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A Suffolk writer who is the creative and writing genius behind a series of TV and radio sitcoms will be launching a book of scripts today (Friday)…

Jan Etherington’s award-winning Conversations From A Long Marriage is back next month

Highlights from playoffs and the last week of the regular season in Class A.

Jan explains that it was an intentional move on her part not to name the characters brought to life so memorably by Lumley and Allam. “Firstly, I really don’t like that radio convention where the names of characters are casually dropped into the dialogue – “Hello Kate, come in. Phil darling, it’s Kate at the door” it sounds contrived and awful, so I deliberately wanted to steer away from that “But, I also wanted to make my couple ‘universal’ – I wanted people to listen in an...

Jan explains that it was an intentional move on her part not to name the characters brought to life so memorably by Lumley and Allam. “Firstly, I really don’t like that radio convention where the names of characters are casually dropped into the dialogue – “Hello Kate, come in. Phil darling, it’s Kate at the door” it sounds contrived and awful, so I deliberately wanted to steer away from that “But, I also wanted to make my couple ‘universal’ – I wanted people to listen in an...