The format persists with, and I say this through gritted teeth, old favourites such as the intros round and the one where contestants have to sing the next line to an, open quotation marks, well known, close quotation marks, song. Meanwhile, Kurtan is coming to terms with his decision not to go to Swindon College and is struggling to get back into the swing of village life. I was really lucky it was a solid shit,” she opined, “because if it had been runny it would have gone in my mouth and my eye. Davies brings to the role his ex-teacher skills honed on Taskmaster to controlling a bunch of fractious kidults.

Although credited to "Ivy Woodcock", the voice of Sue Mucklowe — Kerry's mother, never seen on screen—is provided by Daisy May.

The vicar decides to leave to run a parish in Bristol, and Kerry and Kurtan bid an emotional goodbye to him. It’s a bleak and beautiful drama in which the rare laughs are a matter of survival, like holes punched through the dark. She went viral in 2017, when This Country was new, for telling Romesh Ranganathan about the time she accidentally auditioned to be a stripper. Cooper went on to explain how she ends up in these situations, mostly blaming it on the fact she still feels as though she’s still a teenager. Kerry attempts to establish a new relationship with him while he is temporarily living in a caravan in a field.

It was the sort of show that inspired people to shout its lines at the people who made it; Kerry’s mother, also voiced by Cooper but never seen, had a particular way with the word “tomato”. She stayed in the city for a few months afterwards, but hated it – it was the stripping audition era – and moved back home, where she applied for drama schools.Whenever I got back from classes we made up skits and stupid songs about people we knew from Cirencester. He’s got a really good-looking girlfriend, he’s bought himself a lovely house in Stroud, and he never replies to any of my text messages. Kerry leaves their cage open and they are killed by a fox, while Kurtan becomes impatient with the residents.