All the Small Things - Season 1 (2009)

With the newly-wed Radics gone, Michael's choir is struggling, somewhat to the amusement of reluctant accompanist Monica, so Ethel Tonks, having declared the Serbs' church art designs as "sacriligious",brings her relatives in as reinforcements. Olive, Esther's best friend and a prime mover in the breakaway group, enters All the Small Things for the North West choral heats, where they do well, despite Layla's efforts to sabotage their transport, and even Michael is impressed. He is less enamoured of Layla's insistence that they start a family of their own and Georgia, ...

After Monica's brother Edgar, an ageing rocker, drops down dead at his 60th birthday bash, it is revealed that Monica and Ethel are actually sisters,who have barely spoken to each other in twenty years and, whilst Ethel inevitably demands a conventional funeral, Edgar's last wish is for a hard rock ceremony. Monica holds the ace card by divulging that she and Gilbert were once lovers, and Edgar's wishes are honoured. Ethel acquires some dignity with her acceptance of all this but Layla's 'family' dinner party goes awry when Michael defends Kyle's faddy eating habits. ...

Jake is upset when Esther berates him for not explaining before that Layla was his sister and the vicious Layla, failing to gain Jake's sympathy, sends an anonymous letter, exposing her brother's former alcoholism. Ethel and Gilbert want him sacked but, after a hung vote, the not so dusty vicar persuades Layla to redeem herself and save Jake's job. Grace and Kyle run away and Esther and Michael locate them at an old holiday haunt - Michael wants reconciliation but Esther explains that she is now a free woman. At the choir finals Esther is shocked when All the Small ...