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Dave williams2: Created page with "1st Broadcast 25th November 2005 BBC Radio 4 == Director == Dirk Maggs == Producer == Helen Chattwell == Written By == Mike Stott == Produced By == Above..."

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Created page with "1st Broadcast 25th November 2005 BBC Radio 4 == Director == Dirk Maggs == Producer == Helen Chattwell == Written By == Mike Stott == Produced By == Above..."

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1st Broadcast 25th November 2005 [[BBC Radio 4]]

== Director ==
[[Dirk Maggs]]

== Producer ==
[[Helen Chattwell]]

== Written By ==
[[Mike Stott]]

== Produced By ==
[[Above The Title Productions]] for [[BBC Radio 4]]

== Synopsis ==
A new play by acclaimed writer [[Mike Stott]] about a man who falls in love with a veal calf. Melvin is roped (literally) into delivering a veal calf, but in a moment of sentimentality decides to save the poor creature from slaughter. He persuades the farm to sell him the beloved Mirabelle, and hides the calf from his neighbour in the garage, but the mooing and mucking out soon give the game away, not to mention Mirabelle's appetite for garden shrubs...

Or

Moments of revelation come to us all in time, but rarely do these epiphanies involve veal calves. Playwright Mike Stott (who created last year's superb comedy drama Norman, starring Johnny Vegas) has written a poignant and gently humorous story about an unassuming accountant who accidentally gets involved in the delivery of a calf at the same time that his wife is committing suicide at home. His response to her bloody death is to decide that the newborn cow will not be reared to end up in a slaughterhouse. Philip Jackson stars as Edwin, the accountant-turned- mother-cow, and Alison Steadman is Connie, the no-nonsense frisky farmer who does as much as Mirabelle to heal his bruised view of life.

'''RADIO TIMES reviewer: Jane Anderson'''

== Cast ==
Character Actor
*Edwin [[Philip Jackson]]
*Connie [[Alison Steadman]]
*DC Boone [[Graham Turner]]
*Humpty [[Rupert Degas]]
*Mr Pickering [[Toby Longworth]]
*Miss Cattermole [[Gwyneth Powell]]

== Production Crew ==
Not known at this time

== Recorded on ==
16th September 2005

== Music composed & Arranged ==
Not known at this time

== Comment by Dirk Maggs ==
Nothing yet

== Running Time ==
1 Episode 45 minutes long

== Other Items ==
Postcard by Marc&Anna

== Cast Pictures
Nothing yet

== What Others Have said ==
This kind of play - part magic realism, part absurdism, part bad taste romp - can be difficult to pull off, but it was saved by the exemplary direction of Dirk Maggs."

'''MOIRA PETTY The Stage & Television Today, Dec 1st 2005'''

"... tender and robust in equal measures ... laugh out loud stuff."

'''ELISABETH MAHONEY The Guardian Dec 2005'''

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-Moments of revelation come to us all in time, but rarely do these epiphanies involve veal calves. Playwright Mike Stott (who created last year's superb comedy drama Norman, starring Johnny Vegas) has written a poignant and gently humorous story about an unassuming accountant who accidentally gets involved in the delivery of a calf at the same time that his wife is committing suicide at home. His response to her bloody death is to decide that the newborn cow will not be reared to end up in a slaughterhouse. Philip Jackson stars as Edwin, the accountant-turned- mother-cow, and Alison Steadman is Connie, the no-nonsense frisky farmer who does as much as Mirabelle to heal his bruised view of life.
+Moments of revelation come to us all in time, but rarely do these epiphanies involve veal calves. Playwright [[Mike Stott]] (who created last year's superb comedy drama Norman, starring Johnny Vegas) has written a poignant and gently humorous story about an unassuming accountant who accidentally gets involved in the delivery of a calf at the same time that his wife is committing suicide at home. His response to her bloody death is to decide that the newborn cow will not be reared to end up in a slaughterhouse. [[Philip Jackson]] stars as Edwin, the accountant-turned- mother-cow, and [[Alison Steadman]] is Connie, the no-nonsense frisky farmer who does as much as Mirabelle to heal his bruised view of life.
 '''RADIO TIMES reviewer: Jane Anderson'''
 == Cast ==
-Character  Actor
+Edwin [[Philip Jackson]]
-*Edwin [[Philip Jackson]]
-*Connie [[Alison Steadman]]
+Connie [[Alison Steadman]]
-*DC Boone [[Graham Turner]]
-*Humpty [[Rupert Degas]]
+DC Boone [[Graham Turner]]
-*Mr Pickering [[Toby Longworth]]
-*Miss Cattermole [[Gwyneth Powell]]
+Humpty [[Rupert Degas]]
 == Production Crew ==

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 Postcard by Marc&Anna
-== Cast Pictures
+== Cast Pictures ==
 Nothing yet