Street and Lane: A BBC Radio 4 comedy

Series 1 and 2 of the comedy about a pair of mismatched Yorkshire builders battling to save their business.

University dropout and would-be novelist Johnny Street and his worker-of-the-world mate Arthur Lane are the odd-couple partners in a one-horse, two-man family building firm (slogan: 'Up Your Street, Down Your Lane'). Together, they travel the Yorkshire suburbs in their white van, tackling tricky household repairs with their unique combination of art and craft.

No job is too small for the intrepid duo: although some are a little unusual, like the perilously perched piano on a music teacher's stairs, the mystery whiff in an infants' school and the faulty tenor bell in a church belfry. But armed with their trusty ladders and a bucketful of banter, they manage to deal with whatever problems come their way - until a break-in makes Johnny start thinking about the road less travelled...

Scripted by Ian McMillan and Dave Sheasby (The Blackburn Files), and suffused with their characteristic laconic humour, this wry, whimsical comedy stars Nick Lane and Shaun Dooley as Johnny Street and Fine Time Fontayne as Arthur Lane, with guest appearances from Geoffrey Whitehead, Stephen Hogan, Sandra Dickinson and Muzz Khan.

Production credits Written by Ian McMillan and Dave Sheasby Produced and directed by David Hunter

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 19 August-9 September 2005 (Series 1), 3-24 January 2007 (Series 2)

Cast Johnny Street - Nick Lane/Shaun Dooley Arthur Lane - Fine Time Fontayne Christine - Becky Hindley Tom - Richard Katz Great Northern Man - Gerard McDermott Mrs Priam-Rhodes - Margaret Robertson Ben Nevis - Kenny Blyth Tina - Hannah Storey Sidney Sanderson - Geoffrey Whitehead Alison - Bronwyn Lim Shafto - John Banks Stanley French - Stephen Hogan The Rev. Susan - Claire Rushbrook Madeleine - Sandra Dickinson Charles - John Carlisle Janet - Christine Kavanagh John - Mark Straker Franklin - Sam Dale Julia - Rachel Atkins Pete - Muzz Khan Lucy - Bethan Walker

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