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Drama on 4: Caroline Quentin - My Brilliant Divorce

My Brilliant Divorce

05/09/2013

Caroline Quentin - My Brilliant Divorce

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Caroline Quentin - My Brilliant Divorce

When her husband leaves, Angela learns the ups and downs of being a middle-aged singleton.

4 Extra Debut. When her husband unexpectedly leaves, Angela learns the ups and downs of being a middle-aged singleton. Stars Caroline Quentin.

Caroline Quentin stars in Geraldine Aron's radio adaptation of her Olivier nominated West End hit - a comedy drama about surviving divorce with your sense of humour intact.

Good-natured, slightly overweight, former window-dresser Angela (declared age 39, real age 51) thinks her marriage will last forever. But suddenly her husband Max, who has an irritatingly round head, loses his heart to beautiful young Rosa and moves out.

Cheerful about her unexpected freedom at first, Angela's spirits begin to droop as she copes with a mother who won't acknowledge the break-up because she considers divorce 'common', a misogynous solicitor, and Christmas alone (apart from Dexter the family dog and a number of help-line counsellors).

She gets regular updates on the wild expenditure and goings-on at the love nest via her cleaner, Meena, whose sister Leena - also a cleaner - works for Max. 

As she tells us of the ups and downs of her life and wryly observes how society treats freshly single women of a certain age, Angela learns how to deal with - and even enjoy - life on her own. 

Eccentric, poignant and funny, Angela's journey will resonate with anybody who's lived through a break up.

Written by Geraldine Aron
Producer: Liz Anstee
A CPL production for BBC Radio 4.

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