1. Things Can Only Get Better

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This diary starts in April 1997. Adrian Mole is no longer a spotty teenager, but a balding 30-year-old, recently separated from Jo Jo, the mother of his young son, William. On the eve of the General Election, Adrian returns home to Ashby-de-la-Zouch to vote for the local Labour Party candidate - Pandora Braithwaite - his childhood sweetheart. He is now employed as Head Chef in a restaurant in Soho where there is tinned tomato soup on the "traditional English, no choice" menu. Adrian still has frustrated literary ambitions, but his career is about to take an unexpected turn and throw him into the limelight. Written by Sue Townsend Abridged in ten parts by Sara Davies Producer: Alexa Moore A Pier production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.