Fags, Mags and Bags
| Genre | Comedy |
|---|---|
| Running time | 30 minute episodes |
| Country |
 United Kingdom
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| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
| Starring |
Sanjeev Kohli Donald McLeary Susheel Kumar Omar Raza |
| Directed by |
Iain Davidson Colin Gilbert |
| Produced by | Gus Beattie |
| Air dates | 1 October, 2007 to 23 May, 2016 |
| No. of series | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 36 |
| Audio format | Stereophonic sound |
| Website | Fags, Mags and Bags homepage |
Fags, Mags and Bags is a Scottish radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Its first series was nominated for a Sony Radio Award.
The writers, Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary, received a Writers Guild Award in November 2008 for Radio Comedy of the Year.
The theme music for the show was "Smiling" by the Beta Band.
On 4 October, 2013 it was announced on the Official Facebook page that the episode "Meter Reading Chic" would be the final episode of the show. On 4 January, 2016 however, it was announced that following a hiatus of three years the show would be returning for a sixth series, that was recorded in February and broadcast in April of that year. The series started on 18 April, 2016.
Recurring guest cast:
Ramesh Majhu
Ramesh is a middle-aged shopkeeper, born in India but a long-term resident of the Glasgow suburb of Lenzie. He has been the proprietor of the local convenience store Fags, Mags & Bags for over 30 years. In the episode 'Evil Narbara' from series four, Ramesh reveals that he opened the store on the same day the Double Decker chocolate bar was launched. This would place the opening of Fags, Mags & Bags to 1976.
Ramesh pursues his chosen career in low-return retail with a near religious zeal, possessing an encyclopaedic knowledge of product lines and a deft line in banter, seeing his shop as a microcosm of life. Twenty years hard "shop" has earned Ramesh a tan Mercedes and a pair of mushroom-coloured tasselled loafers.
Despite a ceaseless quest for the secondary purchase, and organising a fictional festival solely to boost sales, Ramesh seems to genuinely have his customers' interests at heart. He is popular with fellow shopkeepers; chairing the local Traders' Association, and also won the coveted 'Shopkeeper of the Year Award' in the Small-to-Medium Retail Concern category in Series 2.
Ramesh is a widower, having married his wife in an arranged marriage during the 1960s. By the end of series 5 Ramesh had begun a relationship with a lady called Malcolm, and they are still an item at the start of series 6.
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