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Why Mummy Swears by Gill Sims

4. Christmas

Duration: 14 minutes

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

Ellen is juggling a full-time job, her family and the PTA.

Her work don’t even know that she has children.

The pressure is on.

And the last thing she needs is to spend Christmas with her judgmental mother and her smug step-sister.

Gill Sims’ second comic novel about Ellen, a funny, feisty and stressed-out working-mum.

Ellen ...… Gabriel Quigley
Simon …... Stuart McQuarrie
Mother …... Anne Lacey
Sarah / Lydea ...… Isobel McArthur
Kathy ...… Sally Reid
Alan ...… Jordan Young

Dramatised by Christine Entwisle.

Directed by Kirsty Williams.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2020. Show less

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