The Music Teacher

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Comedy written by Richie Webb as multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny

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20100429

20140506 (BBC7)
20200315 (BBC7)
20110921 (R4)

This opening episode sees Nigel having to contend with an atonal Barbershop Quartet and a depressed orchestral timpanist - whilst Belinda is desperate to fill the slot vacated by the Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

20100513

20140513 (BBC7)
20200322 (BBC7)
20110928 (R4)

An aural feast of a musical comedy written by and starring 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb as long suffering multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny. Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda.

Shut away in a tiny windowless practice room in a regional arts centre, music teacher Nigel Penny endures his usual succession of bizarre pupils whilst wrestling with the latest curveball thrown at him by panicked Arts Centre manager, Belinda.

Episode 2 sees Nigel faced with having to up the rate he charges his students; but he finds his negotiating skills somewhat thwarted by a guitarist with no strings, a Cameo tribute act and possibly the world's most confusing busker.

Belinda meanwhile is struggling to cope with the Arts Centre's new emergency procedures - and therefore so is everyone else.

Cast:

Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson.

Producer: Richie Webb

Director: Nick Walker

Musical comedy written by and starring Richie Webb as music teacher Nigel Penny.

20100520

20140520 (BBC7)
20200329 (BBC7)
20111005 (R4)

Another week shut away in a tiny windowless practice room for music teacher Nigel Penny in this aural feast of a musical comedy written by and starring 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb. Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda.

Episode 3 sees Nigel suffering his usual succession of bizarre pupils - an asthmatic flautist and a thrash metal guitarist proving particularly trying. And though Belinda is demanding to use his tiny room to hide booze from the Peruvian Pan Pipe band booked into the Arts Centre that evening, it's having to share his tiny room with an unwanted boorish guest that threatens to take the gloss off Nigel's already rubbish day.

Cast:

Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson

Produced by Richie Webb

Nigel Penny has to share his tiny room with an unwanted boorish guest.

Musical comedy with Richie Webb as long suffering music teacher Nigel Penny.

20100527

20140527 (BBC7)
20200405 (BBC7)
20111012 (R4)

Another tough week shut away in a tiny windowless practice room enduring challenging pupils for music teacher Nigel Penny, in this new musical comedy written by and starring 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb. Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda.

Episode 4 sees Nigel faced with the usual bizarre array of pupils: the midlands answer to Bob Dylan, a homemade keyboard hobbyist and a singing dog prove to be fairly hard going. But it is Arts Centre manager Belinda - so usually the cause of much of his misery - who offers Nigel the chance of a lifetime: to write a jingle advertising the Arts Centre to feature on local radio. This is the chance Nigel has been looking for. This is his way out. This is his ticket to the fame and fortune that he so nearly tasted as a Young Musician of the Year Finalist in 1975. If only he could get The Beatles 'Eight Days A Week' out of his head he'd be fine. But he can't. And the deadline is approaching fast.

Cast:

Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson.

Produced by Richie Webb

Musical comedy starring Richie Webb as long suffering music teacher Nigel Penny.

20100603

20140603 (BBC7)
20200412 (BBC7)
20111019 (R4)

Another week; another barrage of useless pupils for music teacher Nigel Penny in this new musical comedy written by and starring 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb. Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda.

Episode 5: Shut away in his tiny windowless practice room Nigel endures his usual steady stream of talentless pupils: a vocalist claiming a sub-bass range and a wannabe Avant-Garde composer stretching his already taut patience. But hidden amongst the dross is a little ray of light in the shape of Martha - a local folk singer/songwriter who reignites not only his passion for performing, but his passion for - well, passion.

Will Nigel be able to make this opportunity count both on and off stage? Not if Belinda has anything to do with it: she's forgotten to get Nigel's CRB clearance sorted, and the local Beavers and Brownies gang show is in town.

Cast:

Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson.

Produced by Richie Webb

Musical comedy starring Richie Webb as put upon music teacher Nigel Penny.

06 LAST

20100610

20140610 (BBC7)
20200419 (BBC7)
20111026 (R4)

Shut away in a tiny practice room in the bowels of Letchington Arts Centre Nigel endures a steady stream of challenging pupils: a tone deaf Priest struggling to sing mass, a highly-strung harpist with a over-strung harp and the world's most flatulent tuba player rank among the most trying.

Particularly as Nigel is in the middle of an OFSTED inspection - the impending results of which prey heavily on his mind. Almost as heavily as the prospect of the closure of Arts Centre, which Belinda is convinced is on the cards. So much so that she has started a 'Save Letchington Arts Centre' campaign - and she wants Nigel to front a protest song live on the local TV news.

20120404

20151027 (BBC7)
20140924 (R4)

A famous ex-pupil of Nigel's pitches up at the Arts Centre to make a 'where-it-all-began-for-me' documentary, and is keen to interview Nigel.

Whilst Nigel's preparations for the reunion are hampered by the usual array of frustrating pupils, Belinda attempts to use this tenuous connection to a celebrity to generate some much needed revenue for the Arts Centre.

20120411

20151103 (BBC7)
20141001 (R4)

Nigel is charged with creating relaxing music for a pregnant ladies music group.

But whilst Arts Centre director Belinda happily sells tickets for his 'live inspirational womb music' sessions, Nigel is hampered in his preparations by the usual array of challenging pupils and a rather early arrival.

20120418

20151110 (BBC7)
20141008 (R4)

Nigel is offered a reconciliation meeting with local youths after they have run riot in the Arts Centre. And asked to teach them three part harmony into the bargain.

Nigel is tasked with running a choir containing recently convicted youths.

20120425

20151117 (BBC7)
20141015 (R4)

Nigel's attempts to field calls from a dating agency whilst teaching don't go quite as planned. Meanwhile Belinda is attempting to track down the elusive Arts Centre Cleaner, who has taken refuge in Nigel's room.

20120502

20151124 (BBC7)
20141022 (R4)

Nigel finds himself agreeing to join an unusual Simon and Garfunkel tribute act. Meanwhile Belinda is attempting to keep a coachload of pensioners captive in the Arts Centre Gift Shop.

06 LAST

20120509

20151201 (BBC7)
20141029 (R4)

Nigel finds himself losing pupils as a new music teacher who is able to get outstanding exam results starts working at the Arts Centre.

Meanwhile Belinda is keen to put the new income stream to good use.

20130904

20160616 (BBC7)
20150401 (R4)

Nigel inherits a life changing sum of money from a distant relative leading to him considering jacking it all in and starting again. A consideration consistently reinforced by the constant stream of useless pupils.

Meanwhile Belinda is keen to keep Nigel on at the Arts Centre to run free taster sessions. At any cost.

20130911

20150408 (R4)

Belinda's decision to allow the Arts Centre to be a wedding venue means Nigel is charged with providing the music. But his efforts to soundtrack the happiest day of Ebony's life are somewhat hampered by a tone deaf bridesmaid, a pupil with a phobia of sharps and flats and the need to have his piano re-tuned every five minutes.

20130918

20160630 (BBC7)
20150415 (R4)

Belinda offers Nigel's services as a songwriter to the local football team to celebrate their possible cup run. Nigel, however, is slightly more concerned with a money-spinning sideline selling cheap and nasty music satchels whilst coping with his usual array of challenging pupils.

20130925

20160707 (BBC7)
20150429 (R4)

Nigel is somewhat distracted from his teaching duties by his temporary homelessness, his illegally parked rented transit van and Arts Centre Manager Belinda's increased security measures.

20131002

20160714 (BBC7)
20150506 (R4)

Nigel tries to get his online music lessons up and running but finds himself hampered by an inability to speak Portuguese. Meanwhile, with the Arts Centre having been commandeered as a refuge for local flood victims, Belinda is attempting to keep four hundred wet members of the public from dripping on the carpet.

06 LAST

20131009

20160721 (BBC7)
20150513 (R4)

As the local church's bicentennial concert bears down on all at the Arts Centre, Nigel finds himself with an interesting offer from Belinda and a room gradually filling with instruments to boot.

Episodes

Series	Episode	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
01	01	20100429	20140506 (BBC7) 20200315 (BBC7) 20110921 (R4)	This opening episode sees Nigel having to contend with an atonal Barbershop Quartet and a depressed orchestral timpanist - whilst Belinda is desperate to fill the slot vacated by the Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
01	02	20100513	20140513 (BBC7) 20200322 (BBC7) 20110928 (R4)	An aural feast of a musical comedy written by and starring 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb as long suffering multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny. Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda. Shut away in a tiny windowless practice room in a regional arts centre, music teacher Nigel Penny endures his usual succession of bizarre pupils whilst wrestling with the latest curveball thrown at him by panicked Arts Centre manager, Belinda. Episode 2 sees Nigel faced with having to up the rate he charges his students; but he finds his negotiating skills somewhat thwarted by a guitarist with no strings, a Cameo tribute act and possibly the world's most confusing busker. Belinda meanwhile is struggling to cope with the Arts Centre's new emergency procedures - and therefore so is everyone else. Cast: Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson. Producer: Richie Webb Director: Nick Walker Musical comedy written by and starring Richie Webb as music teacher Nigel Penny.
01	03	20100520	20140520 (BBC7) 20200329 (BBC7) 20111005 (R4)	Another week shut away in a tiny windowless practice room for music teacher Nigel Penny in this aural feast of a musical comedy written by and starring 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb. Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda. Episode 3 sees Nigel suffering his usual succession of bizarre pupils - an asthmatic flautist and a thrash metal guitarist proving particularly trying. And though Belinda is demanding to use his tiny room to hide booze from the Peruvian Pan Pipe band booked into the Arts Centre that evening, it's having to share his tiny room with an unwanted boorish guest that threatens to take the gloss off Nigel's already rubbish day. Cast: Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson Produced by Richie Webb Nigel Penny has to share his tiny room with an unwanted boorish guest. Musical comedy with Richie Webb as long suffering music teacher Nigel Penny.
01	04	20100527	20140527 (BBC7) 20200405 (BBC7) 20111012 (R4)	Another tough week shut away in a tiny windowless practice room enduring challenging pupils for music teacher Nigel Penny, in this new musical comedy written by and starring 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb. Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda. Episode 4 sees Nigel faced with the usual bizarre array of pupils: the midlands answer to Bob Dylan, a homemade keyboard hobbyist and a singing dog prove to be fairly hard going. But it is Arts Centre manager Belinda - so usually the cause of much of his misery - who offers Nigel the chance of a lifetime: to write a jingle advertising the Arts Centre to feature on local radio. This is the chance Nigel has been looking for. This is his way out. This is his ticket to the fame and fortune that he so nearly tasted as a Young Musician of the Year Finalist in 1975. If only he could get The Beatles 'Eight Days A Week' out of his head he'd be fine. But he can't. And the deadline is approaching fast. Cast: Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson. Produced by Richie Webb Musical comedy starring Richie Webb as long suffering music teacher Nigel Penny.
01	05	20100603	20140603 (BBC7) 20200412 (BBC7) 20111019 (R4)	Another week; another barrage of useless pupils for music teacher Nigel Penny in this new musical comedy written by and starring 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb. Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda. Episode 5: Shut away in his tiny windowless practice room Nigel endures his usual steady stream of talentless pupils: a vocalist claiming a sub-bass range and a wannabe Avant-Garde composer stretching his already taut patience. But hidden amongst the dross is a little ray of light in the shape of Martha - a local folk singer/songwriter who reignites not only his passion for performing, but his passion for - well, passion. Will Nigel be able to make this opportunity count both on and off stage? Not if Belinda has anything to do with it: she's forgotten to get Nigel's CRB clearance sorted, and the local Beavers and Brownies gang show is in town. Cast: Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson. Produced by Richie Webb Musical comedy starring Richie Webb as put upon music teacher Nigel Penny.
01	06 LAST	20100610	20140610 (BBC7) 20200419 (BBC7) 20111026 (R4)	Shut away in a tiny practice room in the bowels of Letchington Arts Centre Nigel endures a steady stream of challenging pupils: a tone deaf Priest struggling to sing mass, a highly-strung harpist with a over-strung harp and the world's most flatulent tuba player rank among the most trying. Particularly as Nigel is in the middle of an OFSTED inspection - the impending results of which prey heavily on his mind. Almost as heavily as the prospect of the closure of Arts Centre, which Belinda is convinced is on the cards. So much so that she has started a 'Save Letchington Arts Centre' campaign - and she wants Nigel to front a protest song live on the local TV news.
02	01	20120404	20151027 (BBC7) 20140924 (R4)	A famous ex-pupil of Nigel's pitches up at the Arts Centre to make a 'where-it-all-began-for-me' documentary, and is keen to interview Nigel. Whilst Nigel's preparations for the reunion are hampered by the usual array of frustrating pupils, Belinda attempts to use this tenuous connection to a celebrity to generate some much needed revenue for the Arts Centre.
02	02	20120411	20151103 (BBC7) 20141001 (R4)	Nigel is charged with creating relaxing music for a pregnant ladies music group. But whilst Arts Centre director Belinda happily sells tickets for his 'live inspirational womb music' sessions, Nigel is hampered in his preparations by the usual array of challenging pupils and a rather early arrival.
02	03	20120418	20151110 (BBC7) 20141008 (R4)	Nigel is offered a reconciliation meeting with local youths after they have run riot in the Arts Centre. And asked to teach them three part harmony into the bargain. Nigel is tasked with running a choir containing recently convicted youths.
02	04	20120425	20151117 (BBC7) 20141015 (R4)	Nigel's attempts to field calls from a dating agency whilst teaching don't go quite as planned. Meanwhile Belinda is attempting to track down the elusive Arts Centre Cleaner, who has taken refuge in Nigel's room.
02	05	20120502	20151124 (BBC7) 20141022 (R4)	Nigel finds himself agreeing to join an unusual Simon and Garfunkel tribute act. Meanwhile Belinda is attempting to keep a coachload of pensioners captive in the Arts Centre Gift Shop.
02	06 LAST	20120509	20151201 (BBC7) 20141029 (R4)	Nigel finds himself losing pupils as a new music teacher who is able to get outstanding exam results starts working at the Arts Centre. Meanwhile Belinda is keen to put the new income stream to good use.
03	01	20130904	20160616 (BBC7) 20150401 (R4)	Nigel inherits a life changing sum of money from a distant relative leading to him considering jacking it all in and starting again. A consideration consistently reinforced by the constant stream of useless pupils. Meanwhile Belinda is keen to keep Nigel on at the Arts Centre to run free taster sessions. At any cost.
03	02	20130911	20150408 (R4)	Belinda's decision to allow the Arts Centre to be a wedding venue means Nigel is charged with providing the music. But his efforts to soundtrack the happiest day of Ebony's life are somewhat hampered by a tone deaf bridesmaid, a pupil with a phobia of sharps and flats and the need to have his piano re-tuned every five minutes.
03	03	20130918	20160630 (BBC7) 20150415 (R4)	Belinda offers Nigel's services as a songwriter to the local football team to celebrate their possible cup run. Nigel, however, is slightly more concerned with a money-spinning sideline selling cheap and nasty music satchels whilst coping with his usual array of challenging pupils.
03	04	20130925	20160707 (BBC7) 20150429 (R4)	Nigel is somewhat distracted from his teaching duties by his temporary homelessness, his illegally parked rented transit van and Arts Centre Manager Belinda's increased security measures.
03	05	20131002	20160714 (BBC7) 20150506 (R4)	Nigel tries to get his online music lessons up and running but finds himself hampered by an inability to speak Portuguese. Meanwhile, with the Arts Centre having been commandeered as a refuge for local flood victims, Belinda is attempting to keep four hundred wet members of the public from dripping on the carpet.
03	06 LAST	20131009	20160721 (BBC7) 20150513 (R4)	As the local church's bicentennial concert bears down on all at the Arts Centre, Nigel finds himself with an interesting offer from Belinda and a room gradually filling with instruments to boot.