Truss, Lynne
Last Edited: 30-Jan-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recordings are good unless otherwise indicated.

 Inspector Steine
Life at Absolute Zero
Other
Inspector Steine
Date Title Cast Parameters
26-Jan-2007
 1 Operation Whooooo!
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Jan Ravens, John Ramm, Matt Green,
Carla Mendonca, David Holt, Cameron Cleaver, Michael Roberts
Directed by Karen Rose
 27:55, 26173, S
02-Feb-2007
 2 His Last Review
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Jan Ravens, John Ramm, Matt Green,
Allan Corduner, David Holt, Jason Hughes, Carolyn Blackhouse
Directed by Karen Rose
 27:31, 25810, S
09-Feb-2007
 3 Eyes Down
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Jan Ravens, John Ramm, Matt Green,
Michael Roberts
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 27:59, 26245, S
16-Feb-2007
 4 That’s the Way to Do It
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Jan Ravens, John Ramm, Matt Green,
Kim Wall
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 28:09, 26400, S
23-Feb-2007
 5 (The Woman)
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Jan Ravens, John Ramm, Matt Green,
Janet Ellis
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 28:10, 26407, S
02-Mar-2007
 6 The Anniversary
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Jan Ravens, John Ramm, Matt Green,
Ewan Bailey, Kim Wall, David Holt
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 28:10, 26407, S
04-Apr-2008
 7 The Entertainer
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Sam Spiro, Matt Green,
David Holt, Kim Wall
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 27:30, 25783, S
11-Apr-2008
 8 On the Road
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Sam Spiro, Matt Green
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 27:09, 25460, S
18-Apr-2008
 9 The Smallest Show on Earth
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Sam Spiro, Matt Green,
Ethan Brook, Carla Mendonca, Kim Wall, Rachel Atkins, Will Keen
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 28:05, 26329, S
25-Apr-2008
 10 The Uses of Literacy
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Sam Spiro, Matt Green,
Janet Ellis, Nicholas Le Prevost, Michelle Tate, Sophie Dearlove
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 28:00, 26258, S
02-May-2008
 11 Room at the Top
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Sam Spiro, Matt Green,
Mark Heap
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 28:05, 26344, S
09-May-2008
 12 Endgame
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Sam Spiro, Matt Green,
Ewan Bailey, David Holt
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 28:03, 26311, S
25-Sep-2009 13 While The Sun Shines
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Matt Green, Samantha
Spiro, Philip Jackson,  David Holt
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 27:42, 25972, S
02-Oct-2009 14 Separate Tables
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Matt Green, Samantha
Spiro, Adrian Bower, Ewan Bailey, David Holt
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 27:32, 25826, S
09-Oct-2009 15 Harlequinade
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Matt Green, Samantha
Spiro, Adrian Bower, David Holt
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 27:58, 26228, S
16-Oct-2009 16 Variation on A Theme
Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Matt Green, Samantha
Spiro, Janet Ellis
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 28:05, 26329, S
23-Oct-2009 17 In Praise of Love
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Matt Green, Samantha
Spiro, Rachel Atkins, Douglas Hodge, David Holt
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 27:24, 25692, S
30-Oct-2009 18 The Deep Blue Sea
 Michael Fenton Stevens, John Ramm, Matt Green, Samantha
Spiro, Janet Ellis
Music by Anthony May
Directed by Karen Rose
 27:59, 26236, S
17-Oct-2011 19 Towards the End
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Samantha Spiro, John Ramm, Matt
Green, Robert Bathhurst
Sound design: David Thomas
Music: Anthony May
Director: Marilyn Imrie
Producer: Karen Rose
 26:57, 25225, S
24-Oct-2011 20 untitled Michael Fenton Stevens, Samantha Spiro, John Ramm, Matt
Green, Robert Bathurst, Janet Ellis, Ewan Bailey
Sound design: David Thomas
Music: Anthony May
Director: Marilyn Imrie
Producer: Karen Rose
 27:17, 25528, S
31-Oct-2011 21 The End in Sight
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Samantha Spiro, John Ramm, Matt
Green, David Holt, Ewan Bailey
Sound design: David Thomas
Music: Anthony May
Director: Marilyn Imrie
Producer: Karen Rose
 27:55, 26132, S
07-Nov-2011 22 The Home Stretch
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Samantha Spiro, John Ramm, Matt
Green, Janet Ellis, Robert Bathurst
Sound design: David Thomas
Music: Anthony May
Director: Marilyn Imrie
Producer: Karen Rose
 27:21, 25593, S
14-Nov-2011 23 Not Long
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Samantha Spiro, John
Ramm, Matt Green, Janet Ellis, Robert Bathurst
Producer/Director: Marilyn Imrie
 27:26, 25673, S
21-Nov-2011 24 The End
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Samantha Spiro, John Ramm, Matt
Green, Janet Ellis, Robert Bathurst, Ewan Bailey
Producer/Director: Marilyn Imrie
 27:46, 25986, S
23-Dec-2013
 25 The Christmas of Inspector Steine
 Michael Fenton Stevens, Samantha Spiro, Robert Bathurst,
Matt Green, John Ramm, Janet Ellis
Music by Anthony May
Sound design by David Thomas
Producer: Karen Rose
 43:39, 49848, S
Life at Absolute Zero
Date Title Cast Parameters
BBC R4
27-May-2016
 1-1 There's No Need to Shout
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:53, 16269, S
12-Aug-2016
 1-2 Free Parking
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 14:01, 19710, S
02-Dec-2016
 1-3 Gimme Shelter Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:56, 16329, S
02-Apr-2017
 2-1 In Your Dreams Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:40, 16020, S
09-Apr-2017
 2-2 Pavlovian
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:53, 16276, S
16-Apr-2017
 2-3 The Shortest Way Home
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:44, 16106, S
23-Apr-2017
 2-4 Houseroom
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:45, 16118, S
30-Apr-2017
 2-5 The Limit
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:45, 16115, "s"
left channel only
14-May-2017
 2-6 Accept No Substitute
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:57, 16352, S
21-May-2017
 2-7 Mrs Manville Disposes
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 14:01, 16428, S
28-May-2017
 2-8 In Cold(ish) Blood
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:44, 16095, S
04-Jun-2017
 2-9 Darren Springs Forward
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 14:03, 16458, S
11-Jun-2017
 2-10 In the Dark
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:49, 12952, S
01-Apr-2018
 3-1 Consequences
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:53, 16269, S
08-Apr-2018
 3-2 You Never Said
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:40, 16022, S
15-Apr-2018
 3-3 The West Wing
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 14:00, 16401, S
22-Apr-2018
 3-4 Tristan da Cunha
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:39, 15998, S
29-Apr-2018
 3-5 Waiting for JB
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:40, 16020, S
06-May-2018
 3-6 Weemails
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:14, 15509, S
13-May-2018
 3-7 Protective Colouring
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:44, 16102, S
20-May-2018
 3-8 Speed Kills
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:25, 15719, S
27-May-2018
 3-9 A Weight off His Mind
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:27, 15763, S
03-Jun-2018
 3-10 The Day the Earth Moved Slightly
 Written and read by Lynne Truss
Producer Kate McAll
 13:45, 16117, S
Other Works / Other Writing Credits
Acropolis Now
Date Title Cast Parameters
31-Dec-2003
12-Sep-2007
 Cold Calling
 Jason Hughes, Katy Murphy, Kulvinder Ghir, Ewan
Bailey, Becky Hindley, Charlie Simpson, Marlene
Sidaway, Rachel Atkins, Lucy Lott
Directed by Karen Rose
 43:59. 41245, S
20-Sep-2008 Bora Bora
 Derek Jacobi, Corin Redgrave, Cheryl Campbell, Adrian
Bower, Eve Pearce, Jill Johnson, Stephen Critchlow,
Rachel Atkins
Directed by Ned Chaillet
 57:08, 53565, S
06-Dec-2008 Giving Up the Ghost
 Adrian Bower, Struan Rodger, Jeff Rawle, Joe
Absolom, Brendan Charleson, Richard Nichols,
Sara McGaughey
Directed by Kate McAll		 56:28, 52951, S
12-Sep-2004
 It Can’t Go On --
The Issues of Choice in Current Society
  1. Good Choice
  2. Bad Choice
  3. The World Is Our Lobster
 Lynne Truss
Produced by Kate McCall
 14:02, 13169, S
13:54, 13042, S
13:33, 13715, S
13-May-2005
20-May-2005
27-May-2005
03-Jun-2005
10-Jun-2005
17-Jun-2005
 A Certain Age
  1. The Father
  2. The Son
  3. The Husband
  4. The Pedant
  5. The Brother
  6. The Married Man
 Read by Douglas Hodge, Robert Glenister,
Peter Capaldi, Stephen Tomkinson, Simon
Russell Beale, Stuart Milligan
Produced by Dawn Ellis
 26:31, 24873, S
28:11, 13218, m
28:12, 13222, m
28:12, 13224, m
28:07, 13183, m
28:09, 13203, m
R7:
24-Dec-2005
 Lynne Truss’s Christmas Rant
 Lynne Truss
Produced by Viv Beeby
 13:38, 7994, m
13-Mar-2007
10-Aug-2008		 The Parakeet
 read by Douglas Hodge
Producer Lisa Osborne
 13:31, 12676, S
05-Oct-2009 to
09-Oct-2009		 Get Her Off The Pitch!
 Lynne Truss
abridged by Jeremy Osborne
produced by Karen Rose		 14:04, 13189, S
13:44, 12876, S
13:42, 12858, S
13:35, 12750, S
13:51, 12997, S
13-Dec-2010 to
17-Dec-2010		 Uncle Gwyn's Posthumous Curse
 Margaret John, Brian Hibbard, Tom Allen, Lynne
Seymour, Lee Mengo, Howell Evans
directed by Kate McAll
 13:49, 12955, S
13:43, 12867, S
13:45, 12896, S
13:44, 12885, S
13:52, 13008, S
R4X:
20-Dec-2011		 Life Without George
 read by Michael Williams
 14:20, 13449, S
03-Mar-2014 to
14-Mar-2014
 		Cat Out of Hell
 		Reader: Mike Grady
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Producer: Karen Rose
 		13:43, 12850, S
13:33, 19042, S
13:38, 12772, S
13:58, 13072, S
13:48, 12916, S
13:36, 12734, S
13:38, 12760, S
13:25, 12561, S
13:53, 13002, S
13:47, 12913, S
01-May-2012
08-May-2012
15-May-2012
 		Tidal Talk from the Rock Pool
  1. The Periwinkle and the Hermit Crab
  2. The Anemone and the Goby Fish
  3. The Limpet and the Lugworm
  1. Bill Wallis, Geoffrey Palmer
  2. Alison Steadman, Sean Power
  3. Samantha Bond, Tony Robinson
sound recordings by Chris Watson
Producer Sarah Blunt
 28:01, 32874, S
27:42, 32582, S
28:03, 32982, S
07-Sep-2014
14-Sep-2014
21-Sep-2014
 Gossip from the Garden Pond
  1. The Tadpole and the Dragonfly
  2. The Water Boatman and Great
    Diving Beetle
  3. The Garden Spider and Great
    Pond Snail
  1. Julian Rhind Tutt, Alison Steadman
  2. Sandi Toksvig and David Ryall
  3. Amanda Root and James Fleet
sound recordings by Chris Watson and
Tom Lawrence
Producer Sarah Blunt
 27:38, 25867, S
27:39, 25871, S
27:47, 25996, S
26-Jun-2016
03-Jul-2016
10-Jul-2016
 Rumblings from the Rafters
  1. Death Watch Beetle and Queen Wasp
  2. House Fly and Soprano Pipistrelle Bat
  3. Edible Dormouse and Peacock Butterfly
  1. Bill Paterson, Alison Steadman
  2. Lee Mack, Pam Ferris
  3. Hugh Dennis, Amanda Abbington
sound recordings by Chris Watson
Producer Sarah Blunt
 27:33, 25838, S
27:34, 25843, S
27:37, 25866, S




Documentaries and Collateral Material
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