Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully

Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is a sitcom on BBC Radio 2 (pilot and series 1) and BBC Radio 4 (series 2), written by Eddie Robson and produced by Ed Morrish. It concerns the invasion of the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green by an alien race, the Geonin.

Welcome to our Village, Please Invade Carefully

Genre	Sitcom
Running time	30 minutes
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language	English
Home station	BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 4
Starring	Hattie Morahan Julian Rhind-Tutt Charles Edwards
Written by	Eddie Robson
Produced by	Ed Morrish
Original release	5 July 2012 – 19 November 2014
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	11

The programme stars Hattie Morahan as Katrina Lyons, a 30-something professional from London who was visiting her parents at the time of the invasion. Julian Rhind-Tutt (series 1) and Charles Edwards (series 2) star as Uljabaan, the leader of the aliens in smooth-talking human form.^[1] The pilot episode featured Katherine Parkinson as Katrina

The pilot aired on 5 July 2012. Series 1 was broadcast 7–28 March 2013, with the second series beginning on 15 October 2014. The Radio Times called it "the sitcom success story of 2012..."^[2]

Cast

• Katrina Lyons - Hattie Morahan (Series 1 & 2) and Katherine Parkinson (Pilot)
• Field Commander Uljabaan - Julian Rhind-Tutt (Series 1), Charles Edwards (Series 2)
• Richard Lyons - Peter Davison
• Margaret Lyons - Jan Francis
• Lucy Alexander - Hannah Murray
• Computer - John-Luke Roberts