Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman and Nigel Planer star in Sue Limb's comedy parodying the arty and adulterous adventures of the Bloomsbury Group.
Sue Limb is a British writer and broadcaster. She is the
co-author of a biography of the Antarctic explorer Captain Lawrence
Oates. Her work includes novels - many of them for young adults -
and a sitcom for ITV television and BBC Radio 4, Up the Garden
Path. For Radio 4, she has written a number of comedy series: The
Wordsmiths at Gorsemere , The Sit Crom, Four Joneses and a Jenkins
and Alison and Maud; and also Growing Pains (a documentary about
ageing), Hilaire Belloc, and Cities (six programmes of literary
anthology).
Under the name Dulcie Domum, Limb wrote Bad Housekeeping, a
humorous weekly column in The Guardian's Guardian Weekend section
between 1988 and 2001. Collections of the columns, a feminist
novelist's diaries of a rural idyll gone wrong, were republished in
book form.
In 2012 she wrote the Radio 4 series Gloomsbury starring Miriam
Margoyles and Alison Steadman.
"This has turned into one of the funniest, slyest, most naughtily
inventive and brilliantly performed shows on the air. Sue Limb has
come up with a parodic reflection of Bloomsbury which bursts out of
its frame to become an entire parallel comic world. Miriam
Margolyes is magnificent as Vera, writer, chatelaine of
Sizzlinghurst, married to Henry (Jonathan Coy) to whom she is
devoted while being in love with Ginny (Alison Steadman) who's in
love with anyone else. Alas, this is the final episode." -- GILLIAN
REYNOLDS * THE TELEGRAPH *
"Sue Limb's riotous new comedy about the Bloomsbury Group" * THE
INDEPENDENT *
"The entangled love lives and literary follies of the Bloomsbury
Group are parodied to perfection in Sue Limb's six-part series..."
* MAIL ON SUNDAY *
"Sue Limb's wicked new Bloomsbury spoof..." * THE OBSERVER *
"... a gloriously silly show..." * THE LADY *
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