Stop the Parish, I Want to Get Off!

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.

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The church grounds at St Jude’s have a massive clean up in preparation for a visit from the Archdeacon.

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The fifth day of Christmas. Audrey loves her new kitchen floor but feels other parts of the rectory need renewing.

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Horror of horrors - the church’s boiler has broken down.

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Tom is happy that the Evensong congregation has doubled - but the new addition only came by mistake.

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A group of school kids pay St Jude’s a visit.

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Audrey admires a congregant’s prayer for Education Sunday, and a new attendee’s pet poodle provides some fun for the choir.

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Audrey recovers from a trip to the dentist’s.

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Christmas is over and the nest is empty once again.

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It’s the twelfth day of Christmas, and Audrey wonders if her husband’s halo is slipping.

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The eleventh day of Christmas. The rectory has its first tramp - a vegan!

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The eighth day of Christmas. Audrey wonders how she’ll cope as mother-in-law to the boys’ girlfriends when ‘the day’ comes.

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All is far from quiet on New Year’s Day…

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It’s the sixth day of Christmas. The boys reveal how many seemingly innocent things traumatised them when they were little.

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Audrey wonders if she’s having a mid-life crisis.

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On the fourth day of Christmas, Audrey decides to return a few unwanted gifts.