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I Luv U Jimmy Spud by Lee Hall

Schoolboy Jimmy Spud is Newcastle's only trainee angel. Can he use his powers to save someone he loves? Stars Gareth Brown.

Jimmy Spud is Newcastle's only trainee angel, determined to solve cosmic mysteries and save his father from the grip of lung cancer.

Lee Hall's play about poverty, illness, love and redemption.

Jimmy Spud.... Gareth Brown
Mother... Charlie Hardwick
Father.....Dave Whittaker
Grandad/Gabriel ...Joe Ging
Scout........ Michael Walpert

Producer Kate Rowland

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995

First repeated in 1997 as part of Lee Hall's "God's Country" quartet plays: The Love Letters Of Ragie Patel, The Sorrows of Sandra Saint and Spoonface Steinberg.

1 hour

On radio

Thu 24 Sep 202615:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Mon 1 Feb 201610:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 1 Feb 201615:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Tue 2 Feb 201603:00
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  • Mon 20 May 201910:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 20 May 201915:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Tue 21 May 201903:00
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  • Thu 24 Sep 202615:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 24 Sep 202621:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 25 Sep 202605:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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