Based on the book by Audrey Carter. Read by Lynn Robertson Hay. Meet the Carter Family: Audrey, her husband Tom, their three nearly grown up sons Derek, Anthony and Martin, Pooky the cat and Samuel Smudge the dog. Tom was a high-flying businessman before the call to church ministry hit; he’s now a newly ordained minister in the Parish of St Jude's in the Church of England. Through a series of frank and often funny letters to God, Audrey gives us an unfiltered picture of life as a vicar’s wife. Stop the Parish, I Want to Get Off! was first broadcast on Premier Christian Radio in 1997-1998.
It’s the twelfth day of Christmas, and Audrey wonders if her husband’s halo is slipping.
Someone wants to book St Jude’s for a wedding, purely because they think the church looks pretty.
The eighth day of Christmas. Audrey wonders how she’ll cope as mother-in-law to the boys’ girlfriends when ‘the day’ comes.
All is far from quiet on New Year’s Day…
It’s the sixth day of Christmas. The boys reveal how many seemingly innocent things traumatised them when they were little.
The fifth day of Christmas. Audrey loves her new kitchen floor but feels other parts of the rectory need renewing.
On the fourth day of Christmas, Audrey decides to return a few unwanted gifts.
It’s the first day of Christmas, and two shocking car stickers need to disappear quickly from the rectory.
Christmas Day at the rectory.
It’s Christmas Eve, and at the rectory Audrey is busy with the final Christmas preparations.
It’s the crib service at St Jude’s this afternoon, and baby Jesus has gone missing…
It’s Martin’s 17th birthday. Audrey’s imagination runs wild wondering what his party guests are getting up to.
Audrey receives her first 40-plus makeup fact sheet. The first of many Christmas dinners is consumed.
Audrey decides that she must be the only Mary in a church full of Marthas.
It’s Audrey’s birthday. Time for some stocktaking - and presents, of course…