Share and Share Alike (radio series)

Not to be confused with Share and Share Alike, a 1925 silent film.

Share and Share Alike is a British radio sitcom that aired on BBC Radio 4 from 24 July to 18 September 1978.^[1][2] Written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, the series starred Hugh Paddick and Michael Robbins as two brothers who must learn to live peacefully with one another to inherit the fortune from their mother's will.^[1][2][3]

Share and Share Alike

Genre	Sitcom
Running time	30 minutes
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC Radio 4
Syndicates	BBC Radio 4 Extra
Starring	Hugh Paddick Michael Robbins Elizabeth Morgan Denis Bond
Written by	Harold Snoad Michael Knowles
Produced by	John Dyas
Original release	24 July (1978-07-24) – 18 September 1978 (1978-09-18)
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	9

Cast

• Hugh Paddick as Leslie Burrows
• Michael Robbins as Jack Burrows
• Elizabeth Morgan as Janice
• Denis Bond as Ron

Episodes

All episodes were written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, and produced by John Dyas.^[1][2][4]

No.	Title	Recorded [1]	Original release date [1]
1	"The Will"	TBA	24 July 1978 (1978-07-24)
Guest starring Deryck Guyler as the Solicitor.[2][4]
2	"The Codicil"	TBA	31 July 1978 (1978-07-31)
Guest starring Ron Pember as Sid.[2][4]
3	"Missing Persons"	21 May 1978 (1978-05-21)	7 August 1978 (1978-08-07)
Guest starring Deryck Guyler as the Solicitor.[2][4]
4	"The Strike"	TBA	14 August 1978 (1978-08-14)
Guest starring Reginald Marsh as the Managing Director and George A. Cooper as the Shop Steward.[2][4]
5	"Age of Concern"	TBA	21 August 1978 (1978-08-21)
Guest starring Karin MacCarthy as Vivien.[2][4]
6	"Shared Interests"	21 May 1978 (1978-05-21)	28 August 1978 (1978-08-28)
Guest starring Margot Boyd as the Instructor, Rosalyn Slater as the Receptionist and Peter O'Sullevan as the Racing Commentator.[2][4]
7	"The Film"	TBA	4 September 1978 (1978-09-04)
Guest starring Rob Pember as Sid and Frank Thornton as the Film Director.[2][4]
8	"Redundancy"	TBA	11 September 1978 (1978-09-11)
Guest starring Reginald Marsh as the Managing Director and George A. Cooper as the Shop Steward.[2][4]
9	"The Séance"	22 November 1977 (1977-11-22)	18 September 1978 (1978-09-18)
Guest starring Deryck Guyler as Mr Brown and Henry McGee as Archie Cartwright.[2][4]

Production

An original pilot episode was recorded on 19 January 1975, but was never broadcast. Reg Varney and Roy Kinnear starred as the two brothers.^[5]

Producer John Dyas had previously worked as producer on the Dad's Army radio series, written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles and broadcast from 1974 to 1976.^[6][7] Sixty-seven episodes of the television series were adapted for radio.^[7]

Archival status

Due to the BBC's policy of wiping material after broadcast, only three episodes of the series were kept in the BBC's archives: "Missing Persons", "Shared Interests", and the final episode, "The Séance".^[1] However, in 2001, as part of the BBC's Treasure Hunt campaign, Harold Snoad returned copies of the entire series, including the unbroadcast pilot episode, to the BBC's radio department.^[1]

Media release

In November 2023, the series was commercially released for the first time, distributed by BBC Digital Audio as a digital audiobook.^[8]

See also

• Dad's Army radio series, a series of adaptations, written by Snoad and Knowles, of the television series of Dad's Army
• It Sticks Out Half a Mile, a radio sitcom by Snoad and Knowles that ran from 1983 to 1984