Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen? - Radio 4 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?. Image shows from L to R: Florence Ransom (Dawn French), Selina Mountjoy (Jennifer Saunders). Copyright: CPL Productions

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

2020 - 2024

Channel

BBC Radio 4

Episodes

10 (2 series)

Stars

Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Lisa McGrillis, Georgia Tennant, Josette Simon, Rebecca Front, Meera Syal and Alistair McGowan

Writer

David Quantick

Producer

Liz Anstee

Company

Florence Ransom (Dawn French) is a literary novelist, known for the Booker Prize winning Pennant Days. Her sister is Selina Mountjoy (Jennifer Saunders), a movie star and glamorous celebrity.

The two sisters have avoided each other for decades but, when Selina returns to Britain to promote her kiss and tell autobiography Kiss And Tell, the two are forced together once more. As Selina's popularity outweighs Florence's, with big bucks book deals and TV appearances, Florence vents her jealousy at her daughter Lucy and PA Mrs Ragnarrok.

But Selina turns out to be be broke and threatens to reveal her sister's guilty secret unless Florence lets Selina move in with her.

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First broadcast

Thursday 31st December 2020 at 11pm on BBC Radio 4

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