Show Notes
Welcome to Lower Clumpthorpe.
With its spired church, village green and duck pond, it's the quintessential small English village.
It also has a village hall - home to the Lower Clumpthorpe Parish Council - the lowest level the UK's system of government.
Except, no one has told the members of the Council - who see issues like the village sign and flagpole as matters of national proportion...
If only they could agree on what to agree on.
Starring Sally Swift as Prudence Hawthorne Jane Wing as Jean Wilmot John Kennard as Derek Pritchard Sean Baxendale as Alex Turner and Tammy King as Sophie Calder
Produced and Directed by Andi White
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