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11 April 16: Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (Series 2, Ep2)

Sitcom about an alien invasion of an English village. By Eddie Robson. 2/6: Tempting Fete. Lucy learns the guitar and tempers flare over cakes as the village has its annual fete.

Another chance to hear episode two of series two currently being repeated on Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 4.

2/6: Tempting Fete. Lucy borrows Kat's guitar and finds that this machine irritates aliens. Meanwhile tempers are fraught as preparations are made for the annual village fete, and Richard receives some surprising news from The Computer.

Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is a sitcom about an alien race that have noticed that those all-at-once invasions of Earth never work out that well. So they've locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green behind an impenetrable forcefield in order to study human behavior and decide if Earth is worth invading.

The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when the forcefield went up. So along with Lucy Alexander (the only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, and much to the annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his unintelligible minions and The Computer (his hyperintelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run the invasion.

Katrina Lyons ... Hattie Morahan
Richard Lyons ... Peter Davison
Margaret Lyons ... Jan Francis
Lucy Alexander ... Hannah Murray
Field Commander Uljabaan ... Charles Edwards
The Computer ... John-Luke Roberts
Madeleine ... Jane Slavin
Penny ... Elaine Claxton

Written by Eddie Robson
Script-edited by Arthur Mathews
Original music written and performed by Grace Petrie
Produced by Ed Morrish

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