Capital Gains

Synopsis

A retired widower has his quiet life turned upside down when he mysteriously comes into a large windfallJulius Hutch has planned to spend his retirement years 'pottering' and worrying about his bills, but wakes one morning to discover a foreign merchant bank has put four million pounds into his account - and won't take it back. So Julius, a humble man, sets out to spend the money helping other people, and wooing Pauline, the local bank teller. Up against an enormous banking corporation and an unsavoury property developer, Julius soon discovers that rather than being crushed by these financial giants as he would have been in the past, he is rendered rather more delightfully impervious by his new-found wealth.A wonderful comedy about family, late-in-life romance, environmentalism, and justice against faceless conglomerates, Capital Gains is written in letters, speeches and emails between friends, lovers, and enemies. Perhaps the little man may just triumph at last...CastJulius Hutch .... Peter JonesMrs Pauline Tone .... Celestine RandallKate .... Justine MiddaSexton Lewis .... Jeffrey WickhamNews Reader/Haiku Jack .... Collin JohnsonPeter Fang ..... Peter WhitmanSir Gainford Blounty .... Stephen ThorneDahlia Sprout ..... Jillie MeersTed Smoothie .... David HoltThe Colonel ..... Hugh DicksonLiz Dangerfield .... Toni G BarryHimself ..... Brian PerkinsOther parts are played by Collin Johnson, David Holt, and Brian PerkinsProduction creditsWritten by Collin JohnsonProduced and Directed by Andy Jordan & David BlountOriginally broadcast on BBC Radio 4Series 1: 6th April - 27th April 1995Series 2: 25th July - 14th August 1997©2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd