Up the Garden Path
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Up the Garden Path was a 1984 novel by Sue Limb
which was then adapted into a radio series by BBC Radio 4
and later into a television sitcom by Granada TV for ITV
. Both the radio and television series comprising three seasons each, with the radio seasons broadcast in 1987, 1988 and 1993 and the television seasons broadcast in 1990, 1991 and 1993.
The TV series has been repeated on the UK digital channel ITV3
. The radio series is regularly repeated on BBC 7.
Sue Limb
Sue Limb is a British writer and broadcaster. She studied Elizabethan lyric poetry at Cambridge and then trained in education. She lives on an organic farm near Nailsworth, Gloucestershire....
which was then adapted into a radio series by BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
and later into a television sitcom by Granada TV for ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
. Both the radio and television series comprising three seasons each, with the radio seasons broadcast in 1987, 1988 and 1993 and the television seasons broadcast in 1990, 1991 and 1993.
The TV series has been repeated on the UK digital channel ITV3
ITV3
ITV3 is an entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom that is owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. The channel was launched on 1 November 2004. ITV3 is the second largest UK multi-channel, second only to ITV2.-History:...
. The radio series is regularly repeated on BBC 7.
Cast
- Isabelle 'Izzy' Comyn (Imelda StauntonImelda StauntonImelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, OBE is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path, the Harry Potter film series and Vera Drake...
) - - Dick Barnes (Mike Grady) -
- Maria Shadwell (Tessa Peake-JonesTessa Peake-JonesTessa Peake-Jones is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Raquel in the television comedy series Only Fools and Horses. She had a co-starring role in the 1999 TV series Births, Marriages, and Deaths...
- TV; Marty Cruickshank - radio) - - Gwyn Jenkins (Tom MannionTom MannionTom Mannion is a British actor.His television credits include Brookside, Up the Garden Path, The Bill, Boon, Cadfael, Doctor Finlay, Doctors, Eleventh Hour, Holby City, Hustle, Life on Mars, Midsomer Murders, New Tricks, Red Cap, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Spatz, Taggart, The Agatha Christie...
- TV; Sion Probert and Dafydd Hywel - radio) - - Michael Tristram (Nicholas Le PrevostNicholas Le PrevostNicholas Le Prevost is an English actor. He was educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1957 to 1961 and at Kingswood School, Bath from 1961 to 1964...
) - - Louise Tristram (Susan Kyd - TV; Phyllida Nash - radio) -
- Roger 'Razors' Razebrook (René ZaggerRené ZaggerRené Zagger is an English actor, probably best known for playing PC Nick Klein in The Bill from 1999 to 2004. He has also made several guest appearances in Casualty, and Wycliffe.- Background :...
) - - Charles Armstrong (David RobbDavid RobbDavid Robb is an English actor.Robb has starred in various British films and television shows, including films such as Swing Kids and Hellbound. He is well known for playing Germanicus in the famous 1976 BBC production of I, Claudius and as Robin Grant, one of the principal character in Thames...
) - appeared in series 2 - Bill Bailey (Neil McCaul) - appeared in series 2 & 3
- Linda (Adrienne O'Sullivan) - appeared in series 3
- 5C pupil (Siobhan HayesSiobhan HayesSiobhan Hayes is an actress best known for her role as Abi Harper in the British television series My Family.Hayes portrayed Abi Harper as a dimwitted and clumsy student in the British sitcom My Family, a role she has reprised since 2002 to 2008 when the character was written out of the programme...
) - appeared in series 2 & 3