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Book at Bedtime: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

Harry McEntire

Sue Townsend

Sara Davies

Alexa Moore

Book at Bedtime: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4: Episode 5

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

Episode 5

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4, Episode 5

A new family arrives in the street just in time to celebrate the royal wedding.

A new family arrives in the street just in time to celebrate the royal wedding. Absence makes the heart grow fonder for Adrian and Pandora.

Sue Townsend's hilarious and heart breaking chronicle of a teenager growing up in the Midlands in the 1980s. A brand new serialisation, read by Harry McEntire, in the year that Adrian Mole himself turns 50.

It's 1981 and Margaret Thatcher is in power, Britain is at war in the Falklands and teenagers are growing up in a world without mobile phones or computer games. While his parents are downstairs, drinking, smoking and arguing about their failing marriage, Adrian is upstairs in his bedroom listening to Abba, reading great works of literature, writing poems, and penning letters to the BBC.

Despite the many challenges that life throws at him - including regular beatings from the school bully, unrequited love, raging hormones, a severe case of acne and numerous rejection letters - Adrian soldiers on bravely and wins a place in our hearts with his charming naïveté. 

Reader: Harry McEntire 
Abridger: Sara Davies
Producer: Alexa Moore

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Sue Townsend's chronicle of a teenager growing up in the Midlands.

Sue Townsend's chronicle of a teenager growing up in the Midlands. Read by Harry McEntire. Abridged by Sara Davies.

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