Katherine Jakeways’ heartwarming BBC Radio 4 comedy, starring Sheila Hancock as the narrator.

Wadenbrook is a small market town in a corner of Northamptonshire, whose inhabitants live quiet but by no means uneventful lives. In these six episodes, as they build up to a Dickensian Festival weekend complete with mob caps, cravats and shawls which are usually used as cat blankets, narrator Sheila Hancock shines a light on their loves, laughs and loneliness.

Jan has Helen back home, but is it what she really wants? Meanwhile, a visiting choir sets the local ladies’ hearts aflutter and Mary’s dad, Norman, has an adventure of his own. Esther has a big question to ask Ken and Keith, and Angela and Helen both have news to divulge. And as the dawn of the festival brings chaos to Wadenbrook, love blossoms for a most unlikely couple….

Sheila Hancock is the narrator of this funny and touching comedy series, also starring Mackenzie Crook, Kevin Eldon, Geoffrey Palmer, Penelope Wilton and Felicity Montagu.

‘Full Stop’ finds the inhabitants of Wadenbrook taking a New Years’ Eve minibus trip. Having recently performed their own amateur production of ‘My Fair Lady’, they are excited to be off to see a professional and starry production at Birmingham’s Hippodrome. Former school teacher Mary has organised the outing (with an ulterior motive) and Ken has an important question to ask Keith. But heavy snow threatens to thwart everyone’s plans….