Talking Heads
Talking Heads
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Talking Heads

6.7 / 10 · 7 votes
1988
~35 min / ep
2 seasons
12 episodes
DramaComedy

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.

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  • A Chip in the Sugar

    1.A Chip in the Sugar

    19-04-198839 min

    Graham is a middle-aged man with a history of mild mental health problems, living with his mother in Leeds.

  • A Lady of Letters

    2.A Lady of Letters

    26-04-198831 min

    Irene Ruddock is not afraid to speak, or rather write, her mind: she writes letters to her MP, the police, the chemist - everyone she can, to remedy the social ills she sees around...

  • Bed Among the Lentils

    3.Bed Among the Lentils

    03-05-198849 min

    Susan, an alcoholic, nervous vicar's wife, distracts herself from her ambitious, and, as she sees him, vainly insensitive husband and his doting parishioners by conducting an affai...

  • Soldiering On

    4.Soldiering On

    10-05-198834 min

    Muriel is a strong woman, and always has been — a pillar of the community, a regular charity worker, and a volunteer for Meals on Wheels; and looking after her mentally ill daughte...

  • Her Big Chance

    5.Her Big Chance

    17-05-198834 min

    Lesley is an aspiring actress, who, after a series of unpromising extra roles on television programmes such as Crossroads, finds what she believes to be her big break as the advent...

  • A Cream Cracker Under the Settee

    6.A Cream Cracker Under the Settee

    24-05-198830 min

    Doris, aged seventy-five, is a tidy woman — and when she suffers a fall after trying to clear up after her considerably less thorough home help, Zulema, it becomes apparent that he...

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