Season 4 Episode 6: Radio Drama

Wooden Overcoats

Wooden Overcoats Ltd

Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Comedy

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Georgie’s relationship with Jennifer is put to the test when Funn Funerals is surrounded by an angry mob.

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Cast
Rudyard Funn: Felix Trench
Antigone Funn: Beth Eyre
Georgie Crusoe: Ciara Baxendale
Eric Chapman: Tom Crowley
Madeleine: Belinda Lang
Jennifer Delacroix: Alana Ross
Miss Scruple: Ellie Dickens
Bill: Pip Gladwin
Tanya: Emily Stride
Agatha Doyle: Alison Skilbeck
Mouse: Holly Campbell
Announcer: Eleanor Rushton

Crew
Writer: Gabriel Urbina
Script Editor: David K. Barnes
Producers: Andy Goddard & John Wakefield
Production Manager: Elizabeth Campbell
Composer: James Whittle
Music: James Whittle and the Piffling Philharmonic
Script Supervisor: Meghan Fitzmartin
Recorded at the Octagon Studio, Brixton

Transcript

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0:00.0	George E. Crusoe works in a funeral home in the village of Piffling Vale. It used to be the only one.
0:08.0	It isn't any more. Between two jobs and her private life, it can be a challenge keeping everyone happy.
0:16.0	Luckily, George E is great at that. At least she thought she was. Until today.
0:24.0	Wooden ovacates created by David K. Barnes, season 4, episode 6, Radio Drama by Gabriel Urbina.
0:38.0	It was a jolly, sunny day in Piffling Vale and its people had gone to the Piffling Fairground.
0:52.0	Eric Chapman was staging his most eagerly anticipated funeral so far and his rivals were doing a bit of reconnaissance.
1:02.0	Look at this nonsense. Logs with rollercoasters, a ferris wheel. This is no place for a funeral.
1:10.0	Yes, I read it. Whatever happened to the summer dignity of death.
1:14.0	The inclination of the head fell apart in the back, into the whole you go.
1:18.0	I went for a hospital. What's that? It's an ice cream. I've never had one before.
1:26.0	We should be disrupting the funeral, not enjoying it.
1:30.0	It's got a way forward. This funeral is at anyone.
1:34.0	Miss Scrupal. Miss Scrupal passed away.
1:36.0	No, it's her mother. Miss Scrupal. She was Piffling's oldest resident, 105.
1:42.0	But this is Chapman's first funeral in over a month and it cannot be allowed to go off without a hitch.
1:48.0	Drop the ice cream and let's get to work.
1:50.0	You wait till I'm finished. One ice cream can't possibly.
1:54.0	What? What's the matter?
1:56.0	It's my... my head. There's something all to be wrong. It's like my brain is freezing.
2:04.0	Freezing.
2:06.0	You ate the ice cream too quickly, didn't you?
2:08.0	My life has been reduced.
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