNA LUMLEY