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Radio 4 Extra,25 Aug 2010,30 mins

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Mum's on the Run

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Mum's on the Run is a modern-day twist on the single-family situation. Starring Ronni Ancona. It follows the hectic life ("What life?") of single mum, Jen. Mother of two, Master of none - Jen seems to spend most of her time as an unpaid chauffeur to a 15 year-old teenage existentialist son, Toby, and a tonally challenged recorder-practising 11 year-old daughter, Felicity. She also has to cope with her jazz musician ex-husband, the fiercely competitive and annoying downstairs neighbour, plus a huge crush on her son's history teacher. How Jen drops the kids off at school at the beginning of the day but ends up collecting them from a nightclub at the end of it. Six-part sitcom written by Alexis Zegerman. Jen ...... Ronni Ancona Mr. Rigby ...... John Gordon Sinclair Shelley ...... Alexis Zegerman Vivienne ...... Christine Kavanagh Keith ...... Kevin Eldon Felicity ...... Amy Dabrowa Toby ...... Alexander Heath Karina ...... Amaya Rowlands Connor ...... Pip Woolley Cashier ...... Iain Batchelor Doorman ...... Jude Akuwudike Leona ...... Sam Dale Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2010.

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