The Dagenham Porkchop

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ronny Moffat aka The Dagenham Porkchop, a once superstar wrestler is living on crumbs, working the holiday camp circuit. When his past body-slams back into his life, Ronny has to wrestle with more than just a 20 stone athlete in a leotard.

CAST

Ronny 'The Dagenham Porkchop' Moffat - Robert Glenister

Terry 'The Pharaoh' - Ron Cook

Virginia 'Vampire' Dawson - Lisa Palfrey

Lorraine - Holli Dempsey

Ray 'Elvis' Evans - Dean Rehman

Tom - Dean Coulson

Dickie Davies, Kent Walton, The Holidaymaker - Dick Bradnum

Production Coordinator: Lindsay Rees

Sound Design: Nigel Lewis

Producer: John Norton

A BBC Audio Wales Production

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
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0:10.0	Strange but true crime?
0:11.6	Well, it's got to have a brazen criminal.
0:14.4	The maximum penalty for this is life in prison.
0:16.8	Incredible plot twists.
0:18.5	He started telling me about local village, hitmen.
0:21.5	And one of our super knowledgeable reporters
0:23.7	sharing all the scandalous details.
0:27.0	You hear a car, that's not abnormal.
0:29.1	And then you hear a chainsaw going up against the wooden door.
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0:32.7	Strange but true crime.
0:34.3	With me, Rima Ahmed.
0:36.0	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:38.8	This is Drama of the Week.
1:00.1	No. No. Help him. Please, help him. Please help him.
1:06.0	The Dagenham Pork Chop by Matthew Broughton. A sunny afternoon.
1:13.6	An old man moses Lord.
1:16.6	Life hasn't been a bowl of cherries and every day is still a challenge to him.
1:21.6	But what he doesn't know is that even now in his not-so-salid days, he can still make a difference.
1:30.3	And it's going to be beautiful.
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