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- Review by:
- Claire Webb
Tonight Howard plays at Poirot after the house is burgled, Kingsley is wobbly-lipped with jealousy because Josie is monopolising his girlfriend, and plummy JP almost bursts with pride when he makes friends with a real-life Mancunian. But it’s Vod (played by the superb Zawe Ashton) who steals the show. We’re used to her barking behaviour but tonight something is seriously amiss.
Gone are the usual military boots, leather trousers, black lipstick and spiky thatch; instead, she wears a dress, long curly locks and a pink flower in her hair. Even more astonishingly, she’s lost for expletives. Could it be? Oh yes: Vod is head over heels in love – and the fallout is hilarious.
About this programme
5/8. Things go from bad to worse for the students as Josie makes a catastrophic error of judgement, Howard turns detective to catch an intruder, a chance encounter leads Oregon to fall for a sexy librarian and Vod is forced to admit she is in love. Kimberley Nixon, Charlotte Ritchie, Zawe Ashton and Greg McHugh star.
Cast and crew
Cast
- JP
- Jack Whitehall
- Kingsley
- Joe Thomas
- Howard
- Greg McHugh
- Josie
- Kimberley Nixon
- Vod
- Zawe Ashton
- Oregon
- Charlotte Ritchie
- Sabine
- Jelka Van Houten
- Heather
- Sophie Wu
- Prof Tony Shales
- Tony Gardner
- Prof Jean Shales
- Sara Stewart
- Dylan
- Ronan Raftery
- Dr Minaj
- Sanjeev Kohli
- Al
- Steve Jackson
- New handyman
- Gareth Tunley
- WPC
- Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Crew
- Director
- Annie Griffin
- Executive Producer
- Judy Counihan
- Executive Producer
- Jesse Armstrong
- Executive Producer
- Sam Bain
- Executive Producer
- Phil Clarke
- Executive Producer
- Andrew Newman
- Producer
- Rhonda Smith
- Writer
- Penelope Skinner
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