Genre | Sitcom |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
Starring | Darren Boyd Joanna Page Sarah Smart Brigit Forsyth Lewis MacLeod |
Created by | Laurence Howarth |
Written by | Laurence Howarth John Finnemore |
Produced by | Dawn Ellis |
Recording studio | Shaw Theatre, London |
Original release | 26 September 2007 – 26 November 2010 |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 12 |
Website | BBC Homepage |
Safety Catch is a sitcom on BBC Radio 4 created by Laurence Howarth and written by Howarth and John Finnemore. The series was first broadcast in 2007. It is about Simon McGrath (played by Darren Boyd), a man who works in a job that he does not like – the arms trade. The show mocks issues of morality,[1] although Howarth claims that the show is not satirical.[2] Because of the subject matter and the light-hearted way it is treated, the series is one of Radio 4's most controversial. A second series was broadcast in April 2009.[3]