Postman Pat's Radio Greendale

Postman Pat's Radio Greendale

Air Date	15th March 2006
Previous	Postman Pat and the Tricky Transport Day
Next	Postman Pat the Secret Superhero

Postman Pat's Radio Greendale is the thirteenth episode of Postman Pat Season 4. It was written by Rachel Dawson.

Plot[]

Pat is taking his last parcel to the school. Charlie is waiting eagerly for the parcel and as soon as he gets it inside the school, he opens it to reveal a microphone for a new radio station. He plugs the microphone into the control panel, gives it to Julian and he and Meera go outside to see if they can hear him. Julian talks into the microphone and Charlie and Meera can hear his voice coming through on the portable radio. They decide to all set up a radio station called Radio Greendale by next Saturday.

When Saturday arrives, Charlie runs round to Pat's house and invites him to the school for an interview on Radio Greendale.

At the school, all the other children so eager and busy with getting the radio station ready that they end up leaving Charlie with nothing to do (Even though the whole idea of the project was his). So he sadly mopes off to go and do something else.

As soon as Pat finishes his rounds, he quickly goes to the school for his interview. By now Pat has started to become a little bit nervous about what he has to do and as Bill introduces him, he accidentally leans on the controls and makes his voice sound funny on every radio all over Greendale. The children try to put it right flicking buttons at random, but only end up making it worse. They then realise that only Charlie will be able to help them as it was he who set up the radio station in the first place. Pat goes looking for Charlie in the van and finds him sitting alone by the river. Pat tells Charlie that they need him and when they arrive back at the school, this statement turns out to be true. Quickly Charlie takes charge of the situation and makes sure everyone is doing their right jobs.

Once everything is back on track, Bill gives a special interview with Charlie about making the radio station. Charlie tells all the listeners that the most important thing about running a successful radio station is working together as a team.

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Cast[]

Ken Barrie as Pat, Ted and Mr. Pringle
Melissa Sinden as Jess and Bonnie
Carole Boyd as Sara Clifton, Mrs. Goggins, Sarah Gilbertson, Charlie and the Radio Speaker
Janet James as Julian and Lucy
Kulvinder Ghir as Bill and Tom
Archie Panjabi as Katy and Meera

Trivia[]

Going by production order, this is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season.
Some of the sheep from Season 1 appear amongst the flock.
Gran's knitting needles and parts of her scarf for her house from the "Gran" episode "Gran Knits" and the ball of string from Katy and Tom's kite from Postman Pat Follows a Trail can be seen in the school before the children got ready for Radio Greendale.
The song from Postman Pat's Popstars is heard on the radio in Pat's kitchen.
The cream radio from "Gran" is used as Pat's radio.

Goofs[]

Radio Greendale already existed before this episode according to Postman Pat has the Best Village.
When the children first start dancing to the music on the control panel, Mr. Pringle disappears from his place in the class room.
When Pat leaves the breakfast table, Jess is in his basket even though he was not seen there before that.
When Bill tests out his DJ voice on the microphone, it is not plugged in.
Throughout the episode, Katy and Tom's eyebrows keep disappearing.
The breakfast cereal seen in the kitchen scene is clearly Kellogg's Corn Flakes with the graphics censored out.
When Bill introduces Pat, Pat has no eyebrows and you can see the gab where his wrist and arm are joined together.
For some reason, the sheep are grazing on the Green in the village.
When Julian wonders where Charlie is, he has suddenly taken his jacket off and tied it around his waist for some unknown reason.
When Ted arrives at the post office, the clock reads 2.55. When Sara is at the post office, it is a few minutes after 3.00. All the events that happened in between those two times would have realistically taken more than just over five minutes to do.