Georgie admits that mistakes spiral out of control when “some of the pages are missing” from your manual.
1. Wooden Overcoats Season 4 Episode 6, “Radio Drama,” places Georgie Cruces at the centre of a funeral crisis in Piffling Vale.
2. Georgie works for Rudyard Fun, Jennifer Delacroix runs Piffling FM, and Eric Chapman operates the rival funeral business that stages the day’s funeral.
3. The episode asks whether Georgie can protect Rudyard while Jennifer reports the consequences of his accidental sabotage.
4. Eric Chapman stages Dorothy Scruple’s mother’s funeral at the Piffling Fairground with ice sculptures and a noisy public celebration.
5. Dorothy Scruple says her 105-year-old mother hated people and had lived alone in a cottage on the cliffs.
6. Dorothy says a collapsed wall revealed rats that had lived inside the cottage and eaten her mother down to the bones.
7. Rudyard slips on melting ice and accidentally propels Madeline toward Dorothy Scruple’s face during the funeral.
8. Jennifer Delacroix reports that villagers believe Fun Funerals is the source of a devastating rat plague.
9. The villagers surround Fun Funerals with an angry mob and an inflatable rat bearing Rudyard’s face.
10. Georgie visits Agatha Doyle for help, but Agatha has joined the mob and leads chants of “Blonde Supreme.”
11. Jennifer says Piffling FM receives 52 callers in one hour after she begins covering the incident.
12. The mob remains outside Fun Funerals for seven days while the trapped characters survive on onion peels and coffee grains.
13. Jennifer’s coverage shifts from facts to absurd speculation about Rudyard being a rat-human hybrid sent by aliens.
14. Georgie admits that she feels unable to handle people effectively when situations genuinely matter.
15. Georgie describes mistakes as events that become uncontrollable when “some of the pages are missing” from your manual.
16. The broadcast reaches every potential listener on the island, giving Jennifer a reported 100 percent audience.
17. The episode uses ensemble radio drama, overlapping arguments, mock news reports, and fictional advertisements such as “Rudyard the Rat King.”
18. Its tone moves between dark comedy, relationship conflict, mob farce, and a live Piffling FM interview.
19. Fans of dark comedy and ensemble audio fiction.
20. Listeners seeking factual news or unscripted interviews may skip.
