Citizens

Programme Guide

Outline:
Set is the fictional South London suburb of Ditcham, Limerick Road. This radio 4 (and 5) serial followed the lives of a group of people living in a house in the street, their ups and downs and the lives they lead.

Broadcast Dates:
27/10/87-21/07/91

Details

• The soap originally went out on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.
  
• Clive Brill who worked on the production on The Archers was drafted in to help the soap out when it was in trouble.
  
• Mike Harris wrote 20 episodes.
  

Production Company:
BBC 1987-1991

Internet Pages:
Citizens - the BBC

Your Views:
Ugh! I thought this show was AWFUL!
The 1980s were a time of contrasts: the politically correct liberal thinking of the 1960s had gone underground during the cynical 70s but, by 'Yuppie Heaven 1987', had re-emerged as an ugly beast! I listened to Citizens because I was a huge fan of Waggoners' Walk and hoped that this might be a continuation under another name. It wasn't, although the street the characters lived in was called Limerick Road, which reminded me of Waggoners' Walk, that was the only similarity.
Here we had these characters, old university pals, sharing a house. There was Alex, a single mother, two dreadful twins, an Indian female doctor and a Scottish guy called Hugh.Hugh was a yuppie type, and got involved with villains; Alex got held up by a gunman; the Indian doctor encountered racism AND sexism at work, and all the characters regularly visited their parents, so whole episodes would be set in Liverpool, Glasgow or wherever, with characters we never got to know well.
The regular characters were irritatingly 'right on', upper class English characters were usually portrayed as Heroin addicts or racists, and with so many issues crammed in to the series, character development, even for the regulars, didn't exist. The oddest thing was that the housemates' thoughts were sometimes clearly audible!
I listened until I realised that my sudden, strange desire to smash my radio's face in was motivated by Citizens, then stopped. It must NEVER happen again.
Andrew Brett - 13/02/04

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Soap Cross-overs

• Seeta Indrani who played Anita also played Sita Sharma in Albion Market and Apala in Damon and Debbie.
  
• Brian Murphy who played Ernest also played George Manners in Brookside.
  

Cast:
Hetty Baines
Suzi

Avril Clark
Sally

Kate Duchene
Alex

Scott Farrell
Mike

Christopher Godwin
Toby

Eve Gurney
Jackie

Beverley Hills
Julia

John Hollis
Joe

Seeta Indrani
Anita

Anthony Jackson
Terry

James MacPherson
Hugh

Maggie McCarthy
June

Brian Murphy
Ernest

David Richard-Fox
Neville

Jane Whittenshaw
Kim

Last Update: 13/03/04

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