Corpus high-level structure
Quick-reference table for the 12 gold-standard Double Acts episodes. Two leads + beginning / middle / end, pulled from the canonical Episode JSONs.
| # | Title | Lead 1 | Lead 2 | Beginning | Middle | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | A Flock of Tigers (27 min) | Edmund Willard (40s, RP) — Emotionally repressed English gentleman | Dr. D.M.A. St. Vincent (Dolores Rosa) (50s, American) — Cunning… | On a 1934 train journey, an unimaginative English bathtub manufacturer is held conversational hostage by an… | Dolores enters Edmund's quiet compartment and continuously challenges his rigid, unimaginative demeanor with… | The announcer delivers the closing credits and production details for the play. |
| 02 | Wysinnwyg (29 min) | Kerry (20s-30s, Midlands) — Machiavellian schemer in a sweet facade | Adele (50s, Northern English) — Deluded petty tyrant middle-manager | A newly hired, seemingly docile assistant secretly orchestrates the systematic professional destruction of… | Adele panics when she discovers Joel has resigned in dramatic fashion. | Kerry reveals she orchestrated Todd's firing and the leak of Joel's appraisal to climb the corporate ladder. |
| 03 | Red-Handed (45 min) | Joel (30s-40s, Standard Southern Britis) — Ineffectual Everyman | Henry (60s-70s, RP) — Bureaucratic Burglar | A man interrupts a burglar in his own home, only to be talked out of calling the police by the thief's… | Joel confronts Henry, an elderly burglar, in the middle of a robbery. | The announcer reads the closing credits for the episode. |
| 04 | The Goliath Window (27 min) | Luke (30s, RP English) — Nervous country parson | Mark (30s, English) — Belligerent one-armed sailor-turned-artist | A vicar attempts to sketch his estranged, seafaring brother as a model for a stained-glass Goliath,… | Reverend Luke Teal enters to find his estranged brother Mark naked, having been hired to model as Goliath… | The announcer reads the closing credits. |
| 05 | English for Pony-Lovers (29 min) | Elke (Middle-aged, German) — Uptight and protective German mother | Lorna (26, Northern English) — Unqualified grifter | A teenage runaway faking a gap year is hired for English lessons by a fastidious German woman who secretly… | Elke and Lorna conduct their English conversation lesson. | The announcer delivers the closing credits for the episode. |
| 06 | Hot Desk (28 min) | Mike (initially Barnaby) (30s, English) — Socially awkward but… | Griselda (initially Sarah) (30s, English) — Bored but cheerful… | Two shift workers sharing a reception desk bicker, bond, and slowly fall in love entirely through frantic… | During a quick morning shift swap, they exchange remarks about their relatively boring weekends. | Mike claims to know Griselda's name from a pub quiz question, but Griselda suspects he just looked it up. |
| 07 | The Queen's Speech (0 min) | Mabel Nesbit (Middle-aged, Working-class London) — No-nonsense Artisan | Queen Victoria (Elderly, RP) — Imperious Monarch | A plain-spoken inventor's widow demonstrates an early audio-recording machine to Queen Victoria, sparking a… | The narrator introduces an unplayable wax cylinder, purportedly the only recording of Queen Victoria's voice. | The narrator introduces an unplayable wax cylinder, purportedly the only recording of Queen Victoria's voice. |
| 08 | Mercy Dash (28 min) | Sue (Elderly, Southern English) — Manipulative sweet old lady | Malcolm (Middle-aged, Southern English / RP) — Put-upon British… | An elderly woman stranded without her car keys guilt-trips the polite stranger who accidentally answered her… | Sue and Malcolm begin their journey. | Malcolm returns to the car, revealing he knew Sue was scamming him all along since she drove the very car… |
| 09 | The Rebel Alliance (28 min) | Eileen (60s, English RP) — Sidelined mother of the bride | Lizzie (30s, Estuary English) — Feisty, cynical outsider | Banished to the loser table at her daughter's wedding, a relentlessly polite mother is coached by a cynical… | A waiter serves the main course. | Eileen is called up for her reading but, encouraged by Lizzie, delivers the heartfelt and slightly chaotic… |
| 10 | Penguin Diplomacy (28 min) | George Bunning (Middle-aged, British RP) — Stiff-upper-lip British… | Sondergaard (Middle-aged, Danish) — Cunning, overly-polite diplomat | Two diplomats from Britain and Denmark discover they are both claiming the same barren rock in the South… | Bunning regretfully tells Sondergaard that their governments have rejected the disputed territory compromise… | Bunning reveals that the island is made of valuable phosphorite, but due to diplomatic maneuvering, neither… |
| 11 | Here's What We Do (47 min) | Pidge (18, Northern English) — Insecure wannabe-mastermind | Gavin (17, Northern English) — Literal-minded, innocent sidekick | A teenager recruits his best friend for an elite, high-stakes black-ops heist at Cambridge University, which… | After returning the dog collar, Pidge dramatically jumps into the river to escape, while Gavin realizes he… | After returning the dog collar, Pidge dramatically jumps into the river to escape, while Gavin realizes he… |
| 12 | The Wroxton Box (28 min) | Alec (20s, Rural Oxfordshire) — Cheeky apprentice | Percy (60s, Rural Oxfordshire) — Crafty veteran mentor | In a remote 1960s railway signal box, a cheeky junior signalman uncovers his pedantic boss's secret poetic… | Alec arrives for his shift and interrogates Percy about his newly dyed mustache and unusually posh socks. | The narrator reads the closing credits over the outro music. |
Generated by src/dump_corpus_leads_structure.py.