At Home with the Snails

At Home with the Snails

Infobox Radio Show
show_name = At Home with the Snails


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format = Black comedy
runtime = 30 minutes
country = flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom
language = English
home_station = BBC Radio 4
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starring = Geoffrey Palmer
Angela Thorne
Gerard Foster
Miranda Hart
Debra Stephenson
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writer = Gerard Foster
director =
producer = Jane Berthoud
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first_aired = 26 June 2001
last_aired = 8 August 2002
num_series = 2
num_episodes = 8
audio_format = Stereophonic sound
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"At Home with the Snails" is a somewhat surreal BBC Radio 4 comedy, written by Gerard Foster, about a British dysfunctional family. The cast includes Geoffrey Palmer as George Fisher, Angela Thorne as Beverly Fisher, Gerard Foster as Alex, Miranda Hart as Rose, and Debra Stephenson as Hosanna. It was produced by Jane Berthoud.

"At Home with the Snails" is often repeated on BBC 7.

The story features Alex's obsession with snails, killing them, collecting them, having sexual desires for them and by season two, even attempting to turn into one. In the second season his mother and father (George and Beverly) decide to fake their own deaths and spy on their son in order to write a book about his descent into madness.The story explored themes of family, sexual preference and aging in a humorous yet thought-provoking style.

The characters are all mentally deranged, but only aware of each others problems not their own.

George is a pompous academic who puts his obscure, pretentious and pointless pontificating above all else including his family. He encourages Alex's snail obsession to get material for his books. Beverly, his sexually frustrated wife makes "nice things", such as a 200ft tall "family mug tree". In one episode she develops racial dysphoria, and starts painting her face with boot polish, believing that she is a black person trapped in a white body. Their daughter Rose has her heart in the wrong place - jammed under her armpit. She runs a confectionery shop selling "chocolate excretions" and "jelly war babies".

The humour is politely and subliminally obscene.

Episode list


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