All four series of the comedy drama set in Edinburgh, following the lives of three fortysomething best friends.

Caroline, Fiona and Ruth are lifelong friends, who've grown up together, laughed and cried together, and stood by each other through thick and thin. They may not always see eye to eye, and they might drive each other crazy, but they can't do without each other.

But life's got a lot more complicated since they were 22, when the only things they carried around were handbags. Now, in midlife, they've got more baggage than the average airport carousel. Caroline's been dumped by her politician husband of 10 years, Alistair; single mother Ruth is struggling with her monosyllabic teenage son; and Fiona's walked out on her husband Roddy - and moved in with Caroline, in her poky top-floor Marchmont flat.

Over the course of several manic Midsummers, crisis-ridden Christmases and hopeful Hogmanays, they grapple with ex-husbands and new lovers; broodiness and babies; divorce, dementia and alcoholism - only to find themselves climbing their biggest mountain yet. Aided by Roddy, Fiona's elderly mum Gladys, and Caroline's larger-than-life dad Hector, they set about forging their own new, strangely shaped, thoroughly 21st Century family...

Written by Hilary Lyon, who also stars as Caroline, this funny, poignant sitcom is a love letter to female friendship - and to one of Europe's loveliest capital cities, Edinburgh. Phyllis Logan and Adie Allen co-star as Fiona and Ruth, with Peter Capaldi and Stuart McQuarrie as Alistair, Robin Cameron as Roddy, June Watson as Gladys and David Rintoul as Hector.

Production credits:

Written by Hilary Lyon

Produced by Moray Hunter and Gordon Kennedy

Directed by Marilyn Imrie

Broadcast Assistant: Sarah Tombling

Sound Engineer: Phil Horne

Studio Manager: Alison McKenzie

Theme song by Nusa

An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4

Cast:

Caroline - Hilary Lyon

Fiona - Phyllis Logan

Ruth - Adie Allen

Roddy - Robin Cameron

Caitlin - Holly Wagner

Mike/Simeon - Stuart McQuarrie

Rev Nicholas/Tax man - Moray Hunter

Alistair - Peter Capaldi/Stuart McQuarrie

Kir - Peter Capaldi

Caitlin - Holly Wagner

Gladys - June Watson

Fats/Waiter - Gordon Kennedy

Janie - Hilary MacLean

Gillian - Carolyn Bonnyman

Trampy little nurse/Miriam/Polly/Wifie - Nicola Grier

Malcolm/Peter - Jack Docherty

Preston - Roger May

Hector - David Rintoul

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 6 April-11 May 2005 (Series 1), 4 August-1 September 2006 (Series 2), 5 December 2007-9 January 2008 (Series 3), 8 July 2009 (Series 4)