Vent: A Comedy on Life-Support - Nigel Smith by Unknown, Nigel Smith
All three series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom, plus the hour-long special Locked In, Vent charts coma patient Bens journey from the depths of unconsciousness, where he travels through the distinctly odd landscape of his own mind, to recovery and his attempts to readjust to the real world., In Series 1 and 2, as his mum and wife Mary sit round his bedside and wonder how to wake him up, Bens mind is busy elsewhere. In his imagination, he lives with his 2-year-old daughter Blitz (now miraculously grown up), encounters celebrities such as Sue Lawley, Elvis Presley and Tom Paulin, relives memories from his past and gets into a compromising situation with a fellow inmate at a strangely familiar Torquay hotel. Meanwhile, an imaginary sitcom written by him, about coma patients in a hospital, plays in the background., Locked In, first broadcast as a Friday Play in 2009, sees Ben free of his coma, but suffering from locked-in syndrome. Unable to engage with the world around him, he takes refuge onc
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Vent: A Comedy on Life-Support - Nigel Smith
Unknown, Nigel Smith
Category: Humor
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All three series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom, plus the hour-long special Locked In, Vent charts coma patient Bens journey from the depths of unconsciousness, where he travels through the distinctly odd landscape of his own mind, to recovery and his attempts to readjust to the real world., In Series 1 and 2, as his mum and wife Mary sit round his bedside and wonder how to wake him up, Bens mind is busy elsewhere. In his imagination, he lives with his 2-year-old daughter Blitz (now miraculously grown up), encounters celebrities such as Sue Lawley, Elvis Presley and Tom Paulin, relives memories from his past and gets into a compromising situation with a fellow inmate at a strangely familiar Torquay hotel. Meanwhile, an imaginary sitcom written by him, about coma patients in a hospital, plays in the background., Locked In, first broadcast as a Friday Play in 2009, sees Ben free of his coma, but suffering from locked-in syndrome. Unable to engage with the world around him, he takes refuge onc
