Single Voices Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• The Chemist

  A middle-aged chemist has severe marriage problems but rather than talk to his wife about them, he is content to pour out his thoughts and feelings into a video recorder. Darkly humorous monologue starring actor David Jason

• Degsy

  Monologue, starring Don Gilet as Degsy, a compulsive womaniser from Peckham who, after fathering eight children, realises there's more to life than casual affairs and decides to change his ways

• Ding Dong Merrily on High

  Comic monologue, written by and starring Marcus Powell as an ageing Jamaican stand-up comedian who still dreams he can make the big time : until he reads his late wife's acerbic diary

• Ginger

  George Cole stars in a comic monologue in which he plays a pensioner with big ideas, ginger wig and huge plans for his local over-60s club

• The Last Supper

  Comic monologue starring Liverpudlian actor Michael Angelis in the role of Terence, a butcher who is plunged into despair over the breakdown of his marriage, and struggling to understand why his vegetarian ex-wife would want to leave a thoroughly reasonable fellow such as himself

• The Lime-Green Bag

  A restroom attendant at an exclusive Mayfair hotel finds a mysterious lime-green bag, the contents of which could rock the Jewish community and change his life forever. Dramatic monologue, starring Andrew Sachs

• Little Englander

  Dramatic monologue, starring Archie Panjabi as a star-struck Northern girl who lands the job of hostess on a cable TV show but finds herself struggling to fend off the advances of her lecherous co-star who won't take no for an answer

• A Little Pinch of Chilli

  A ship's chef is sacked after 30 years in the job and struggles to build a new life for himself on dry land. Dramatic monologue, starring Paul Barber

• The Prince of Dalston

  Comic monologue, starring Felix Dexter as a student forever struggling to make the grade who tries to impress his visiting parents by pretending he is already qualified as a hot-shot accountant. Last in series

• Royal Enclosure

  Comic monologue, starring Sheila Hancock as Doreen, a woman obsessed with Danny Kaye, Barry Manilow, and the entire royal family. When the Duke of Edinburgh visits the swimming pool where she works, it appears that her wildest dreams will be realised

• Sandy Comes Home

  Comic monologue, starring Barry Humphries, creator of Dame Edna Everage, as the ghost of Sandy Stone, an elderly Australian spirit who notices that things have dramatically changed in his old neighbourhood since his untimely departure

• Sita Gita

  Goodness Gracious Me's Nina Wadia stars in the dual roles of dutiful Indian woman Sita, resigned to the drudgery of housework for her father and brothers, but still harbouring dreams of love, and her audacious sister Gita, who has broken free of family ties and earns her living as a stripper

• Some Enchanted Evening

  Darkly humorous monologue, starring John Sessions as Bobby Buffet, a musical director suddenly called to London to remount a Broadway musical in the West End

• Watching the Detective

  Comic monologues starring top black and Asian performers. Meera Syal plays a cynical east London private detective with a Humphrey Bogart fixation, who specialises in tracking down the runaway daughters of wealthy Asian parents