Street and Lane

A BBC Radio 4 Comedy

By: Ian McMillan, Dave Sheasby

Narrated by: Shaun Dooley, Fine Time Fontayne, Becky Hindley, Richard Katz, Gerard McDermott, Kenny Blyth, Muzz Khan, full cast

Series 1 and 2 of the comedy about a pair of mismatched Yorkshire builders battling to save their business.

University dropout and would-be novelist Johnny Street and his worker-of-the-world mate Arthur Lane are the odd-couple partners in a one-horse, two-man family building firm (slogan: ‘Up Your Street, Down Your Lane’). Together, they travel the Yorkshire suburbs in their white van, tackling tricky household repairs with their unique combination of art and craft.

No job is too small for the intrepid duo: although some are a little unusual, like the perilously perched piano on a music teacher’s stairs, the mystery whiff in an infants’ school and the faulty tenor bell in a church belfry. But armed with their trusty ladders and a bucketful of banter, they manage to deal with whatever problems come their way – until a break-in makes Johnny start thinking about the road less travelled....

Scripted by Ian McMillan and Dave Sheasby (The Blackburn Files), and suffused with their characteristic laconic humour, this wry, whimsical comedy stars Nick Lane and Shaun Dooley as Johnny Street and Fine Time Fontayne as Arthur Lane, with guest appearances from Geoffrey Whitehead, Stephen Hogan, Sandra Dickinson and Muzz Khan.

Production credits

Written by Ian McMillan and Dave Sheasby

Produced and directed by David Hunter

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 19 August-9 September 2005 (Series 1), 3-24 January 2007 (Series 2)

Cast

Johnny Street – Nick Lane/Shaun Dooley

Arthur Lane – Fine Time Fontayne

Christine – Becky Hindley

Tom – Richard Katz

Great Northern Man – Gerard McDermott

Mrs Priam-Rhodes – Margaret Robertson

Ben Nevis – Kenny Blyth

Tina – Hannah Storey

Sidney Sanderson – Geoffrey Whitehead

Alison – Bronwyn Lim

Shafto – John Banks

Stanley French – Stephen Hogan

The Rev. Susan – Claire Rushbrook

Madeleine – Sandra Dickinson

Charles – John Carlisle

Janet – Christine Kavanagh

John – Mark Straker

Franklin – Sam Dale

Julia – Rachel Atkins

Pete – Muzz Khan

Lucy – Bethan Walker

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