Screen One: Pat and Margaret (BBC Four Wednesday 17 May 2023)

Screen One: Pat and Margaret airs Wednesday 17 May 2023 on BBC Four.

A motorway cafeteria waitress from Lancashire is the long-lost sister of an American soap opera star who returns to Britain and is reunited with her on live television. They are pursued by a journalist with a nose for celebrity scandal who will not let them forget their past, no matter how hard they try.

With Victoria Wood (Margaret), Julie Walters (Pat), Celia Imrie (Claire), Duncan Preston (Jim), Thora Hird (Jim’s Mother), Deborah Grant (Stella), Don Henderson (Billy), Shirley Stelfox (Vera), Anne Reid (Maeve), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Helper in Old Age Home), Angela Curran (Lady in Motel), Madge Hindle (Lady in Motel), Lynda Rooke (Bella), Jan Alphonse (Sue), Gabrielle Blunt (Old Lady in Home),

Screen One: Pat and Margaret airs Wednesday 17 May 2023 at 10.10pm on BBC Four

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