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Episode 4

Geoff and family are off on a summer holiday. He has romantic plans – but they're under threat. Stars Danny Robins. From 2016.

The second series of this sitcom from Danny Robins (co-creator Lenny Henry comedy Rudy's Rare Records), set and recorded in Sweden and starring Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner Adam Riches, Danny Robins and a cast of Sweden's most popular TV comedy actors.

Geoff has moved to Yxsjö in northern Sweden, to start a new life with his girlfriend Linda in the (frequently frosty) bosom of her family.

This year, new dad Geoff has plenty of fresh experiences to contend with, including three varieties of pickled cabbage, sinister Christmas elves and an unpleasant visit from Sweden's answer to the BNP. It's all worth it though for Linda (Sissela Benn, star of the Swedish version of The Office) and baby John.

While Geoff and Linda now have their own place, he still has to deal with her disapproving Dad, Sten (comedian Thomas Orredsson from Crimes of Passion), her alarmingly flirtatious mother Gunilla (comedian Anna- Lena Bergelin) and her apparently suicidal, arsonist brother, Anders (award-winning stand up Fredrik Andersson).

Geoff is determined to be more Swedish than the Swedes as he takes to his new country with renewed enthusiasm, and he has help, in the form of fellow expat, cynical Ian (Danny Robins), an unending source of (slightly misleading) information, and Soran (Farshad Kohlgi of The Killing), a Danish Kurd with Swedophobia.

Episode 4: It's Summer and Geoff, Linda and baby Jon are off on holiday - bliss. Geoff has seriously romantic plans too, as they head further north for bright summer nights, skinny dipping and wild strawberries. But their idyll is soon under threat from mosquitoes, fish and the rest of the family.

Writer: Danny Robins
Director: Frank Stirling
A Unique production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 6 Nov 2019 05:00

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Credits

Role Contributor
Geoff Adam Riches
Sten Thomas Oredsson
Linda Sissela Benn
Gunilla Anna-Lena Brundin
Anders Fredrik Andersson
Ian Danny Robins
Soran Farshad Kohlgi
Actor Thomas Ericsson
Actor Shanthi Rydwall
Director Frank Stirling
Writer Danny Robins

Broadcasts

  • Fri 22 Jan 2016 11:30
  • Thu 16 Feb 2017 18:30
  • Thu 23 Feb 2017 07:30
  • Thu 23 Feb 2017 17:30
  • Thu 23 Feb 2017 22:00
  • Fri 24 Feb 2017 05:30
  • Tue 5 Nov 2019 07:00
  • Tue 5 Nov 2019 17:00
  • Wed 6 Nov 2019 05:00

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