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Mum's on the Run

1. Mum Taxi

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 7 months

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. Show less

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