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		NORTH BY NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - Series 2 By Katherine Jakeways BBC Radio 4 From: Friday 2nd December @ 11.30am (X6 episodes) Featuring an All Star Cast & narrated by Sheila Hancock Producer: Victoria Lloyd Following the huge acclaim of the first series, Series 2 of North by Northamptonshire by Katherine Jakeways' will air on BBC Radio 4 from December 2nd 2011 to January 6th 2012 at 11.30 am. As is well-known: Yorkshiremen wear flat caps and Essex girls wear short skirts; Liverpudlians are scallies and Cockneys are wideboys. Northamptonians gaze wistfully at these stereotypes and wish for an identity of any kind and a label less ridiculous than Northamptonians. Northamptonshire, let us be clear, is neither north, nor south nor in the Midlands. It floats somewhere between the three eyeing up the distinctiveness of each with envious eyes. Now Katherine Jakeways is giving Northamptonshire an identity. And she waits, benevolently, for her home-county to thank her. And possibly make her some kind of Mayor. Joined by the same incredible cast which graced Series One - including Sheila Hancock as the Narrator, Penelope Wilton, Mackenzie Crook, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon - and with the exciting addition of Geoffrey Palmer, North by Northamptonshire promises once again to delight audience and critics. Wadenbrook is a small market town in a corner of Northamptonshire, and will be familiar to anyone who has ever lived anywhere. This year, its residents are building up to a Dickensian Festival weekend, so expect mob caps, cravats and shawls which are usually used as cat-blankets. Also expect a great many laughs, a certain amount of loneliness, and the same warmth and affection which underpinned the widely- praised first series. Here’s just some of what the press said about Series One: “Katherine Jakeways is the new Victoria Wood. And that’s official. Her character comedy is so acutely observed and so sharp that it’s in danger of causing permanent injury. Sheila Hancock narrates this story of life in a small Northamptonshire town that’s home to the funniest of locals. Miss this at your peril.” Radio Times 8/6/10 “A new four-part series with the potential to become a classic in the Little Britain mode. The laughs are cruel, but the monsters of suburbia are curiously sympathetic, and the characters so well drawn and well played that this could run and run.” Time Out 10/6/10 “It would have been worth listening to the Radio 4 sitcom North by Northamptonshire just for Sheila Hancock and Penelope Wilton, but it turned out to be good in all sorts of other ways too. Setting it in the fictitious market town of Wadenbrook, writer Katherine Jakeways picked off local “characters” with the eagle eye of a rooftop sniper. Clearly a major comedy writing talent, Jakeways is as adept at coming up with stinging one-liners as she is able to create a choice gallery of English eccentrics. Casting Sheila Hancock as the narrator was inspired: her sardonic and sometimes downright snide interventions making a perfect counterpoint to the barminess of Wadenbrook’s social round. I can imagine this one transferring well to TV.” The Stage 05.07/10 "A star cast decorates Katherine Jakeways' slightly surreal comedy about the inhabitants of a small town...There's a tinge of Under Milk Wood about it all" Radio Choice, The Times, 16.06.10 "Funny and touching series about a small town preparing for a talent night" Radio Choice, The Independent 16.06.10 "Great expectations abound for North by Northamptonshire. This new four-part comedy of the reflective kind, set in a small town bubbling with hope, fear and mistrust, a bit like an inland English Under Milk Wood faintly reminiscent of Peter's Tinniswood's lively studies in eccentricity. By Katherine Jakeways, it has the great benefit of Sheila Hancock as narrator, Mackenzie Crook as Rod the supermarket manager, and the author herself as instructor of both driving and judo. The overall plot is how they're all getting ready for a talent night, produced by Mary (fab Penelope Wilton)." Gillian Reynolds' Choice, Daily Telegraph, 16.06.10 “Sheila Hancock is the deadpan narrator for the opening episode of this spiffing new comedy series, starring Mackenzie Crook... Cleverly written, understated comedy... excellent sitcom... continues to hit the spot... very funny comedy... Let’s hope a new series is commissioned soon”. FIVE STARS Daily Mail 12/6/10 - 07.07.10 FURTHER INFORMATION: Amanda Emery Emery PR amanda@emerypr.com Tel: 07702 604735
	Dec 2011	From 2nd December, the 2nd series of Katherine’s own Radio 4 series will air. North by Northamptonshire stars the same amazing cast as Series One as well as the brilliant Geoffrey Palmer.
	Oct 2011	Katherine has been recording with the regular cast for the new series of CBBC’s BAFTA and Comedy Award winning Horrible Histories. She has also written several sketches for the new series.
	2011	This year Katherine has appeared in Sky’s Mount Pleasant, BBC3’s Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, BBC4’s Teenage Kicks, and Mark Gatiss’ The First Men In The Moon. On radio 4, she was heard as Elizabeth Pepys in the 1st 2 volumes of The Diary of Samuel Pepys and recording begins soon on the next 7 volumes.
	Sep 2010	Katherine appeared as The Entire Supporting Cast alongside Armstrong and Miller in their sell-out national tour. She toured the UK in a small bus with the boys and was the only other cast member, playing numerous parts on stage with them every night for 10 weeks. They ate a lot of pasta.
	June 2010	Listen on Wednesday June 16th, at 11:30, as the first episode of North By Northamptonshire airs on Radio 4. This is Katherine's writing debut. She has written the 4 part series, which is set in a small market town in Northamptonshire (very similar to the one in which Katherine actually grew up). Katherine also appears in the series, along with an unbelievable cast, including Sheila Hancock, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu, Mackenzie Crook and Kevin Eldon. Tell everyone you know, and if you should happen to miss it, hear it on iPlayer after June 16th.
	May 2010	Katherine is recording a pilot for radio 4 of a show with Angelos Epithemiou of Shooting Stars fame. She plays the head of radio 4.
	May 2010	BAFTA nominations - two shows which Katherine was in have been nominated - Armstrong and Miller and Miranda. And best of all they're not in the same category, so both of them could win. Results announced at the ceremony on 6th June.
	March 2010	Filming has now begun on the brilliant 3rd series of The Armstrong and Miller Show.
	March 2010	Excitingly - recording has begun on Katherine's very own debut series for Radio 4. A really amazing cast has been assembled. Due to be transmitted in June this year.
	Oct 2009	Katherine appears with Miranda Hart in Miranda on BBC2, as Miranda's nemesis Amanda Barnes.
	September 2009	The Mint People are the new faces of Trebor Mint Gum. Watch out for them all over the place - tv, online, posters... Katherine is Lisa - the female face of the Mint People.
	July 2009	Mark Gatiss' star-studded adaptation of HG Wells' The First Men In The Moon is currently in production. Katherine is playing the part of Mum. Watch out for it being shown on BBC4 next year.
	Jan 2009	Katherine has started filming on the 2nd series of The Armstrong and Miller Show.
	April 2008	Katherine is a regular member of the Look Away Now team on Radio 4. Listen every Wednesday at 6:30pm or Thursday at 11pm.
	April 2008	Katherine will be appearing on Bremner, Bird and Fortune (Channel 4) this Sunday April 13^th.
	March 2008	Hear Katherine on The Now Show this Friday 28^th March, on Radio 4.
	March 2008	Katherine will be appearing at The Drill Hall with Armstrong and Miller on the 10^th and 17^th March, trying out material for the 2^nd series of The Armstrong and Miller Show for BBC1.
	March 2008	Filming of a sketch show pilot starring and written by Fiona Allen for Channel X.
	March 2008	Go to www.comedybox.tv and watch Katherine in episodes of The Very Real Adventures of Batman and Robin and alongside Michael Greco in The Meeting.
	March 2008	Katherine plays Angela Bassett in Buy Me Up TV on Radio 2. Listen on Saturdays at 1pm from 8^th- 29^th March. Also featuring Eamonn Holmes, Ruth Madoc, Rich Hall, Brian Blessed and Terry Wogan.
	January 2008	Go to www.log.tv and see Katherine as Penny Bundock as she invites you to explore Around My Region.
	December 2007	Katherine will be appearing alongside David Tennant and Julia Davies in Mark Gatiss’ adaptation of The Wooden Overcoat on Radio 4 on December 22^nd.
	November 2007	The second series of Comedy Shuffle can be seen on BBC3. Katherine will be appearing as deluded driving instructor, Faye Waddingham.
	October 2007	See Katherine as a regular performer in The Armstrong and Miller Show, on BBC1 at 9:30 starting Friday 26^th October. The series runs for 7 weeks.
	February 2007	Katherine is filming a pilot of her show Wadenhoe Village Hall with Rob Brydon’s production company, Jones The Film.
	January 2007	Filming has begun of The Armstrong and Miller Show, for BBC1, to be screened later in the year.
	January 2007	Katherine will, once again be a roving reporter on Celebrity Big Brother’s Little Brother, on Channel 4 and E4. See her throughout the series appearing in a jumpsuit and investigating the lives and the fans of the celebrity housemates.
	November 2006	Filming of Comedy Shuffle - new show for BBC3 to be screened in the New Year. Katherine will be seen as impressionist Sylvia Fox and driving instructor Faye Waddingham.
	October 2006	Hear Katherine performing as Sylvia Fox on Radio 2's Out to Lunch.
	October 2006	Recording of second series of Deep Trouble for Radio 4. Katherine plays Commander Alison Fairbanks in this sitcom written by Ben Willbond and Jim Field Smith.
	September 2006	Catch Katherine in the first episode of the new series of Extras on BBC2, alongside Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Ashley Jensen and Orlando Bloom
	September 2006	Recording of Radio 4's Rubbish with Reece Dinsdale
	August 2006	Katherine is the new roving reporter for Big Brother's Little Brother on Channel 4. She can be seen reporting from the hometowns of finalists Pete, Ashleigh and Richard.
	June 2006	Filming new series of Extras with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Katherine plays Louise, who used to be an extra with Maggie and has gone on to become an actress.
	May 2006	Filming an episode of Bearded Ladies for BBC2.
	May 2006	Filming a pilot with Armstrong and Miller for a new BBC1 sketch show. The sketch show has now been commissioned and they will be filming the series in late 2006 or early 2007.
	May 2006	The Message begins transmission on BBC3. Katherine plays various characters in sketches alongside writer and creator Johnny Daukes,
	March 06 - June 06	Katherine is back in the West End alongside Christian Slater and Alex Kingston in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
	Oct 2005	Katherine stars in brand new BBC Radio 4 comedy Deep Trouble.
	Aug 2005	Edinburgh beckons. Katherine is currently appearing alongside Bill Bailey and Alan Davies in a new production of Neil Simon'sThe Odd Couple, at The Assembly Rooms Edinburgh.
	July 2005	New Website online.