LIVES: 11 Dec 13: Rooms for Rent




Lives in a Landscape show

Summary: Alan Dein returns with more extraordinary stories of ordinary life in Britain. In Rooms for Rent, he meets Helga and her daughter Melody - from a small Norfolk town - who, ever since husband - a Cliff Richard impersonator - upped sticks and left, rent out rooms. Will is a scaffolder and has been renting from Helga for a year, but graduate trainee Colin has only just joined the household. How will Colin’s clarinet-playing fit in with Will’s Nirvana-style guitar band? And as the 'family' gather round the communal dinnertable, they dream of a fulfilling future beyond this often noisy house of song and dance. Producers Sarah Bowen and Simon Elmes