Overview

When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousness. As he hates his job as a schoolteacher, and his home-life with his wife, her senile mother and their insolent teenage son, he has no qualms about lingering around the hospital. But as days turn into weeks, his father obstinately refuses to 'slip away', and Denis' motivation for staying by his father's bedside has more and more to do with Valery, a young nurse.

Top Cast

Alan Bennett

Denis Midgley

Thora Hird

Aunty Kitty

Helen Fraser

Joyce Midgley

Julie Walters

Valery

D

David Major

Colin Midgley

Elizabeth Spriggs

Alice Duckworth

F

Frank Crompton

Frank Midgley

K

Kirk Wild

Denis as a Boy

A

Alison Lloyd

Denis' Mother

J

Jeanne Doree

Joyce's Mother

Derek Fowlds

Hartley

Colin Douglas

Uncle Ernest