Two CaravansAn idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday. But who picks our strawberries these days? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and eager to improve her excellent English and find true love with a romantic Englishman; Andriy, the miner's son from the other Ukraine; the Poles: Bob Dylan fan,

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her brother Ammars hip hop Islamism and his father-in-laws need to see grandchildren

The Mid-Life Crisis

and secret identities

most famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National

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Because Agatha Christie has something Nan wants

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