Rudy’s Rare Records: The Complete Series 1-4 - Danny Robins

Category: Full Cast, Humor, Radio Productions
Language: English
Keywords: BBC Full Cast Radio 4 Sit Com

Written by Danny Robins
Read by Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker, Joe Jacobs, full cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Rudy’s Rare Records: The Complete Series 1-4
A BBC Radio Comedy
By: Danny Robins
Narrated by: Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker, Joe Jacobs, full cast
Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 14-03-2024
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio

Lenny Henry stars in this family comedy set in the finest, feistiest old reggae record shop in Birmingham

‘A joy’ Chris Campling, The Times

Rudy Sharpe is the irrepressible owner of a tiny, ramshackle record store, stacked from floor to ceiling with piles of vinyl. It’s a place with real soul, where the slogan is ‘If we don’t have it – them don’t mek it’. Helping out behind the counter is Tasha, Handsworth’s only Black goth girl, while Rudy’s best friend Clifton regularly drops in to talk music, women and rum.

When Rudy has a ‘heart attack’, his long-suffering, middle-aged son Adam reluctantly returns from London to look after him, leaving behind his own classical music shop, Bach to Basics. Accompanying Adam is his teenage son, Richie, who is less than thrilled with the prospect of going to Birmingham, but bonds with his granddad over their shared love of reggae and ska.

Crammed together, sharing the minuscule flat above the shop, the trio collide on a daily basis. Forced to survive each other’s company, can they put their differences aside, keep the store afloat and keep the vinyl dream alive?

Starring Lenny Henry as Adam, Larrington Walker as Rudy and Joe Jacobs as Richie, this feelgood comedy celebrates three generations of Sharpe men bantering, bickering, breaking up and making up – all to a terrific, toe-tapping soundtrack.

Credits
Starring Lenny Henry
Written by Danny Robins, Dan Tetsell and Paula Hines from an original idea by Lenny Henry
Script edited by Danny Robins
Additional material by Doc Brown and Leah Chillery
Produced by Lucy Armitage and Katie Tyrell

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 26 February-18 March 2008 (Series 1), 14 October-4 November 2009 (Series 2), 18 January-22 February 2011 (Series 3), 9 October-13 November 2012 (Series 4)

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