Unite is a new sitcom starring Radio 4 favourite Mark Steel (Mark Steel’s in Town, The News Quiz), Claire Skinner (Outnumbered), Mark’s son Elliot Steel (Roast Battle, Comedy Central at the Comedy Store), and Ivo Graham (Dave Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee 2019, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week).
Episode 1 on Radio 4 on Wednesday, 16th June at 6.30pm is a repeat of the Comedy Playhouse that was broadcast last January, followed weekly by four brand new episodes.
When Tony (Mark Steel), a working-class, left-wing South Londoner, falls in love and moves in with Imogen (Claire Skinner), an upper-middle-class property developer, their respective millennial sons Ashley (Elliot Steel), a disenfranchised Croydon rude boy, and Gideon (Ivo Graham), who is Eton and Oxbridge-educated and crypto-currency literate, are forced to live under the same roof and behave like the brothers neither of them ever wanted.
Class, compromise, hope, desolation, love, identity, and step-sibling rivalry are just some of the themes explored in this fresh comedy offering.
Our characters get to experience how the other half live. Tony resents his newfound enjoyment of the finer things in life, while Imogen finds Tony's stories of being a working-class hero intriguing and endearing. Ashley's brash attitude belies both insecurity and envy of Gideon who, in turn, is secretly impressed by what he believes to be Ashley's streetwise knowledge of urban culture.
Characters of the show Unite! You have nothing to lose but your prejudices, formed over a lifetime of living within the British class system!
Also starring:
Ayesha Antione (Chewing Gum, In The Long Run)
Kevin Eldon(Hot Fuzz, Brass Eye, Game of Thrones)
Susannah Fielding (This Time with Alan Partridge)
Jamali Maddix (Taskmaster, Hate Thy Neighbour)
Marcus Brigstocke (Love Actually, The Brig Society)
Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake)
Annette Badland (Man Down)
Simon Greenall (I’m Alan Partridge)
Naz Osmanoglu (Horrible Histories)
Written by Barry Castagnola, Elliot Steel and Mark Steel
Producer/Director: Barry Castagnola
