Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen?

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders star as respected novelist Florence and movie star Selina, in the second series of this sparkling comedy about two sisters at war, by David Quantick.

The first series of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen? won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and the Comedy.co.uk award for Best Radio Sitcom.

“Thank you, Mr Quantick – this is nigh on perfect” Radio Times

And now Dawn, Jennifer and David return with Series 2.

Episode one: Mummy Dearest Lucy, convinced that her mother is Selina, can’t take any more - she’s going to be an astronaut. Meanwhile, Selina’s off to the Palace to collect her OBE, with a jealous Florence in tow. And Mrs Ragnarrok has applied for Danish citizenship.

Written by David Quantick

Florence - Dawn French Selina - Jennifer Saunders Mrs Ragnarrok – Meera Syal Lucy – Georgia Tennant All the men - Alistair McGowan

Producer: Liz Anstee A CPL production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the
0:03.8	podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.
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0:15.3	What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism
0:19.8	and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.
0:23.7	And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject
0:28.4	you might not even have thought you were interested in.
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0:45.0	And you must be...
0:47.0	Lucy.
0:48.0	Lucy, yes. I must say Lucy if you don't mind me being Frank.
0:54.0	Yes.
0:55.0	You don't look like someone who wants to be an astronaut.
1:00.0	Mrs. Radagnarock!
1:04.0	Mrs Ragnarock!
1:06.0	Yes.
1:07.0	Oh, there you are.
1:08.0	I've been calling for hours.
1:10.0	Mrs Ragnarock.
1:12.0	Yes. You've seen Lucy? No.
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