The Trip – 06 Dec 2010

Today’s recording starts with the end of Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders. There’s a trail for At Home with the Georgians. A trail for Jimmy McGovern’s Accused. Then it’s The Trip – The Angel at Hetton. This is the last episode. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan visit Bolton Abbey. Steve Coogan falls in a river. Their meal is breakfast at the Angel Inn in Hetton. Their cheapest meal of the series. Steve takes Rob to meet his parents. They’re played by actors Bernard Gallagher and Ann O’Brien. On the way back to London, they sing some ABBA. I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t include the slightly reluctant hug. Rob is back with his family. Steve is back to an empty London flat. But he does pass on a job offer of a big HBO series that would take him out of the country for seven years. Media Centre Description: Recorded from BBC TWO on Monday 6th December 2010 21:58 BBC Genome: BBC TWO Monday 6th December 2010 22:00 After this there’s a trail for Mary Beard’s Pompeii. Then the recording ends with…

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