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Dot: The Complete Series 1-3
- Narrated by: David Acton, full cast, Kate O'Flynn, Jane Slavin, Fenella Woolgar, Freya Parker
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
Non-member price: $39.50
Publisher's Summary
A rollicking wartime comedy set in the personnel department of the Cabinet War Rooms, starring Fenella Woolgar as Dot.
Dot's had quite enough of making tea in the Cabinet War Rooms. When she finds a cryptic message in the newspaper she enlists the help of her gals - will this be the big break Dot's been waiting for?
Follow Dot as she gets squiffy over Agent Bertie Whiff-Whaff, concocts stirring yet pithy slogans for the war effort and goes on a mission to St Horribly Vulture’s School for Boys to enlist a teacher for...'shhhh...Bletchley Park!'
Dot will do her bally utmost for King and Country in these spiffing tales of derring-do (and, occasionally, derring-don’t), whether investigating suspicious deaths, outwitting dastardly spies or helping the Prime Minister with his French vocab.
Cast:
Dot...Fenella Woolgar
Myrtle...Kate O’Flynn
Peg...Freya Parker
Millicent...Jane Slavin
Peabody...David Acton
Other parts played by Roslyn Hill, Stephen Critchlow, Adie Allen, Alicia Ambrose-Bayly, Susan Jameson, Sean Baker, Brian Protheroe, Sam Rix, Nick Underwood, Scarlett Brookes, David Sterne, Nicholas Murchie, John Dougal, Emma Handy, Ryan Whittle, Stephen Hogan, Elizabeth Counsell, Sean Murray, John Lightbody and Lauren Cornelius, and introducing Officer Background as himself.
Written by Ed Harris.
Produced and directed by Jessica Mitic (series 1 and 2) and Sasha Yevtushenko (series 3).
Critic Reviews
"Little chills the blood so much as the phrase ‘new Radio 4 comedy’. But, dear reader, be un-chilled...a lovely, period-mocking script delivered with its eyebrow at precisely the right level of archness." - (The Times)
"Dot’s quirky wit is all of her own." (The Observer)
"Excellent, eccentrically comic." (The Daily Mail)
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- Anonymous User
- 03-06-2020
A rollicking romp!
Love an acerbic wit? Love your heroine to have a bit of a bite? Love pithy one liners and a nod to the needs of the radio storytelling tropes? I can not praise highly enough the story of Dot, helped and hindered by her War Room colleagues, as she tries her best to get ahead. The storylines are fantastic, the actors superb and the sound effects outstanding. You will honestly laugh it loud as you listen (and hear something new as you listen again!). Give it a listen, you won’t be disappointed!
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- East Stander
- 14-12-2018
Really Disappointed
One of the few failures in my Audible selections. I gave up after 15 minutes, I couldn’t stand it any more. I’m sure there must be people who like this as there were 3 series but sadly not for me.
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- E2Rep@Paradise
- 07-07-2019
Brilliantly bbc radio comedy
Looked everywhere on the bbc shop and iTunes for this brilliant comedy, but audible is fantastic!! every episode is hilarious with a very talented cast.
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- C. Knight
- 22-02-2019
Really poor
This is really poor, I tried to push through it hoping it’d get better but it doesn’t, I couldn’t even finish it before I returned it and I regret the time I spent on it. It’s a mess of silliness and annoying voices with a story so poor I struggled to make sense of it. Terrible.
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- Lviss David
- 16-01-2021
Hilarious
This quirky well written play/book is hilariously funny, too many quality performances. A must listen,,,
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- claire
- 08-01-2021
Overjoyed to find this on Audible
This gets better Series by Series. Dot is my spirit animal...she doesn't want to keep calm or carry on and she particularly hates being confused with Vera Lynn.
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- vixpix4
- 20-09-2020
Entertaining
I loved this so funny shame there's not more,very good more please great comedy acting
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- Christine Dunk
- 29-05-2020
Huzzah!
What a rollicking ride! I was devastated when I finished the series!! I just hope there will be a 4th series - the world needs more Dot!
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- Em
- 25-11-2019
Irritating
Veers between the inspired and the utterly pathetic. But no criticism of the cast, who are uniformly brilliant.
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- b
- 15-06-2019
Brilliant
Absolutely brilliant comedy!! Very well done and a good laugh. Great cast and would love to hear more if the BBC decide to do more
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- Mr James Bond
- 07-04-2019
Brilliant
Not as broody as I thought it might be, absolutely great Audible book first class
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