The Complete Series 1-3 of the BBC radio comedy sitcom

Killing It

All twelve episodes of the BBC Radio 4 comedy of modern morality set in the world of arms dealing

Broadcast initially as Safety Catch, all twelve episodes of the BBC Radio 4 comedy of modern morality set in the world of arms dealing 
 
Simon McGrath is a nice chap – he donates blood, he recycles, he cares about the world. He just happens to work as an arms dealer – or a 'defence and security equipment system solutions broker' as he prefers to call it. It wasn’t planned, and what he really wants is to pursue is his career in electronic music, but until that takes off he’ll stay where he is. After all, he has to pay his mortgage like everyone else... 
 
In these three series, Simon goes to extreme lengths to prove to everyone just how guilt-ridden he feels about doing the job he does, from considering becoming a whistleblower to deciding to quit when he has to sell uniforms to child soldiers. As he tries to salve his conscience, he decides to do his job really badly (only to find out that he secretly loves it), attempts to gain redundancy (but gets a promotion instead) and wonders whether he should seek forgiveness (but surely he has absolutely nothing to be forgiven for – does he?) 
 
Meanwhile, his personal life is proving equally problematic, as he and his needy girlfriend Anna contemplate having a baby, survive a visit from her parents and try to find reasons why they still love each other... 
 
Written by Laurence Howarth and John Finnemore, this controversial black comedy stars Darren Boyd (Killing Eve) as Simon and Joanna Page (Gavin &amp; Stacey) as Anna. 
 
 
Written by Laurence Howarth and John Finnemore (Series 1, Episode 3) 
Produced by Dawn Ellis 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4: 26 September-17 October 2007, (Series 1), 1-22 April 2009 (Series 2), 5-26 November 2010 (Series 3) 
 
Cast 
Simon McGrath……………………Darren Boyd 
Anna Grieg……………………Joanna Page 
Boris Kemal……………………Lewis MacLeod 
Judith McGrath……………………Sarah Smart 
Angela McGrath……………………Brigit Forsyth 
Mr Njai……………………Ben Onwukwe 
Sophie……………………Catherine Shepherd 
Ol……………………Nicholas Boulton 
Mr Kendall……………………John Dougall 
Madeleine Turnbull……………………Rachel Atkins 
Peter/Guide……………………Gus Brown 
Paramedic/Roger/Dave……………………Philip Fox 
Marcus/Richard……………………Dan Mersh 
Julius……………………Nyasha Hatendi 
Charles……………………John Schwab 
Glenys/Sarah……………………Di Botcher 
Hugh/Vicar……………………Mike Hayward 
With Beth Chalmers

Laurence Howarth

Peter Davidson

Tracy-Ann Oberman

A BBC Radio 4 Black Comedy

'Wonderfully funny... the wit flashes as brightly as the scalpels' Sunday Times 
'The sharpest, blackest and most original sitcom I've heard in years' Observer 
 
 All 18 episodes of the sitcom set in the fascinating but misunderstood world of the pathology lab 
 
Meet Dr Anthony Webster and Dr Ruth Anderson, two pathologists attempting to live normal lives in an atmosphere of death, decay and seriously unpleasant smells. Anthony loves his chosen profession, finding every cadaver exciting and surprising: 'they're like Kinder eggs that have died'. Ruth, however, longs for a juicy murder mystery, instead of one routine autopsy after another. 
 
Together, they perform post-mortems under the watchful eye of their enthusiastic head of department, Professor Donaldson, a man who's never short of a new initiative or NHS directive to implement. Also keeping the mortuary alive are hard-drinking lab assistant Gordon, no-nonsense secretary Chloe, and ineffectual police sergeant Simon, who unfortunately gets queasy around corpses. 
 
Throughout these three series, the team tackle a 'live' radio autopsy, a dearth of dead bodies, and a health scare in the lab; find themselves forced to work on Christmas Day due to a department store drama, and witness a retirement, a leaving party, an overdue baby - and a death... 
 
Scripted by Laurence Howarth, one of the lead writers on Dead Ringers and co-star of Radio 4's Laurence &amp; Gus, this delightfully dark comedy is like Silent Witness, only slightly less ridiculous. It stars Peter Davison as Anthony, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Matilda Ziegler as Ruth and Geoffrey Whitehead as Professor Donaldson, with Tom Price as Gordon, Marianne Levy as Chloe and Gus Brown as Simon. 
 
 
Dr Anthony Webster - Peter Davison 
Dr Ruth Anderson - Tracy-Ann Oberman/Matilda Ziegler 
Professor Donaldson - Geoffrey Whitehead 
Gordon - Tom Price 
Chloe - Marianne Levy 
Simon - Gus Brown 
David/Patient - Stephen Critchlow 
Elaine/Mrs Fitzherbert/Alison/Mrs Wealands/Mrs Dance - Beth Chalmers 
Mrs Renfield - Rachel Atkins 
Daniel Kasper - Laurence Howarth 
Margaret - Lauren Bird 
Prof Van den Hoogenband - Chris Pavlo 
Mr Reeve - Nicholas Boulton 
Mrs Anderson - Paula Wilcox 
Norman - Lewis Aaltonen 
Dr Betzatzoglu - Alex Lowe 
Matthew - Steven Kynman 
Mrs Wantage - Felicity Montagu 
Mr Wantage - Kim Wall 
Dorothy - Joanna Brookes 
Interviewer/Mr Dance - Gerard McDermott 
 
 
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