A Play, A Pie & A Pint - Episode Guide

Season 1

Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 1, 2019

Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window

On what is his last day on earth, Chic takes a musical look back at the ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies of his glittering, but tragically flawed career.

Ring Road

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 8, 2019

Ring Road

Lisa is turning 40, heading towards a crisis and is bored with people judging her for not having kids. She lures her brother-in-law to a hotel to do something about it.

A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 15, 2019 (45 min)

A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity

After her husband dies, Annabelle strikes up a relationship with his foul-mouthed employee Jim and finds freedom through expressing herself in brand new, vulgar ways.

Toy Plastic Chicken

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Sep 22, 2019 (50 min)

Toy Plastic Chicken

A blackly comic exploration of security, degradation and resistance. At a Scottish airport a toy plastic chicken is suspected to be a bomb. The owner is screened for domestic radicalisation and her interrogators push her further and further.

Meat Market

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Sep 29, 2019

Meat Market

The fifth production from BBC Scotland's televising of A Play, A Pie & A Pint is Meat Market by Chris Gray.

It is a comic tale fraught with duplicity and dodgy ethics, three strangers meet in a 24-hour gym late at night to negotiate the sale of a human kidney.

Crocodile Rock

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 6, 2019

Crocodile Rock

Set in Millport in 1997, it is a comic and musical coming of age story about 17 year-old Steven. Feeling hemmed in by island life, everything changes when a chance encounter with a drag queen shows Steven a world he never knew existed.

Specials

The Documentary

Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Jun 13, 2019 (30 min)

The Documentary
Documentary celebrating the 10th anniversary of the groundbreaking lunchtime theatre at Oran Mor, a renovated former church in the West End of Glasgow.