Street and Lane is a radio comedy series written by Dave Sheasby and Ian McMillan. The main characters, Johnny Street (Nicholas Lane/Shaun Dooley) and Arthur Lane (Fine Time Fontayne) are partners in a small Yorkshire building firm. The series records their rather odd experiences in Yorkshire suburbia, doing a variety of small and large jobs for householders. Street and Lane often wax philosophical to each other about life, the Universe, and everything. Lane worked for Street's father in the firm, which apparently suffered from certain financial irregularities. Street gave up a teaching career to rescue the family business. The humour is understated, lurking under a stereotypically laconic Yorkshire mindset. Various running jokes are used. "Head Office calling!" means Mrs. Street, who fields customer calls at home, is calling Johnny on his mobile phone. The "lady with the boiler on Misperton Avenue" is a fictional customer used as an all-purpose excuse for not being able to take on a job right away (the builders do not want to seem desperate for business) or for making a quick exit from an embarrassing situation. Dave Sheasby died in 2010, making it unlikely that more episodes will be written.
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Series 1
01. Patio Marital. Street and Lane take on a patio job at the home of warring couple, Christine and Tom Rose
02. Blues On The Stairs. Johnny Street and Arthur Lane, our two Yorkshire builders in a white van, are called to tackle the tricky task of a piano perilously perched on the Edwardian staircase of feisty music teacher Mrs Priam-Rhodes.
03. Singing Detectives. Our intrepid pair of Yorkshire builders, Johnny Street and Arthur Lane, are augmented by Tina, a glamorous young woman on work experience, as they seek out the origins of a nasty smell in a local school under the nose of caretaker and music-theatre aficionado Sidney Sanderson.
04. Hitting The Highs. Yorkshire builders, Johnny Street and Arthur Lane, reach new professional heights curing the leak in the penthouse roof of an Australian businesswoman who is single-handedly regenerating South Yorkshire.
Specialist help comes in the form of Shafto, ex-miner turned fearless free climber.
Series 2
01. Ringing The Changes. A vicar needs help in his belfry, as the Yorkshire builders get in a flap over an old feud.
02. Fade To Black. Street and Lane come across a pair of faded film stars who are not what they first seem.
03. Estimates Day. On their round of pricing local jobs, Street and Lane come across two mirrors, two Janets, two Riojas and one John, twice over.
04. Going For Broke. The Yorkshire builders are warned over a dodgy landlord - and a birth is imminent.
